Personal information | |
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Full name | Cynthia Maduengele Bolingo Mbongo |
Born | Uccle, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium | 12 January 1993
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) |
Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | 100 m, 200 m, 400m |
Club | CABW |
Coached by | Jean Pecher (–2012) Carole Bam (2012– |
Medal record |
Cynthia Maduengele Bolingo Mbongo (born 12 January 1993), [1] known as Cynthia Bolingo, is a Belgian sprinter. She won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships and the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.
Bolingo competed in the 200 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without advancing from the first round.
On 1 June 2021, she broke the Belgian record on the 400 metres at a meeting in Montreuil, France; with a time of 50 seconds and 75 hundreds, she improved upon the 16-year-old time of 51 seconds 45 hundreds by Kim Gevaert, and qualified to compete at the 2020 Olympics. [2] A month later, she broke it again, lowering it to 50.29 seconds. [3] On August 22, 2023, she qualified for the 400m final of the world championships by setting a time of 49 s 96 in the semi-final, improving her Belgian record and becoming the first Belgian to reach the final of a 400 metres at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest.
In June 2024, she was on the Belgian 4 x 400 metres women's relay team that won a bronze medal at the European Athletics Championships. [4]
Épreuves | Temps | Lieu | Date | |
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60 m | indoor | 7 s 25 | Belgium Louvain-La-Neuve | 2022 |
100 m | outdoor | 11 s 28 | Belgium Nivelles | 2021 |
200 m | outdoor | 22 s 79 | Belgium Nivelles | 2021 |
indoor | 24 s 92 | Belgium Ghent | 2011 | |
400 m | outdoor | 49 s 96 ( NR) | Hungary Budapest | 2023 |
indoor | 51 s 62 ( NR) | United Kingdom Glasgow | 2019 | |
4 × 400 m relay | outdoor | 3 min 22 s 12 ( NR) | Germany Munich | 2022 |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Cynthia Maduengele Bolingo Mbongo |
Born | Uccle, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium | 12 January 1993
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) |
Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | 100 m, 200 m, 400m |
Club | CABW |
Coached by | Jean Pecher (–2012) Carole Bam (2012– |
Medal record |
Cynthia Maduengele Bolingo Mbongo (born 12 January 1993), [1] known as Cynthia Bolingo, is a Belgian sprinter. She won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships and the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.
Bolingo competed in the 200 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without advancing from the first round.
On 1 June 2021, she broke the Belgian record on the 400 metres at a meeting in Montreuil, France; with a time of 50 seconds and 75 hundreds, she improved upon the 16-year-old time of 51 seconds 45 hundreds by Kim Gevaert, and qualified to compete at the 2020 Olympics. [2] A month later, she broke it again, lowering it to 50.29 seconds. [3] On August 22, 2023, she qualified for the 400m final of the world championships by setting a time of 49 s 96 in the semi-final, improving her Belgian record and becoming the first Belgian to reach the final of a 400 metres at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest.
In June 2024, she was on the Belgian 4 x 400 metres women's relay team that won a bronze medal at the European Athletics Championships. [4]
Épreuves | Temps | Lieu | Date | |
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60 m | indoor | 7 s 25 | Belgium Louvain-La-Neuve | 2022 |
100 m | outdoor | 11 s 28 | Belgium Nivelles | 2021 |
200 m | outdoor | 22 s 79 | Belgium Nivelles | 2021 |
indoor | 24 s 92 | Belgium Ghent | 2011 | |
400 m | outdoor | 49 s 96 ( NR) | Hungary Budapest | 2023 |
indoor | 51 s 62 ( NR) | United Kingdom Glasgow | 2019 | |
4 × 400 m relay | outdoor | 3 min 22 s 12 ( NR) | Germany Munich | 2022 |