Iditarod 2020 – Day 16 & Final

After everything that’s happen Martin Buser left White Mountain with all 14 puppies that were pulling when he left Willow. Deke and Laura are down to 7 pups. The next challenge will be the trail around Safety and the overflow.

Kaci Murringer blew out the Red Lantern at 3:29.45 CDT finishing after 13 days 22 hours 29 minutes and 45 seconds.

Standings at 3:45PM CDT (12:45PM AKDT):

Finished at Nome
(First 20 below the fold)
21 Lance Mackey (12)
22 Jessica Klejka (41)
23 Lev Shvarts (10)
24 Grayson Bruton (51)^R
25 Martin Buser (26)
26 Riley Dyche (48)^R
27 Magnus Kaltenborn (38)
28 Deke Naaktgeboren (14)^Q
29 Dennis Kananowicz (53)
30 Fabio Berlusconi (6)^R
31 Monica Zappa (43)
32 Laura Neese (11)
33 Damon Ramaker (52)^R
34 Kaci Murringer (57)^RΦ

Top 20:
1 Thomas Waerner (40)
2 Mitch Seavey (27)
3 Jessie Royer (31)
4 Brent Sass (44)
5 Aaron Burmeister (25)
6 Joar Leifseth Ulsom (35)
7 Paige Drobny (58)
8 Ryan Redington (37)
9 Jessie Holmes (34)
10 Travis Beals (20)
11 Ramey Smyth (5)
12 Wade Marrs (7)
13 Michelle Phillips (33)
14 Peter Kaiser (9)
15 Mille Porsild (32)^R
16 Jeff Deeter (24)
17 Kelly Maixner (22)
18 Aliy Zirkle (23)
19 Tom Frode Johansen (39)^Q
20 Tim Pappas (3)

The Mushers in bold are former winners of the Iditarod, while italics indicates Yukon Quest winners. The numbers in parentheses are their Bib numbers. The small “R” indicates a total rookie, while the small “Q” indicates an Iditarod rookie who has completed a Yukon Quest.

These are the official standings. That means they are official, not that they are correct. Things jump around a lot as people decide to update the standings. This problem is especially bad in the back of the pack, as no one bothers to update those standings when the lead is changing.

This post will be updated during the day, and the map changed on all posts to reflect the current situation.

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