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Boay Akonay

athletics competitor (1970-2013)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ4931551 ↗
Source-derived summary

Boay Akonay (3 January 1970 – 29 June 2013) was a Tanzanian long-distance runner who won the bronze medal at the 1992 World Half Marathon Championships.

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Boay Akonay at World Athletics

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Boay Akonay". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-11-02.

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“Boay Akonay” enters the record as athletics competitor (1970-2013). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Boay, Akonay and athletics can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 2013, 1992, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-01-03. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Boay, Akonay and athletics.
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“Boay Akonay” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Boay, Akonay and athletics provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4931551. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 2013, 1992 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Boay Akonay” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.