Word: mekonnen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the early pretenders were dismissed, it came down to a battle between the tireless, unflappable Mekonnen and the hard-working Ikangaa...
...Mekonnen made up for those failures...
...Mekonnen--winner of five of his six previous marathons since 1986--made the decisive break and raced away to victory, as Ikangaa, lacking a strong finishing kick, fell back...
...good runner, but he has no good finish," Mekonnen said of Ikangaa...
...Mekonnen, whose previous victories came in the 1986 Montreal, Addis Ababa and Rotterdam marathons and the 1988 Beijing and Tokyo marathons, called the undulating Boston course difficult...