Photos: Top Iditarod finishers race into Nome

Cheering crowds, sunshine and a well-deserved break awaited mushers as they crossed the Iditarod finish line.

By Loren Holmes, Emily Mesner
Updated: March 15, 2023 Published: March 15, 2023

Iditarod competitor Matt Hall mushes near Fort Davis, about five miles from the finish line, during the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 in Nome. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Matt Hall mushes down Front Street on his way to finishing the race on Tuesday. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Wheel dogs on Matt Hall’s team rest as Hall is interviewed by members of the media shortly after crossing the Iditarod finish line in Nome on Tuesday. Hall placed fourth. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Ryan Redington mushes down Front Street in Nome to win the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. Redington comes from a storied mushing family — his grandfather Joe Redington, Sr. was instrumental in pulling together the first race in 1973 — but Ryan is the first musher from his family to win the nearly 1,000-mile race. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Ryan Redington poses with his lead dogs Sven, left, and Ghost, after he won the 2023 Iditarod on Tuesday. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Madelyn Dettwiller, 10, stands near the finish line as she waits for Ryan Redington to arrive into Nome during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. Dettwiller is a musher and plans on running the Junior Iditarod once she is old enough. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Target and Delmer lead Pete Kaiser’s team off of the trail in Nome after the team finished in second place on Tuesday. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Pete Kaiser talks with friends and fans after his 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race finish in Nome on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Musher Pete Kaiser hugs his team after they took second place in the 2023 Iditarod. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

People watch Ryan Redington receive awards after crossing the finish line and winning the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Richie Diehl mushes down front street to finish in third place in the 2023 Iditarod on Tuesday. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Richie Diehl talks with the media after finishing in third place in Nome. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

A woman holds a sign for musher Richie Diehl and cheers for him as he approaches the Iditarod finish line in Nome on Tuesday. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Bruiser, one of Richie Diehl’s lead dogs rests after his team finished in third place on Tuesday. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Nicole Borromeo takes a selfie with Cheryl “Ducky” Johnson near the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race finish line in Nome on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. Borromeo and Johnson, from McGrath and Nome, decided to fly from Anchorage where they live to watch the finish once they found out that the top three mushers were Alaska Native. “This is a different level of excitement,” Borromeo said. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Ryan Redington, left, smiles for a selfie with Kevin Nayokpuk, second from left, after he won the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 in Nome. Nayokpuk’s great uncle Herbie Nayokpuk was an Inupiaq musher who competed in many Iditarods, including the first in 1973, and earned the nickname “Shishmaref Cannonball” for his unique mushing style. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Ryan Redington signs a fan’s hoodie after winning the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Sarah Keefer, kennel manager for Ryan Redington, smiles at him as they walk down from the finish line in Nome on Tuesday. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

People line Front Street in Nome and cheer for Ryan Redington as he mushes towards the finish line on Tuesday. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Kids play on a snow pile as they wait for Ryan Redington to arrive into Nome during the 2023 Iditarod. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Demi and Bruiser lead Richie Diehl’s team down Front Street in Nome on Tuesday. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Nome residents Asaaluk Nichols and Bantu Nichols stand with their children, Yaka, 4, Dallimat, 6, and Cimminaq, 10, as they watch 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Ryan Redington mush down Front Street and to the finish line in Nome on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Gigi stays warm in her owner’s coat as they stand near the Iditarod finish line in Nome on Tuesday. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Iditarod volunteers Doris Owens, left, and Jill Murray light the “Widow’s Lamp” and hang it above the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race finish line arch in Nome on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. Murray is visiting from Ohio and planned this trip as a 50th birthday present for herself. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Matt Hall mushes near Fort Davis, about five miles from the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Mileage markers and notes from friends and family are written on a bag attached to Matt Hall’s sled, photographed at the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. Hall placed fourth. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Elke Konetski embraces her partner and Iditarod musher Matt Hall after he crossed the finish line in Nome on Tuesday. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Loren Holmes

Loren Holmes is a staff photojournalist at the Anchorage Daily News. Contact him at loren@adn.com.

Emily Mesner

Emily Mesner is a multimedia journalist for the Anchorage Daily News. She previously worked for the National Park Service at Denali National Park and Preserve and the Western Arctic National Parklands in Kotzebue, at the Cordova Times and at the Jackson Citizen Patriot in Jackson, Michigan.