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Place of Birth: Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Sebastian Schnuelle
- Sebastian Schnuelle (born May 21, 1970) is a Canadian dog musher and dog sled racer from Whitehorse, Yukon, who won the 2009 1,000 mile Yukon Quest sled dog race.
- Schnuelle is fluent in English, French, and German.
- Nicknames: 'Sab' or 'the Armchair Musher'. Schnuelle was born in Wuppertal, Germany.
- By the age of 25 he had become an industrial mechanic for Mercedes Benz, however he decided to take a leave from that duty and spent the summer working in an Ontario national park.
- Following that adventure, he undertook a canoe trip up the length of the Mackenzie River finishing at Tuktoyaktuk.
- After that canoe trip he decided to settle in the Yukon choosing the Whitehorse area where he took up mushing and would eventually open a dog sled tour business called Blue Kennels (named after his first sled dog "Blue").
- He began running both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 2005 and continued entering both in 2006, and 2007.
- Following his victory in the 2009 Yukon Quest, he plans to complete the double again by competing in the 2009 Iditarod.
- Schnuelle captured the Veterinarians choice award as well as the Sportsmanship award in the 2007 Yukon Quest.
- His lead dogs Inuk, and Popcorn captured the Golden Harness award in the 2009 Yukon Quest.
- In the same year he became second in the Iditarod.
- In the Yukon Quest 2011 he also finished second.
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