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Martin Buser
Martin Buser (born March 29, 1958) is a champion of sled dog racing.
Born in Winterthur, Switzerland, Buser began mushing at age seventeen in Switzerland. In 1979, he moved to Alaska to train and raise sled dogs full-time. His training operation, Happy Trails Kennels, is located in Big Lake, Alaska.
He entered his first Iditarod in 1980, and has run every race since 1986, his third Iditarod. Buser has won the event four times, in 1992
of 31 after falling ill to a fever. He had at least one son, Hans Buser III (1538-1584), who came to be known as "der Canis" for his bravery and death in the Cologne War in 1584. In addition, he had two other sons, named Mathis and Martin Buser. The Buser family was eventually displaced from Liestal during the Thirty Years' War, and Hans' great-grandson, Georg, moved the family to his maternal homeland in Saxony under the name of Bausser