| Cynthia Bolingo | |
| Fullname: | Cynthia Maduengele Bolingo Mbongo |
| Birth Date: | 12 January 1993 |
| Birth Place: | Uccle, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
| Height: | 1.65 m |
| Weight: | 54 kg |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | 100 m, 200 m, 400m |
| Club: | CABW |
| Coach: | Jean Pecher (–2012) Carole Bam (2012– |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Cynthia Maduengele Bolingo Mbongo (born 12 January 1993), 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.[1] A month later, she broke it again, lowering it to 50.29 seconds.[2] 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.[3]
| scope=col colspan=2 | Épreuves | scope=col | Temps | scope=col | Lieu | scope=col | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 m | indoor | 7 s 25 | Louvain-La-Neuve | 2022 | |||
| 100 m | outdoor | 11 s 28 | Nivelles | 2021 | |||
| 200 m | outdoor | 22 s 79 | Nivelles | 2021 | |||
| indoor | 24 s 92 | Ghent | 2011 | ||||
| 400 m | outdoor | 49 s 96 (NR) | Budapest | 2023 | |||
| indoor | 51 s 62 (NR) | Glasgow | 2019 | ||||
| 4 × 400 m relay | outdoor | 3 min 22 s 12 (NR) | Munich | 2022 |