Mikey Brannigan Wins Paralympic Gold Medal
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The teen runner with autism won the 1500 meters after leading the entire race in Rio de Janeiro.
By Erin Strout, Runner's World
Mikey Brannigan topped off a stellar 2016 track season on Tuesday with a Paralympic gold medal in the 1500 meters in Rio, where he led the race from beginning to end, winning by four seconds in 3:51.73.
The victory comes about a month after the 19-year-old broke 4 minutes in the Mile. At the Sir Walter Miler meet on August 5 in North Carolina, he finished seventh in 3:57.58, becoming the first person with a T20 Paralympic classification to break the coveted 4:00 mark. He also owns the T20 Paralympic world record in the event after finishing in 3:48.85 last summer at the U.S. Paralympic National Championships.
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