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.

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]