La­gat, an eight-time win­ner of the cap­stone event at New York's his­toric mar­quee in­door fix­ture, played a close game of cat and mouse with the World In­door Cham­pi­on but found his own fa­mous clos­ing speed in­suf­fi­cient to get by Mekon­nen as the crowd came to their feet to see the two mil­ers du­el­ing in the clos­ing laps.La­gat was un­de­feat­ed in the Wana­mak­er since 2005 and al­so won in 2001 and 2003.