Edited answer:
I don't know who keeps answering Eddie Kilgore over and over on this question, but it is an insult to the real man who was the oldest to finish the Iditarod, Colonel Norman Vaughn who finished the race at age 86. Norman was a WWII war hero and ran the race 4 times.
Norman Vaughan
Jeff King Is the oldest musher to run the Iditarod By Emily Elizabeth Wells Close Emily. Jeff King was the oldest to win, but Colonel Norman Vaughn was the oldest to finish the race at age 86.
Joe Redington
mong terry
Colonel Norman Vaughn at age 86.
Who are the oldest and youngest players to complete in the Iditarod?
the closets finish in the iditarod was in 1961, when two sleders where 2 seconds apart.
98
6 dogs at the finish
Dallas Seavey, in 2005, just one day after turning 18.
Norman Vaughan
1978