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Cameroon Olympic Team, 1996 & 2000
2003 Indoor: IC4A QUALIFIER: 60 METERS, 200 METERS; Scored in two events at the IC4A Championships, placing third in the 55 meters in a season-best 6.35 seconds and finishing eighth in the 200 meters in a season-best 21.73 seconds… Won the 60 meters at the Collegiate Open in 6.79 seconds and placed in the top five six times… Ran a season-best time of 6.74 in the 60 meters to place third at Virginia Tech’s Last Chance Meet – just .02 seconds off the NCAA provisionally qualifying time… Placed in the top five twice in the 200 meters. 2002 Outdoor: IC4A QUALIFIER: 100 METERS, 200 METERS; 400-METER RELAY; Competed in the short sprints for the Green & Gold… Ran the team's top time in the 100 at the season-opening Raleigh Relays, placing in the top 10 in the IC4A-qualifying 10.53 seconds… Placed fourth in the event at the IC4A Championships in 10.66 seconds… Ran a season-best and IC4A-qualifying 21.55 seconds in the 200 meters at Tennessee's Sea Ray Relays… Ran the second leg on the 4x1, posting top-10 finishes at the IC4A Championships and Sea Ray Relays… The relay posted a season-best time of 40.95 seconds during the prelims of the IC4A Championships. 2002 Indoor: IC4A QUALIFIER: 60 METERS; Posted the team's top times in both the 60 and 200 meters… Placed third in the 60 meters at the IC4A Championships… Ran a season-best 6.77 seconds in the 60 to place fourth at Virginia Tech's Last Chance Meet… Recorded two other top-five finishes, including a win at the Patriot Games… Posted a season-best 22.46-second performance in the 200 meters at the Last Chance Meet. 2001 Highlights: Outdoors, qualified for the IC4A Championships in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 400-meter relay… Won the 100-meter title at IC4As with a season-best and NCAA provisionally qualifying time of 10.29 seconds-just .02 seconds off the school record… Was second at the CAA Championships and eighth at the Penn Relays… Placed fifth at IC4As in the 200, after recording a season-best time of 21.21 seconds during the prelims… Ran the second leg of the 4x100-meter relay, picking up a win at the Spring Invitational in a season-best 40.61… Was the runner-up at both IC4A and CAA Championships… Indoors qualified for IC4As in the 60 and 200 meters… Finished fourth at the IC4A Championships in the 60 in 6.87 seconds… Also placed fourth at George Mason's Collegiate Invitational in a season-best 6.79… Won the 60 at the Patriot Games… Won the 55 meters in 6.38 seconds at the Prince George's Sports Invitational… Recorded a season-best time of 22.03 in the 200 meters at Boston University's St. Valentine Invitational. Huston-Tillotson College: Earned multiple All-America honors in 2000-in the 55 meters indoors, 100 meters outdoors and 4x100-meter relay outdoors… Won the team's 2000 Newcomer of the Year Award… Also played soccer. Other Experience: Set George Mason's outdoor record in the 100 meters with a 10.26-second win in the semifinals at the 13th African Championships in the summer of 2002… Placed fourth in the finals in 10.33 seconds… Last summer also competed in the 4x100-meter relay at the Commonwealth Games, placing fifth in 39.25 seconds… The 4x1 automatically qualified to compete in the 2002 World Cup in Madrid, Spain… Competed for Cameroon's Olympic team in both the 1996 and 2000 summer Olympic Games… Ran the 100 meters and in the 4x100-meter relay at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Austrailia… In the 100, advanced to the quarterfinals after a 10.35-second, runner-up finish in his heat during the first round … Placed seventh in his heat in the quarterfinals… Ran the second leg of the 4x100-meter relay… Placed fifth in his first-round heat in 39.62 seconds… Also competed in the 4x100-meter relay at the World Championships in 2001 (Edmonton, Canada), 1999 (Seville, Spain) and 1997 (Athens, Greece)… Also ran in the 4x1 in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and in the 1995 All-African Games (Zimbabwe)… Advanced to the finals in the 100 at the 1999 All-African Games in South Africa… Advanced to the semifinals in the 100 and the 4x1 at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia… Bronze medalist in the 4x1 relay at the African Championships in 1998 (Senegal) and 1996 (Cameroon)… Won the silver in the 4x1 at the 1997 Francophone Games in Madagascar. Personal: Born August 3, 1977… Parents are Teophile Bengono and Assako Benjamine… Has five siblings-Sylvain (29), Fortune (23), Pelagie (21), Guy (19) and Giselle (17)… Graduated from Younde High School in 1994… Also attended Huston-Tillotson College… Majoring in communication. Personal PRs: 100 (10.19), 200 (20.87) |
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