The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Equatorial Guinea
This page contains a list of the greatest Equatorial Guinean Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, NaN of which were born in Equatorial Guinea. This makes Equatorial Guinea the birth place of the 0th most number of Athletes.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Equatorial Guinean Athletes of all time. This list of famous Equatorial Guinean Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Benjamín Enzema (b. 1989)
With an HPI of 0.00, Benjamín Enzema is the most famous Equatorial Guinean Athlete. His biography has been translated into different languages on wikipedia.
Benjamín Manuel Enzema Owono (born 25 March 1989) is an Equatorial Guinean athlete. In the 1500 m event at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, he set a personal best time of 4:13.17. At the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Enzema set a new national record time in the 800 m with a 1:58.19. Three months later, at the 2012 African Championships in Porto-Novo, Benin, he shaved a further 1.9 seconds off the record, lowering it to 1:56.29. He competed in the 800 m event at the 2012 Summer Olympics but was eliminated in the first round. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, he competed in the men's 1500m event.
2. Lisseth Ayoví (b. 1998)
With an HPI of 0.00, Lisseth Ayoví is the 2nd most famous Equatorial Guinean Athlete. Her biography has been translated into different languages.
Lisseth Betzaida Ayoví Cabezas (born 7 August 1998, Machala) is an Ecuadorian weightlifter. She won the bronze medal in the women's +87 kg event at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Equatorial Guinean athletes born between 1989 and 1998. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Equatorial Guinean athletes include Benjamín Enzema, and Lisseth Ayoví. As of April 2024, 2 new Equatorial Guinean athletes have been added to Pantheon including Benjamín Enzema, and Lisseth Ayoví.
