Cynthia Maduengele Bolingo Mbongo (born 12 January 1993), known as Cynthia Bolingo, is a

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sprinter. She won the silver medal in the

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at the

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and the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres at the

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. Bolingo competed in the

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at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without advancing from the first round. On 1 June 2021, she broke the Belgian record on the

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

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, and qualified to compete at the

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. A month later, she broke it again, lowering it to 50.29 seconds. 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

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

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International competitions

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* 1993 births Living people Belgian female sprinters Belgian sportspeople of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent European Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships athletes for Belgium Olympic athletes for Belgium Olympic female sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Competitors at the 2017 Summer Universiade People from Uccle Athletes from Brussels Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games European Games bronze medalists for Belgium European Games medalists in athletics Black Belgian sportspeople {{Belgium-athletics-bio-stub