The runner Mamo Wolde died at the age of 69. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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Ethiopian long-distance runner who won the marathon at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico.
He was born into an Oromo family, a prominent, powerful ethnic group in Ethiopia.
On 26 May 2002, Degaga died of liver cancer at age 69, just a few months after his release. He had been married twice and had three children; a son with his first wife, Samuel, and two children, Addis Alem and Tabor, with his second wife. Degaga is interred in Saint Joseph’s Church Cemetery in Addis Ababa.