She competes in T37 long jump and sprint events and at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London she won the women's 200 metres race in her classification.

[2] Benson came from a sporting family, with her mother being an athlete before her, and her uncle playing for the Namibia national football team.

[2] Classified as a T37 competitor, for athletes with cerebral palsy, Benson's first major international event came in 2010 when she represented her country at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

[1] The next year she travelled to Christchurch in New Zealand to compete at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships, but she was unable to find the same form as in India, and she failed to qualify through to the finals in both the 100 and 200 metre sprints.

Entering the team as Namibia's only female athlete, the 22 years old Benson won a gold medal in the Women's 200m T37 race, ahead of Oksana Krechunyak of Ukraine.

On her arrival back home she was given N$170 000 in cash for the medals, a house in Walvis Bay, and a diplomatic passport by the Government of Namibia.