Star midfielder Tim Taranto created Richmond Brownlow Medal history at the 2025 count.

Taranto became the first Tigers player to reach the 20-vote mark in a team that won five games or fewer in a season.

Since the Brownlow Medal’s inception in 1924, the only other Tiger to come close to that achievement was the Club’s triple Best and Fairest winner Ron Branton, who polled 19 Brownlow votes in 1962, when the team finished with five wins and eighth place on the ladder (in a 12-team competition).

Taranto polled 20 Brownlow votes, which was the most in his 173-game AFL career – one more than he picked up in his 2023 debut season with Richmond after being traded from Greater Western Sydney.

Those 20 votes were out of a combined team total of 33 in Richmond’s five-win, 17th-placed season.

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The 27-year-old has now polled 44 Brownlow votes in just 59 games for the Tigers.

At the Giants, he had 33 votes in 114 games, with a best result of 15 in 2021.

He has been Richmond’s leading vote-getter in each of his three seasons so far at the Club (equal with Shai Bolton in 2024).

Taranto’s Brownlow voting record at Tigerland stacks up with another gun midfielder recruited by the Club from an AFL/VFL rival.

Ian Stewart won the game’s most prestigious individual award in his first season with Richmond in 1971 after transferring from St Kilda, where he was a dual Brownlow Medal winner.

All-up, Stewart polled 45 Brownlow votes in 78 games for the Tigers.