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	Doug Swingley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Doug Swingley (born May 14, 1953) is an American dog musher and dog sled racer from Lincoln, Montana, who is a four-time winner of the 1,049-mile Iditarod sled dog race across Alaska.
		Swingley pulled out of the 2004 Iditarod because of frostbite in his corneas (eyes).
		Musher and dog breeder, Doug Swingley, 52, was born in Montana.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doug_Swingley (307 words)

	Cabela's Iditarod - Mushers - Doug Swingley Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Recent reports are that Doug's eyes are improving, and he has once again entered the race that has captured and riveted his life to the runners for so many years.
		Doug had announced his retirement in 2002 and married his sweetheart, Melanie Shirilla under the Burled Arch in Nome.
		Doug dominated the 2000 race, winning the Halfway Award, First to the Yukon Award and Gold Coast Award as he became the fifth musher in race history to win three championships.
	www.cabelasiditarod.com /mushers/swingleyd.html (504 words)

	Ramy Brooks - Iditarod 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Doug Swingley is a guy that a lot of people love to hate, especially bitter Alaskans who don't like seeing the fellow from Montana walk away with the title each year.
		I was as ready as anyone to see an Alaskan beat Doug Swingley (especially Ramy), but you have to admire the man who in a few short years completely dominated the Iditarod.
		Doug Swingley is doing what many of his competitors only dream of...enjoying the scenery and visiting every checkpoint along the way.
	www.ramybrooks.com /I2002/Swingley_Editorial.htm (624 words)

	Crow Village Iditarod Blog
		Swingley is hoping that King has pushed his team too hard and he will catch them when they start to slow on the coast.
		Doug Swingley has reached the halfway point at Cripple, and other teams have started taking their 24 hour layovers further back.
		Doug begins his third season returning from retirement, and we don't typically see Doug race in Alaska prior to the Iditarod, so this will be a rare opportunity to see how he stacks up against some of the top teams.
	feyer.freeshell.org /iditarodblog.html (8465 words)

	Cabela's Iditarod - Archive - 2002 Pre-Race Coverage: Doug Swingley -The Greatest Ever? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Doug's training regime is based on a year-round concept of physical and mental exercise.
		The prospect for a 5th Iditarod victory is in the path of momentum of Swingley's recent victories and undiminished by distractions.
		Swingley, like Susan Butcher in l988, is poised to win a record four in a row and tie Swenson's all time record of five Iditarods.
	www.cabelasiditarod.com /coverage_2002/prerace_article0201.html (2242 words)

	ESPN.com - MORESPORTS - Swingley breaks his own Iditarod record
		As Swingley was planning for this year's race, he calculated that if everything went perfectly, it would take him 8 days, 17 hours to get from Anchorage to Nome.
		Swingley broke out of the pack early in the race, pushing himself far ahead of the other frontrunners before taking his 24-hour break.
		Swingley decided to try and break his own record finish time when he reached the Koyuk checkpoint, 171 miles from the finish line.
	espn.go.com /moresports/news/2000/0314/424504.html (696 words)

	ADN.com \| IDITAROD 33: 2000 Race Stories
		The "bootie horn" is the doggie equivalent of a "shoe horn." A semicircular plastic tube with a rope leash and an elastic strap that a musher can wear around his or her wrist to keep the device from disappearing in the snow, the bootie horn costs $12.
		Defending champion Doug Swingley, looking leaner and fitter than ever, pulled away from downtown Anchorage and headed to Nome on Saturday behind a dog team he said is the best he's ever been part of.
		Swingley, the two-time winner from Montana who is the only Outside musher to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, views himself as part of the gang, if not the gangline.
	www.adn.com /iditarod/history/2000/race (2189 words)

	Iditarod
		Doug Swingley, a former mink rancher, won the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in March 2000 finishing in 9 days and 58 minutes.
		Swingley won $60,000 of a $525,000 purse, a new pickup truck and became the fifth musher to win the Iditarod more than once.
		Swingley also won Minnesota's Grand Portage Passage Sled Dog Race in January 2000 and is a two-time Beargrease Marathon Champion (1994 and 1996).
	www.furcommission.com /news/newsF01b.htm (674 words)

	CNN/SI - More Sports - Swingley breezes to 1999 Iditarod victory - Wednesday March 17, 1999 02:04 PM
		Swingley, from Lincoln, Mont., reached the finish line of the 1,100-mile sled dog race at 1:31 a.m.
		Swingley's victory margin stands to be the widest since 1992, when Buser finished more than 10 hours ahead of runner-up Susan Butcher.
		Swingley borrowed from a race strategy that worked for him in 1995 -- go further than the pack before taking his mandatory 24-hour rest, and then outrun everyone else to the Bering Sea coast.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /more/news/1999/03/17/iditarod_swingley (641 words)

	NIE Hot Topic
		Swingley said this year's race is his victory lap and plans to take in the scenery along the trail.
		Swingley said he had made up his mind almost a year ago to step back from the race, but wanted a victory lap to enjoy the scenery and the people on his trip up the trail.
		Swingley's competitive instincts, though, made it difficult to hold back during the first few days of the race.
	www.missoulian.com /NIE/topics/fun-030802.html (690 words)

	ABC News: Swingley Keeps Iditarod Lead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Doug Swingley Keeps Iditarod Lead As Mushers Head to Town Of Four time Iditarod champion Doug Swingley runs his team up the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race trail near Nikolai, Alaska Tuesday, March 7, 2006.
		Four-time winner Doug Swingley of Lincoln, Mont., held his lead as the first musher to leave from the checkpoint in the riverside village of Nikolai.
		Swingley was the first musher to arrive at Takotna, which is 418 miles from Anchorage.
	abcnews.go.com /Sports/wireStory?id=1700204&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (427 words)

	Swingley makes it three straight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		NOME, Alaska —; Doug Swingley won his third straight Iditarod sled dog race early Wednesday, a win he said was made special by tough conditions on the 1,100-mile trail from Anchorage.
		Swingley, who won his fourth overall Iditarod, drove his dog team 1,100 miles through the Alaska wilderness to reach Nome at 6:55 a.m., finishing the race in nine days, 19 hours,55 minutes.
		Swingley said his winning formula hinges on the relationship he has with his dogs.
	www.bouldernews.com /sports/misc/a341731a.html (291 words)

	ESPN.com - MORESPORTS - Swingley wins Iditarod again
		Doug Swingley drives his dog team across the frozen Golovin Bay en route to his Iditarod victory Wednesday.
		Swingley ran nearly the same race he did in 2000 and 1999.
		Swingley disputes the notion that he does not have to rest his dogs as long as other competitors.
	espn.go.com /moresports/news/2001/0314/1154615.html (582 words)

	ADN.com \| IDITAROD 33: 2001 Race Stories
		Swingley earned his third win in a row by completing the trail from Willow to Nome in 9 days, 19 hours, 55 minutes and 50 seconds.
		Four-time winner Doug Swingley, the Montana maverick, sticking to a patented tried-and-true strategy, surged early and forged his victory along the Yukon River and the stretch of trail that reaches from that ribbon of ice to the coastal hub of Unalakleet.
		Swingley singled out a dog named Elmer, who led Swingley to the 1999 championship and won the Golden Harness Award as the best lead dog in the race.
	www.adn.com /iditarod/history/2001/race (1591 words)

	extraordinary… (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Doug Swingley came in next, boasting that along the trail he had passed King sometime after “Old Woman’s Cabin” about thirty miles out from Unalakleet, but then he had to put an injured dog in his sled, and he lost the lead…costing him the $2,500 prize.
		Doug Swingley wants his number one spot back, and coming into Kaltag just ten minutes after the current leader, Jeff King…he just might be able to accomplish that… The next spot on the race is Unalakleet, the fist village on the coast of the Bering Sea.
		Doug Swingley has already said the he likes running this part of the race in 80 mile chunks, and maybe he can get a 100 mile run out of his team without exhausting them to much.
	www.northslope.net /blog (2900 words)

	USATODAY.com - Swingley remains in Iditarod lead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		During his stop in the coastal village of Unalakleet, Swingley and his team were surrounded by residents as he tended to his dogs.
		After feeding and bedding down his team, Swingley accepted a trophy and $2,500 in gold nuggets from National Bank of Alaska for being the first musher to reach the coast.
		Swingley said he's running the same schedule that worked so well for him last year and in 1999.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/_stories/2001-03-12-iditarod.htm (403 words)

	Time for Kids \| Magazines \| Top Dogs In Alaska's Iditarod
		As Doug Swingley raced to the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, cheering fans lined the streets of Nome, Alaska.
		Swingley, from Lincoln, Montana, is the only non-Alaskan ever to win the race.
		This time Swingley and his 11 dogs completed the grueling 1,100-mile trek from Anchorage to Nome in 9 days, 14 hours, 31 minutes and 7 seconds.
	www.timeforkids.com /TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,57350,00.html (184 words)

	Iditarod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Former mink rancher Doug Swingley, from Lincoln, Montana, has won the 2001 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, marking his third win in a row in this gruelling 1,100-mile event, and his fourth win overall.
		Swingley crossed the line in the 29th annual Iditarod at 6:55 a.m.
		For more on Doug Swingley and this year's race, visit the official Iditarod site at www.iditarod.com.
	www.furcommission.com /news/newsF02q.htm (678 words)

	Swingley advances to 13th - greatfallstribune.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Doug Swingley of Lincoln pulls into the Nikolai, Alaska, checkpoint of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Tuesday.
		Swingley was suffering eye problems but still arrived at the checkpoint in 13th place.
		NIKOLAI, Alaska -- Suffering from blurred vision, a temporarily blinded Doug Swingley of Lincoln was 13th into Nikolai checkpoint Tuesday in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
	www.greatfallstribune.com /news/stories/20040310/localnews/46942.html (840 words)

	Top Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Montana musher and four-time Iditarod winner Doug Swingley is on his way to the halfway point of the Iditarod.
		Swingley was the first to leave the checkpoint at Ophir just after 11 this morning for the 60-mile run to Cripple, the official halfway point of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
		Earlier this morning, Swingley received the PenAir Spirit of Alaska Award for being the first to arrive in the Kuskokwim River town of McGrath.
	www.aksuperstation.com /artman/publish/top_stories.shtml (700 words)

	Montana's Swingley favored in Iditarod - greatfallstribune.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Swingley said he is back because he needs a new pickup.
		Swingley has his own theories about getting the most of his team and himself.
		Swingley is uncharacteristically humble about his chances this year.
	www.greatfallstribune.com /news/stories/20040229/localnews/47022.html (1670 words)

	Issue 7 March 2001
		Doug Swingley from Lincoln, Montana won the Iditarod this year when competing against 68 other mushers.
		Doug Swingley first started mushing in 1989 when his brother Greg Swingley told him about the Iditarod.
		Doug first ran the Iditarod in 1992, finishing the race in 9th place and winning Rookie of the Year and Halfway Award.
	www.nomeschools.com /~acsa/news7.html (1367 words)

	Notebook8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Doug Swingley, seeing Nikolai's predicament, took out one of his unfrozen bottles and gave it to him.
		Swingley was explaining to the group why it was important for him to arrive in Nome by daylight: as he planned to get married when he crossed the finish line.
		To Nikolai and Jim, Doug suggested that if they didn't want to push their dogs unnecessarily hard, they could follow his plan of run/rest, too.
	www.anadyr.com /notebook8.htm (3374 words)

	MSN Encarta - Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
		By 1995 American musher Doug Swingley had lowered the record to just over 9 days.
		Technical advances in sleds, equipment, food, and technique have made mushers and their teams faster, but the Iditarod continues to be an adventure.
		Buser, who was born and raised in Switzerland, won the 2002 race in a record time of 8 days 22 hours 46 minutes.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568687/Iditarod_Trail_Sled_Dog_Race.html (1161 words)

	Dogsled.com - Doug Swingley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Musher and dog breeder, Doug Swingley, became the fifth musher to win more than one Iditarod when he won for the second time in 1999.
		Doug has also won the Race to the Sky and the Beargrease.
		Doug is a member of the Montana Mountain Mushers and the ITC.
	www.dogsled.com /musherbios/swingleydoug.html (118 words)

	Doug Swingley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Doug Swingley is a musher and a dog breeder.
		In 1992 Doug was named Rookie of the Year.
		Doug finished 1st again in Iditarod 2000 with a new record time of 9 days, 58 minutes, and 6 seconds.
	volweb.utk.edu /Schools/sumnercs/nberry/akswing.html (69 words)

	ABC News: King, Swingley Move to Front of Iditarod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		King said he could see Swingley's team in the distance on the Yukon on Saturday as his own team broke the trail through piles of soft snow.
		Swingley said he could tell he was gaining on King.
		"It would appear that Doug and I would be the most closely matched for the finish, but Ed Iten came from about this spot last year and ended up in second," King said.
	abcnews.go.com /Sports/wireStory?id=1715188&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (465 words)

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