Mujinga Kambundji
![]() Kambundji at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene | |
Personal information | |
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Born | Bern, Switzerland[1] | 17 June 1992
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb)[2] |
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Country | Switzerland |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | 60-, 100-, 200 metres |
Club | ST Bern |
Coached by | Valerij Bauer (2013–2017) |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | |
Medal record |
Mujinga Kambundji (born 17 June 1992) is a Swiss sprinter. She won the bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships in the 200 metres event. Kambundji is the 60 metres 2022 World indoor champion, becoming the joint fourth-fastest woman of all time in the event, after earning a bronze in 2018. She is a three-time European Championships medallist, including gold for the 200m in 2022, and also won one medal at the European Indoor Championships.
Early life and family
Born in Bern[1] to a Congolese father, Safuka, and a Bernese mother, Ruth, Kambundji is the second of four children; Ditaji Kambundji is her younger sister.[3]
Career
In 2009, Kambundji won the silver medal in the 100 metres and the gold medal in the 4×100 metres relay at the European Youth Olympic Festival, and gold medals in the 100 and 200 metres at the Swiss championships. For this, she was elected Swiss Athlete of the Year by the Swiss Athletics Association. In 2010, she won the 200 metres in the Second League of the European Team Championships, and broke the Swiss U20 record in 200 m in the U20 World Championships.[4]
Mujinga Kambundji trained with the ST Bern athletics club and was trained by Jacques Cordey. In the autumn of 2013 she moved to Mannheim to train under coach Valerij Bauer alongside former European champion Verena Sailer.[5][6]
At the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zürich, Kambundji broke her own national record in the heats and semi-finals of the 100 metres competition before finishing fourth in the final.[5] She subsequently finished fifth and broke Regula Aebi's 26-year-old national record in the 200 metres final.[7]
Kambundji qualified for the Swiss team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, reaching the semi-finals of both the 100 m and the 200 m.[8] Earlier in the same year, she had won bronze in the 100 m competition at the European Championships in Amsterdam.[9]
At the 2017 World Championships in London, Kambundji finished 10th in the 100 m competition.[10] In the 4 × 100 m relay competition, she and her teammates Ajla Del Ponte, Sarah Atcho and Salomé Kora improved the national record in the semi-finals[11] and finished fifth in the final.[12] At the end of the year, Kambundji announced that she will work with Dutch coach Henk Kraaijenhof in the future.[13] Their working relationship was terminated after only two months, however.[14]
At the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Kambundji finished 3rd in the 60 m final to win bronze. At the European Championships in Berlin, she finished fourth in the 100 m as well as in the 200 m and in the 4 × 100 m relay (with Ajla Del Ponte, Sarah Atcho and Salomé Kora).
At the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Kambundji finished third in the 200 m competition. [15]
At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics Kambundji qualified for the finals in both 100 m and 200 m sprints, finishing sixth in the former and seventh in the latter event. She was also a part of the Swiss 4 x 100 m relay team that finished fourth in the final.
She won the gold medal in the 60 m at the 2022 World Indoor Championships held in Belgrade in a time of 6.96 seconds, putting her joint-fourth on the world all-time list; a rare feat racing from lane eight. No woman had run faster over the distance since 1999.[16]
On 19 August 2022, Kambundji won the gold medal in the 200 m at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, after winning silver in the 100 m with a time of 10.99 s behind the Germany's Gina Lückenkemper three days earlier.[17][18]
Competition record
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2009 | World Youth Championships | Brixen, Italy | 6th | 200 m | 23.92 |
European Youth Olympic Festival | Tampere, Finland | 2nd | 100 m | 11.84 | |
1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 46.30 | |||
2010 | European Team Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 1st | 200 m | 24.20 |
2nd | 4 x 100 m relay | 45.46 | |||
2011 | European Team Championships | Izmir, Turkey | 3rd | 4 x 100 m relay | 44.24 |
European Athletics Junior Championships | Tallinn, Estonia | 5th | 100 m | 11.53 | |
5th | 200 m | 23.70 | |||
2013 | European U23 Championships | Tampere, Finland | 4th | 100 m | 11.55 |
5th | 200 m | 23.70 | |||
2014 | European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | 4th | 100 m | 11.30 |
5th | 200 m | 22.83 | |||
4th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 42.981 | |||
2015 | European Indoor Championships | Prague, Czech Republic | 5th | 60 m | 7.11 |
2016 | European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3rd | 100 m | 11.25 |
2017 | European Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 3rd | 60 m | 7.16 |
World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 5th | 4 × 100 m relay | 42.51 | |
2018 | World Indoor Championships | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 3rd | 60 m | 7.05 |
European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 4th | 100 m | 11.05 | |
4th | 200 m | 22.45 | |||
4th | 4 × 100 m relay | 42.30 | |||
2019 | European Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 5th | 60 m | 7.16 |
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 3rd | 200 m | 22.51 | |
4th | 4 × 100 m relay | 42.18 | |||
2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 6th | 100 m | 10.99 |
7th | 200 m | 22.30 | |||
4th | 4 × 100 m relay | 42.08 | |||
2022 | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 1st | 60 m | 6.96 |
World Championships | Eugene, United States | 5th | 100 m | 10.91 | |
8th | 200 m | 22.55 | |||
7th | 4 × 100 m relay | 42.81 | |||
European Championships | Munich, Germany | 2nd | 100 m | 10.99 | |
1st | 200 m | 22.32 |
1Did not finish in the final
Personal bests
Event | Time (sec) | Wind | Venue | Date | Notes |
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100 metres | 10.89 | +0.6 m/s | Zurich, Switzerland | 24 June 2022 | NR |
200 metres | 22.05 | +0.9 m/s | Eugene, OR, USA | 19 July 2022 | NR |
60 metres indoor | 6.96 | Belgrade, Serbia | 18 March 2022 | NR | |
4 × 100 m relay | 42.05 | Tokyo, Japan | 5 August 2021 | NR | |
4 × 200 m relay | 1:31.75 | Nassau, Bahamas | 25 May 2014 | NR |
Miscellaneous
ETH Zurich student organization Swissloop's entry to the 2018 edition of the Hyperloop competition was a transport capsule named Mujinga, after Kambundji.[19]
References
- ^ a b About me Archived 2 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine on her website, 2 July 2018.
- ^ "Mujinga Kambundji". Olympedia.org. OlyMADmen. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "Pour les parents de Mujinga Kambundji, "l'équilibre familial passe avant le sport"". La Liberté. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
- ^ "Junge Bernerin bricht Leichtathletikrekorde". Der Bund. 23 July 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
- ^ a b "Mega-happy Mujinga Kambundji". European Athletics Association. 14 August 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ^ Schönenberger, Carl (2 August 2009). "Meitschi Kambundji ist ein Juwel!". Blick. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
- ^ "Athlétisme: Mujinga Kambundji 5e du 200m européen" [Athletics: Mujinga Kambundji 5th in European 200m]. Radio Télévision Suisse (in French). 15 August 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ^ "Olympic". Archived from the original on 6 August 2016.
- ^ "Schippers wins second European 100m gold in Amsterdam | REPORT | World Athletics".
- ^ https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/5151/AT-100-W-sf----.RS4.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/5151/AT-4X1-W-h----.RS4.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/5151/AT-4X1-W-f----.RS6.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Kambundji geht aufs Ganze". Berner Zeitung (in German). 24 November 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ "Von Neuanfang zu Neuanfang". Berner Zeitung (in German). 22 January 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ^ "200 Metres Result | IAAF World Athletics Championships, DOHA 2019".
- ^ Crumley, Euan (18 March 2022). "Special run means the world to Kambundji". AW. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "Kambundji pips Asher-Smith to 200m title".
- ^ "Gina Luckenkemper wins women's 100m European title in Munich after photo finish".
- ^ Stalder, Helmut. "Mit dieser superschnellen Transportkapsel will ein ETH-Team den Hyperloop-Wettbewerb von Elon Musk gewinnen | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 8 April 2022.
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