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, 2 of which were born in Equatorial Guinea. This makes Equatorial Guinea the birth place of the 169th most number of Athletes behind Angola, and Maldives.
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. Lisseth Ayoví (b. 1998)
With an HPI of 20.39, Lisseth Ayoví is the most famous Equatorial Guinean Athlete. Her biography has been translated into 5 different languages on wikipedia.
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.
2. Benjamín Enzema (b. 1989)
With an HPI of 14.89, Benjamín Enzema is the 2nd most famous Equatorial Guinean Athlete. His biography has been translated into 6 different languages.
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.
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 Lisseth Ayoví, and Benjamín Enzema.
