Swiss sprinter

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.

Contents

• 1 Early life and family
• 2 Career
• 3 Compe*ion record
• 4 Personal bests
• 5 Miscellaneous
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Early life and family

Born in Bern to a Congolese-Swiss father, Sa*a, and a Bernese mother, Ruth, Mujinga is the second of four children, Ditaji Kambundji is her younger sister.

Career

In 2009, Kambundji won the silver medal in the 100 metres and gold medal in the 4×100 metres relay at the European Youth Olympic Festival, and the 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 *ociation. In 2010, she won the 200 metres in the Second League of the European Team Championships, and broke the Swiss U20 record in 200 metres in the U20 World Championships.

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.

At the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zürich Kambundji broke her own national record in the heats and semi-finals of the 100 metres compe*ion before finishing fourth in the final. She subsequently finished fifth and broke Regula Aebi's 26-year-old national record in the 200 metres final.

Kambundji qualified for the Swiss team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, reaching the semi-finals of both the 100m and the 200m. Earlier in the same year, she had won bronze in the 100m compe*ion at the European Championships in Amsterdam.

At the 2017 World Championships in London, Kambundji finished 10th in the 100m compe*ion. In the 4 × 100 m relay compe*ion, Kambundji and her teammates Ajla Del Ponte, Sarah Atcho and Salomé Kora improved the national record in the semi-finals and finished fifth in the final. At the end of the year, Kambundji announced that she will work with Dutch coach Henk Kraaijenhof in the future. Their working relationship was terminated after only two months, however.

At the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Kambundji finished 3rd in the 60m final to win bronze. At the European Championships in Berlin, she finished 4th in the 100m as well as in the 200m 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 3rd in the 200 m compe*ion.

At the 2020 Summer 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 60m 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.

Compe*ion record

1Did not finish in the final

Personal bests

Relays

• 4 × 100 metres relay – 42.05 (Tokyo 2021) NR
• 4 × 200 metres relay – 1:31.75 (N*au 2014) NR

Miscellaneous

ETH Zurich student organization Swissloop's entry to the 2018 edition of the Hyperloop compe*ion was a transport capsule named Mujinga, after Kambundji.

References

External links

• Official website
• Mujinga Kambundji at World Athletics
• Mujinga Kambundji at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Compe*ion records of Mujinga Kambundji, European Athletics *ociation
• Compe*ion records of Mujinga Kambundji, ST Bern