Cynthia Bolingo

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.

Cynthia Bolingo

Bolingo at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin
Personal information
Full name	Cynthia Maduengele Bolingo Mbongo
Born	(1993-01-12) 12 January 1993 (age 31) Uccle, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
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 Women's athletics Representing  Belgium European Championships 2024 Rome 4×400 m relay European Indoor Championships 2019 Glasgow 400 m European Games 2023 Kraków-Małopolska 4×400 m mixed

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]