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Lance Mackey

American sled-dog racer
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Melissa Albert was a research editor at Encyclopædia Britannica. Her first novel, The Hazel Wood (2018), was a New York Times bestseller.
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Born:
June 2, 1970, Alaska, U.S.
Died:
September 7, 2022 (aged 52)

Lance Mackey (born June 2, 1970, Alaska, U.S.—died September 7, 2022) was an American sled dog racer who was the first person to win four consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races (2007–10). Mackey, the son of champion musher Dick Mackey, grew up in Alaska, where he was exposed to dogsled racing from an early age. When he was a toddler, his father helped found the Iditarod Trail Seppala Memorial Race (later named the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race), which stretched about 1,100 miles (1, 770 km) between the Alaskan cities of Anchorage and Nome. The event became the sport’s foremost ...(100 of 532 words)

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