30,341 runners raced 13.1 miles from Prospect Park to Coney Island in the Brooklyn Half Marathon, the largest field in the event’s history. More than 20% of participants were Brooklyn residents, totaling 6,648 people. Danica Reinick won the nonbinary division in 1:18:17, and Evan Sherman placed fifth in the men’s division in 1:05:59. Maurice Evans, a 57-year-old Brooklyn native and handcycling athlete with Prevailers Racing, finished seventh in the hand cycling division. Evans has used a wheelchair for more than 30 years and began racing about three years earlier after support from Prevailers captain Penelope Richards. He described Prospect Park hills as the toughest part and said Ocean Parkway and spectator noise helped him push harder.
"A record-breaking 30,341 runners raced 13.1 miles from Prospect Park to the iconic Coney Island in the New York Road Runners' Brooklyn Half Marathon on Saturday. It was the largest number of participants in the race's more than 40-year-history, according to New York Road Runners , and more than 20% of them - a total of 6,648 people - were Brooklynites."
"Brooklynite Danica Reinick took first in the nonbinary division, finishing the race in 1:18:17, according to official results; fellow Brooklyn Track Club Member Evan Sherman took fifth place in the men's division with a time of 1:05:59."
"Maurice Evans, a 57-year-old Brooklyn native and a member of the handcycling team Prevailers Racing , placed seventh in the hand cycling division. Evans, who has used a wheelchair for more than 30 years, only started racing about three years ago, he said. At the time, Evans said he was helping to train other handcyclers at the Axis Project . One day, Penelope Richards - the captain of Prevailers - asked for some help with her own marathon training."
""I'm trying to get up the hill, and I'm hearing footsteps coming, and that actually encouraged me to push harder," he said. "In my mind, I don't want to have a worse time than the people that are running." He loved riding on Ocean Parkway and hearing the roar of spectators."
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