Musher Paige Drobny of Fairbanks won the Point d’Appui in the 2014 Iditarod, finishing 25th among 49 finishers.
Twenty racers abandoned the race before reaching Nome in the 1,049-mile dog sled race
Drobny, 40, finished the 2013 Iditarod seven places behind the fulcrum, but improved her overall time by more than 13 hours this year to gain the Point d’Appui.
Dallas Seavey of Willow, Alaska, won the Iditarod, finishing in a little over 8 and a half days and claiming a $50,400 prize.
Marcelle Fressineau of White Horse, Yukon Territory, was the Lanterne Rouge, finishing in more than 13 days.
Katherine Keith of Yes Kotzebue had the time closest to the median, finishing in 10 days, 20 hours, 43 minutes and 15 seconds.
Drobny moved to Fairbanks for graduate studies in fisheries oceanography in 2005. She is a fisheries biologist, and she and her husband build dogsleds for their company, DogPaddle Designs. For her finish, Drobny won $6,800.