Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher, 51, has lost her battle with leukemia. She died Saturday in a Seattle hospital of complications from a recent stem-cell transplant.
In 1986, Ms. Butcher became the second woman to win the grueling dogsled race from Anchorage to Nome. She added victories in 1987, 1988 and 1990 and finished in the top four through 1993.
Ms. Butcher ran her last Iditarod in 1994 when she decided to have children. She has two daughters, Tekla and Chisana, with her husband, attorney and musher David Monson.
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