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FORT KENT, Maine — A New Brunswick musher made history Monday morning by becoming the first woman ever to win the Can-Am 250 sled dog race.
Katherine Langlais, 39, of Glenwood, New Brunswick, crossed the finish line at Lonesome Pine Trails in Fort Kent at 8:24 a.m. Monday.
She beat out 13 other competitors, including 10-time Can-Am 250 champion Martin Massicotte, to win New England’s longest sled dog race.
Langlais spent the last leg of the race in a heated battle with Massicotte and second-place finisher Keith Aili of Ray, Minnesota.
Canadian women won all three Can-Am Crown Sled Dog races this year.
Florence Shaw, 17, of Fermont, Quebec, won the In Memory of Willard Jalbert Jr. Can-Am 100-mile race on Sunday.
Diane Marquis, 68, of St. Medard, Quebec, crossed the finish line Saturday afternoon to win the Pepsi/Native Dog Food Can-Am Crown 30-mile race.
