Abebe Mekonnen (born 1964) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...
He was the winner of the 93rd Boston Marathon in 1989. Mekonnen also competed for Ethiopia in the 1992 Olympics and 1996 Olympics in the marathon. He did not finish in the 1992 games and finished 81st with a time of 2:29 hours in the 1996 Summer Olympics. The 100th running of the Boston Marathon, 1996 The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon sporting event hosted by the city of Boston, Massachusetts, on Patriots Day, the third Monday of April. ... Modern-day marathon runners Runners in ancient Greece. ... The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. ...
Mekonnen has the most sub 2:15 marathons of anyone: 32 in all.[1] When he ran his 28th sub-2:15 marathon he broke the record set by Bill Rodgers. [2] People named Bill Rodgers: Bill Rodgers (politician), British politician Bill Rodgers (athlete), American marathon runner This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
His best time was 2:07:35 in the 1988 Beijing Marathon, which is still course record. The Beijing International Marathon is an annual race held in October in Beijing, China. ...
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