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FloAwards: Mikey Brannigan Wins Gold at Paralympic World Championships

FloAwards: Mikey Brannigan Wins Gold at Paralympic World Championships

Oct 26, 2015 by Taylor Dutch
FloAwards: Mikey Brannigan Wins Gold at Paralympic World Championships


From the Mt. SAC Invitational in Walnut, California to the International Paralympic Committee World Championships in Doha, Qatar, athletes emerged with standout performances around the world. Here are the top performances that took home this week’s FloAwards:
 
Mikey Brannigan
The Northport High School graduate ran 3:56.5 to claim the 1500m victory at the International Paralympic Committee World Championships in Doha, Qatar on Sunday. The middle distance standout claimed the win by narrowly edging out runner-up Penman Nasiri Bazanjani of Iran by 0.03 seconds at the line. What is even more impressive is that Brannigan is just 18-years-old, while Bazanjani is 35 and third-place finisher Alexander Rabotnitskiy is 22-years-old. Brannigan's performance follows a season that included a T20 Paralympic 1500m World record of 3:48, which he ran at the U.S. Paralympic Track and Field National Championships in St. Paul, Minnesota. Brannigan was diagnosed with autism at 18-months-old and competes in the T20 category, which is designated for athletes with intellectual impairments.
 

Richard Browne and Hunter Woodhall
Richard Browne and Hunter Woodhall claimed gold and bronze medals in the 200m, respectively, for Team USA at the Paralympic World Championships in Doha. Browne ran his way to gold with a winning time of 21.27, breaking his previous personal best of 21.62 which also crushes his own world record. Woodhall followed with a bronze medal in a finishing time of 22.09, just missing silver by five one-hundredths of a second. The performances were just two of many more incredible feats at the championships. 
 

Austin Tamagno (Brea Olinda High School)
The Brea Olinda runner claimed an individual win Friday night at Mt. SAC with a finishing time of 14:36 in a solo effort. The course record-holder changed his plans to race on Friday night instead of the sweepstakes race on Saturday in order to take an academic test. Despite missing his course record mark of 14:23, Tamagno was happy with the performance as he took home the victory in the D3 boys sweepstakes race. 
 

Phillip Rocha (Arcadia High School)
The Arcadia standout came within striking distance of the Mt. SAC course record when the senior ran 14:24 alone on the trails in Walnut, Calif. in the boys sweepstakes race. After his performance, Rocha famously claimed that the course record was “soft” and that he would have broken Tamagno’s 14:23 record had the Brea Olinda star been present to push him in the race. 
 


Great Oak Women’s Team
The ladies of Great Oak earned a 30-point team win over Davis and Arcadia at the Mt. SAC Invitational. Led by a third-place finish from Evelyn Mandel, the Great Oak women placed all top five scorers in the top 11 overall finishers with a 29-second spread. Destiny Collins finished the 3-mile course in 17:40 for third overall followed by her teammates Kiyena Beatty (6th), Nicole Rice (8th), and Sandra Pflughoft (11th). All top five finishers ran under 18 minutes on the difficult three-mile course. 


Brooke Starn (Monte Vista High School)
Starn claimed the fastest girls time of the day at the Mt. SAC Invitational with a winning performance of 16:55 in the individual girls sweepstakes race. The Monte Vista High School senior made a huge jump after running 17:56 last year on the Walnut course. Starn can look forward to competing at Harvard University next year.
 

Holly Lung (Arcadia High School) 
In the team sweepstakes race, Holly Lung of Arcadia stole the show with an individual win to claim her first major invitational title. Lung finished the three-mile course in 17:17 after her teammate Phillip Rocha claimed the individual title in the men’s race. Lung beat out some tough competition in Great Oak seniors Evelyn Mandel and Destiny Collins who finished nine seconds and 23 seconds behind her, respectively. 
 

Trevor Dunbar
The former Oregon All American won the Boston Mayor’s Cup Cross Country meet in 23:17 to claim the $600 prize by three seconds over Jimmy Spisak and Tabor Stevens on Sunday. Dunbar was racing with a heavy heart as his grandmother recently passed away at the age of 89. Dunbar boarded a plane immediately following his victory to join his family in Minnesota. In his post-race interview, he mentioned that the Boston Mayor’s Cup was a tune-up for the .US National Road Racing Championships in Virginia next month.  
 

Liz Costello
The women’s winner of the Boston Mayor’s Cup Cross Country Meet was Mark Coogan’s athlete Liz Costello who took down former Boston College All American Liv Westphal and Nike Oregon Project’s Mary Cain. Costello ran with Westfal and Cain from the beginning of the race, splitting 5:13 at the mile mark. But it would ultimately be Costello to claim the victory with time of 16:35, five seconds ahead of Westphal and 11 seconds ahead of Cain.