Cynthia Bolingo
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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) | |||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 m, 200 m, 400m | |||||||||||||
Club | CABW | |||||||||||||
Coached by | Jean Pecher (–2012) Carole Bam (2012– | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Cynthia Maduengele Bolingo Mbongo (born 12 January 1993), known as Cynthia Bolingo, is a Belgian sprinter.[1] She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 400 m.[2]
She 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.[3] A month later, she broke it again, lowering it to 50.29 seconds.[4]
International competitions[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Belgium | |||||
2011 | European Junior Championships | Tallinn, Estonia | 5th | 4 × 100 m relay | 45.15 |
2013 | European U23 Championships | Tampere, Finland | 12th (h) | 200 m | 23.96 |
– | 4 × 100 m relay | DQ | |||
Jeux de la Francophonie | Nice, France | 3rd | 200 m | 24.08 | |
1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.70 | |||
2015 | European U23 Championships | Tallinn, Estonia | 8th | 400 m | 52.82 |
World Championships | Beijing, China | 43rd (h) | 200 m | 23.45 | |
2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 63rd (h) | 200 m | 23.98 |
2017 | Universiade | Taipei, Taiwan | 22nd (h) | 200 m | 24.80 |
2018 | European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 16th (sf) | 400 m | 51.92 |
4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:27.69 | |||
2019 | European Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 2nd | 400 m | 51.62 |
5th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:32.46 | |||
2021 | European Indoor Championships | Toruń, Poland | 17th (sf) | 400 m | 53.74 |
World Relays | Chorzów, Poland | 3rd (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:28.27 |
Personal bests[]
Outdoor
- 100 metres – 11.28 (+1.1 m/s, Nivelles 2021)
- 200 metres – 22.79 (+1.2 m/s, Nivelles 2021)
- 400 metres – 50.29 (NR) (Tomblaine 2021)
- 100 metres hurdles – 13.97 (NR) (-0.6 m/s, Herve 2011)
Indoor
- 60 metres – 7.40 (Ghent 2017)
- 200 metres – 24.92 (NR) (Ghent 2011)
- 400 metres – 51.62 (NR) (Glasgow 2019)
- 60 metres hurdles – 8.38 (NR) (Ghent 2011)
References[]
- ^ Cynthia Bolingo at World Athletics
- ^ "Athletics BOLINGO Cynthia - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". .. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
- ^ "Cynthia Bolingo verpulvert Belgisch record op 400 meter: "Een bevrijding"". Sporza (in Dutch). 1 June 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ "Bolingo and Vanderelst break Belgian records in Heusden". European Athletics. 5 July 2021.
External links[]
- Official website
- http://www.all-athletics.com/node/321343
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EhNEAogbOQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bUjZ_r5B04
- http://www.diamondleague.com/athletes/14360768.html
- Cynthia Bolingo at the International Olympic Committee
- Cynthia Bolingo at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- Belgian female sprinters
- Living people
- People from Uccle
- 1993 births
- Belgian sportspeople of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Belgium
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Belgium
- Competitors at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- Olympic female sprinters
- Belgian athletics biography stubs