Yukon Sports Report

Sass also won the YQ350 earlier this month in Fairbanks

Yukon musher Nathaniel Hamlyn won the Yukon Quest 100 early this morning, reaching the finish line in Braeburn at 5:39 a.m. on Feb. 20, 2022. “I’m really proud of how my team did,” Hamlyn said. “When I came into this I thought, ‘OK, it’s 100 miles but it’s a long 100 miles.’ I always try and not think it’s easy.

The Yukon Quest 300 and Yukon Quest 100 races both got underway at Shipyards Park in Whitehorse the afternoon of Feb. 19, 2022. Teams left the starting chute in three minute intervals beginning at 3 p.m., with YQ300 mushers leaving first and YQ100 mushers starting immediately after. Mushers in the YQ100 have roughly 50 miles (80 kilometres) to time station

The second wave of Yukon Quest races, the Yukon Quest 300 and the Yukon Quest 100, are both scheduled to start at 3 p.m. on Feb. 19, 2022, from Shipyards Park in Whitehorse. It was also a busy day on Feb. 18, with teams going through vet checks for the dogs during the day and wrapping with a mushers meeting

The Yukon Quest 350 came to a conclusion the morning of Feb. 9, 2022, in Fairbanks, Alaska, when Jennifer LaBar and her team reached the finish chute downtown in fourth place to win the Red Lantern as the last team to finish the race. Roughly 24 hours earlier, Brent Sass won the race, while Matt Hall placed second and Deke

Veteran musher Brent Sass won the Yukon Quest 350 at approximately 6 a.m. on Feb. 8, 2022, in Fairbanks, Alaska, with all 14 dogs still on the line. The team was led into the finish chute by Morello and Lucy, where a couple dozen spectators had woken up early and braved the -20 C temperatures to see the finish. Sass

Wind, blowing snow help Eagle Summit live up to reputation

The 2022 YQ350 and YQ200 races started Feb. 5 in Fairbanks, Alaska, at 11 a.m. local time on an overcast morning with temperatures hovering around -15 C. Racing started with the seven mushers in the 350-mile (560-kilometre) race making the steep descent from the Big I parking lot down into a sweeping left turn onto the Chena River as hundreds

Getting up to speed before the start of the Yukon Quest