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NOME, Alaska (AP) - Dallas Seavey won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday evening, becoming the youngest musher to win the nearly 1,000-mile race across Alaska.

Seavey turned 25 on March 4, the day the race officially started north of Anchorage. He was the first musher to reach Nome, his nine dogs trotting into the Bering Sea coastal community at 7:29 p.m. Tuesday.

The winner greeted family and friends briefly, then turned to hug his dogs.

"They mean the world to me,'' Seavey said.

He finished in nine days, four hours and 29 minutes.

The previous youngest winner was the race's only five-time champion, Rick Swenson, who won his first Iditarod at the age of 26 in 1977. Swenson, now 61, is in this year's race, and was running in the middle of the pack.

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From Anchorage Daily News

Dallas Seavey, a third generation Iditarod musher, became the youngest champion in race history Tuesday.

Seavey, 25, reached the finish line in Nome at 7:29 to win the 975-mile race that began March 3 in Anchorage.

Kicking all the way down Front Street, Seavey arrived behind a team of nine dogs. He crossed under the burled arch to cheers from the crowd and hugs from family and friends. Then he walked the length of his team, stopping to give each dog a pet and a snack.

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