Mowen Boino

Nationality Papua New Guinea

Born (1979-12-16) 16 December 1979 (age 45)

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

Weight73 kg (161 lb)

Mowen Boino

Personal information
Nationality	Papua New Guinea
Born	(1979-12-16) 16 December 1979 (age 45) 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

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3]