Mowen Boino

Mowen Boino (born 16 December 1979) is a Papua New Guinean track and field athlete, who specialized in 400 metres and in 400 metres hurdles. He is a three-time Olympian and four-time national record holder for the 400 m hurdles. He also achieved his personal best time of 50.37 seconds at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.

Mowen Boino

Personal information
Nationality	Papua New Guinea
Born	(1979-12-16) 16 December 1979 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	400 m, 400 m hurdles
Club	QEII Track Club (AUS)
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	400 m: 48.08 400 m hurdles: 50.37
Medal record Men's athletics Representing Papua New Guinea (South) Pacific Games 2003 Suva 400 m hurdles 2003 Suva 4x400 m relay 2007 Apia 400 m hurdles 2011 Nouméa 110 m hurdles 2011 Nouméa 400 m hurdles 2011 Nouméa 4x400 m relay 2015 Port Moresby 400 m hurdles 2015 Port Moresby 4x00 m relay 1999 Santa Rita 4x400 m relay 2007 Apia 4x400 m relay 2015 Port Moresby 110 m hurdles 1999 Santa Rita 400 m hurdles 2003 Suva 110 m hurdles 2007 Apia 110 m hurdles (South) Pacific Mini Games 2001 Middlegate 400 m hurdles 2001 Middlegate 110 m hurdles 2001 Middlegate 4x400 m relay 2001 Middlegate 400 m Oceania Championships 2002 Christchurch 400 m hurdles 2002 Christchurch 800 m medley relay 2006 Apia 110 m hurdles 2006 Apia 400 m hurdles 2008 Saipan 400 m hurdles 2011 Apia 400 m 2011 Apia 400 m hurdles 2013 Pepeete 400 m hurdles 2002 Christchurch 110 m hurdles 2000 Adelaide 400 m hurdles 2010 Cairns 400 m hurdles 2015 Cairns 400 m hurdles 2015 Cairns 110 m hurdles
Updated on 23 August 2016

Boino first competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he set a national record for Papua New Guinea in the 400 m hurdles, with a possible fastest time of 51.38 seconds. He continued to improve his athletic performance at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, when he finished last in the fourth heat of the men's 400 m hurdles, by forty-one hundredths of a second ahead of his national record set from Sydney, with a time of 50.97 seconds.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Boino competed again for the men's 400 m hurdles. He ran in the fourth heat, against seven other athletes, including defending champion Félix Sánchez of the Dominican Republic. Boino finished the race in sixth place by thirty-seven hundredths of a second (0.37) behind Sánchez, with a seasonal best time of 51.47 seconds.

Personal bests

Event	Result	Venue	Date
100 m	11.72 s (NWI)	Brisbane	21 May 2010
200 m	23.26 s (wind: +1.7 m/s)	Brisbane	29 Mar 2014
400 m	47.97 s	Canberra	25 Mar 2012
110 m hurdles	14.58 s (wind: +1.8 m/s)	/ Mata Utu	6 Sep 2013
400 m hurdles	50.37 s	Melbourne	21 Mar 2006

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Papua New Guinea
1999	South Pacific Games	Santa Rita, Guam	10th (h)	400 m	50.82
			3rd	400 m hurdles	52.81
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:14.47
2000	Oceania Championships	Adelaide, Australia	4th	400 m	48.99
			2nd	400 m hurdles	52.50
	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	8th (h)	400 m hurdles	51.38
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	6th (h)	400 m hurdles	51.82
	South Pacific Mini Games	Middlegate, Norfolk Island	3rd	400 m	49.67
			2nd	110 m hurdles	15.65 (-3.0 m/s)
			1st	400 m hurdles	53.66
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:18.98
2002	Commonwealth Games	Manchester, United Kingdom	28th (qf)	400 m	48.74 s
			10th (h)	400 m hurdles	51.05
	World Cup	Madrid, Spain	9th	400 m hurdles	51.66
	Oceania Championships	Christchurch, New Zealand	4th	400 m	50.48
			2nd	110 m hurdles	15.52 (-3.6 m/s)
			1st	400 m hurdles	53.06
			1st	800 m medley relay	1:31.17
2003	Melanesian Championships	Lae, Papua New Guinea	3rd	400 m hurdles	56.4
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:20.4
	South Pacific Games	Suva, Fiji	7th	400 m	49.21
			3rd	110 m hurdles	15.37 (-1.6 m/s)
			1st	400 m hurdles	51.93
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:11.43
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	7th (h)	400 m hurdles	50.97
2006	Commonwealth Games	Melbourne, Australia	13th (sf)	400 m hurdles	50.78
	Oceania Championships	Apia, Samoa	1st	110 m hurdles	15.02 (-0.9 m/s)
			1st	400 m hurdles	51.62
2007	Melanesian Championships	Cairns, Queensland, Australia	4th	400m	48.71
			1st	400 m hurdles	51.43
	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	6th (h)	400 m hurdles	52.45
	Pacific Games	Apia, Samoa	7th	400 m	50.03
			3rd	110 m hurdles	14.97(+1.3 m/s)
			1st	400 m hurdles	51.35
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:11.96
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	6th (h)	400 m hurdles	51.47
	Oceania Championships	Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands	1st	400 m hurdles	52.07
2010	Commonwealth Games	Delhi, India	4th (h)	400 m hurdles	51.40
	Oceania Championships	Cairns, Australia	2nd	400 m hurdles	51.84
2011	Oceania Championships (Regional Division West)	Apia, Samoa	1st	400 m	48.05
			1st	400 m hurdles	51.88
	Pacific Games	Nouméa, New Caledonia	1st	110 m hurdles	14.95 (-0.7 m/s)
			1st	400 m hurdles	50.96 GR
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:12.34
2013	Oceania Championships	Papeete, French Polynesia	–	400 m	DNF
			1st	400 m hurdles	51.97
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	33rd (h)	400 m hurdles	51.49
	Pacific Mini Games	Mata-Utu, Wallis and Futuna	1st	110 m hurdles	14.58 (+1.8 m/s)
			1st	400 m hurdles	53.34
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:16.19
2014	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, United Kingdom	—	400 m hurdles	DQ
	Oceania Championships	Rarotonga, Cook Islands	—	110 m hurdles	DQ
2015	Oceania Championships	Cairns, Queensland, Australia	3rd	110 m hurdles	14.92 (+1.4 m/s)
			2nd	400 m hurdles	52.19
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, United States	25th (h)	400 m	49.81
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	20th (h)	400 m hurdles	51.61

External links

• Mowen Boino at World Athletics
• NBC 2008 Olympics profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-08-23)
• Mowen Boino at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Mowen Boino at Olympedia (archive)