A number of Iditarod XXXV race fans were up early to welcome four time Iditarod Champion Martin Buser (Bib # 19) to Nome Alaska at 4:07 am (Alaska Time). Buser arrived in Nome with 10 dogs on his team. The Big Lake Alaska musher stayed at the front of the pack throughout the race making it to Nome in nine days, thirteen hours, seven minutes and four seconds. Buser led the race coming out of Rainy Pass and arriving first in McGrath on the banks of the Kuskokwim River. He and four time Iditarod Champion Jeff King were neck and neck through the early part of race.