We have a winner! Brent Sass has won the 2022 Iditarod, pulling his team of 11 dogs under the burled arch in Nome at 5:38 a.m. this morning.
Sass never trailed after passing Seavey on the trail just past the Ophir checkpoint Wednesday morning, which lies 623 miles from Nome. Sass spent his 24-hour layover Wednesday night through Thursday in Cripple.
The Minnesota-born musher who moved to Alaska over 20 years ago and has lived in Eureka since 2012 has had a checkered past racing the Iditarod, one of Alaska’s biggest and most widely-known sporting events. Sass finished 13th in 2012 to win the Rookie of the Year award, then had two strong runs derailed in 2015 and 2016.
Sass was disqualified in 2015 for using a iPod Touch, which was considered a two-way communication device by race officials and therefore illegal to use. The next year, he was running third at the White Mountain checkpoint, just 77 miles from the end, when his dog team refused to continue on, dropping him to a 20th-place result at the finish.
In 2020, Sass finished fourth in the race, then followed it up with a third-place run last year, setting himself up as one of the race favorites in 2022. Sass has had plenty of success in dog mushing in Alaska with three Yukon Quest 1,000-mile wins, as well as both sides of the Quest this year, which was split between Alaska and Canada. Both races in 2022 were shortened, with the Alaska route measuring 350 miles and the Canadian route going 300. Sass had also won his first Copper Basin 300 in January.
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