Ryan redington biography
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Meet Ryan Redington
Junior Iditarod Winner
| Name: Kennel Name: Birthplace: Home Town: Occupation: E-mail: | Ryan Redington Redington's Mush Alaska Kennels Anchorage, Alaska Knik, Alaska Student and a full time musher hotmusher@ |
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Ryan winning the Jr. Iditarod
Introduction
I come from a mushing family. On my Mother's side my great-grandfather, Frank Ryan, an Inupiat Eskimo, delivered U.S. mail from Unalakleet to other villages by dog team. On my father's side my grandfather Joe Redington Sr. started the Iditarod in He has raced in the Iditarod 19 times. was his last Iditarod and he finished 36th place out of 54 mushers at 80 years old. My father, Raymie, has ran in 11 Iditarods and my uncle, Joee, ran in two Iditarods. My brother Ray and his wife, Julia, have both competed in the Jr. Iditarod before. Now they have 30 dogs of their own and race in mid-distance races. Both my unc
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Two-time Beargrease champion Ryan Redington wins Iditarod
Ryan Redington on Tuesday won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, bringing his six dogs off the Bering Sea ice to the finish line on Nome’s main street.
Redington, 40, is the grandson of Joe Redington Sr., who helped co-found the arduous race across Alaska that was first held in and is known as the “Father of the Iditarod.”
“My grandpa, dad and Uncle Joee are all in the Mushing entré of Fame. I got big footsteps to follow,” Ryan Redington wrote in his race biography. He previously won the Junior Iditarod in and His father, Raymie, is a time Iditarod finisher.
Redington is well known in the mushing scene, including bygd his peers in Cook County. He is a two-time mästare of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon that ends in Cook County.
Redington, who is Inupiat, becomes the sixth Alaska Native musher to win the world’s most famous sled dog race. After crossing the finish in Nome around p.m., he said it has been
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Ryan Redington
American dog musher (born )
Ryan Redington is interviewed by the media after winning the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska. | |
| Full&#;name | Ryan Hunter Redington |
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| Born | () June 29, (age&#;42) Knik, Alaska, United States[1] |
| Occupation | Dog musher |
| Children | 2 |
| Country | United States |
| Sport | Dogsled racing |
| Event | Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
Ryan Redington (born June 29, ) is an American dog musher and dog sled racer from Alaska. Redington was the winner of the 1,mile (1,&#;km) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in [2]
His grandfather, Joe Redington Sr., is known as the “Father of the Iditarod” for co-founding the 1, mile race in , and helping to establish the route as a National Historic Trail.[1]