Benjamín Manuel Enzema Owono (born 25 March 1989) is an Equatorial Guinean

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. In the 1500 m event at the 2009 World Championships in

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, he set a personal best time of 4:13.17. At the

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, Enzema set a new national record time in the

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with a 1:58.19. Three months later, at the 2012 African Championships in

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, Benin, he shaved a further 1.9 seconds off the record, lowering it to 1:56.29. He competed in the

event at the

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but was eliminated in the first round. At the

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, he competed in the men's 1500m event.

Personal bests

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- 1:51.54 (

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) 20 June 2017 *

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- 3:46.14 (

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) 14 July 2018 *

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- 8:24.48 (

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) 1 June 2018 *

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- 14:18.46 (

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) 23 June 2018 *

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- 2:23:28 (

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) 14 Apr 2019

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* * * * 1989 births Living people People from Evinayong Olympic athletes for Equatorial Guinea Equatoguinean male middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Equatorial Guinea Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Equatoguinean sportsmen {{equatorialGuinea-athletics-bio-stub