Iditarod's first champion Dick Wilmarth has died

  

(KTUU)

By Sean Maguire

Published: Mar. 26, 2018 at 4:27 AM CEST

The first champion of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has died.

Richard "Dick" Wilmarth was a musher, miner and trapper from Red Devil, a tiny town on the Kuskokwim River.

Wilmarth won the first running of the Iditarod in 1973 in a time of 20 days, 49 minutes, 41 seconds. The first race was to be the only time Wilmarth would run Iditarod.

This is a developing story and will be updated 

 

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