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NOME, Alaska, March 15 (UPI) -- Veteran sled-dog racer Jeff King became the oldest man to win the annual 1,100-mile Iditarod race Wednesday with a time of nine days, 11 hours, 11 minutes.
It was the fourth victory in the Alaskan challenge for King, who turned 50 a month ago, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
King and his 12 dogs' time was more than seven hours faster than last year's champion Norwegian Robert Sorlie.
This year, mushers faced all of Alaska's extremes, from deep snow in the mountains, 50-degree-below-zero cold in the interior and winds near the coast strong enough to blow sleds off the trail.
Doug Swingley of Lincoln, Mont., backed off his pursuit of King on Tuesday to spare exhausting or injuring his dogs, and settled for second place.
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