After Matt Hall and Jessie Holmes took second and third place, the top mushers this year included veterans and a second-year racer.
Second place musher Matt Hall looks over his team after finishing the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. with a record sixth Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race win, a pair of strong perennial contenders followed the champion into Nome.
Jessie Holmes, who mushes out of Brushkana, followed Hall in third place for his third-straight top-five finish. Holmes, who has run the last seven Iditarods, was contemplative when considering his place in the standings. A trio of mushers arrived early Wednesday, led by Fairbanks’ Jeff Deeter, who made a hard charge down the stretch to finish fourth.“I think we were all kind of suffering from some nerves in the first two days of the race,” Deeterat the finish. “The dogs had a little stomach bug, it just kind of passed through pretty quickly. I think rest really paid off. Because they weren’t taking in the fuel, I had to add in some rest, and that paid dividends the second half of the race.
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