| Benin at the Olympics | |
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| IOC code | BEN |
| NOC | Benin National Olympic and Sports Committee |
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Benin has sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games held since 1980. Under its previous name of Dahomey, the country also competed in 1972. Despite appearing in twelve different Olympics, Benin has never won an Olympic medal. No athletes from Benin have competed in any Winter Olympic Games.
| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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 1972 Munich | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 1976 Montreal | did not participate | |||||
 1980 Moscow | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 1984 Los Angeles | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 1988 Seoul | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 1992 Barcelona | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1996 Atlanta | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 2000 Sydney | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 2004 Athens | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 2008 Beijing | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 2012 London | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 2020 Tokyo | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 2024 Paris | Future event | |||||
| 2028 Los Angeles | ||||||
| 2032 Brisbane | ||||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | |
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Benin competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004.
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Benjamín Manuel Enzema Owono is an Equatoguinean 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.
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