Mujinga Kambundji

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Mujinga Kambundji athletics

Mujinga Kambundji Birmingham 2018.jpg
Mujinga Kambundji in Birmingham 2018

nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 17th June 1992 (age 28)
place of birth Bern , Switzerland
size 168 cm
Weight 59 kg
job Student ( Business Administration )
Career
discipline 100 meters ; 200 metres
Best performance 7.03 s Sport records icon NR.svg60 meters
10.95 s Sport records icon NR.svg100 meters
22.26 s Sport records icon NR.svg200 meters
society STB athletics
Trainer Steve Fudge
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Indoor world championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
European championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
IAAF logo Indoor world championships
bronze Birmingham 2018 60 m
EAA logo European championships
bronze Amsterdam 2016 100 m
IAAF logo World championships
bronze Doha 2019 200 m
last change: October 10, 2019

Mujinga Kambundji (born June 17, 1992 in Bern ) is a Swiss athlete . She is the current holder of the Swiss records in the sprint over 60 , 100 and 200 meters .

Life

Kambundji is a child of Swiss parents; her mother comes from Bern, her father from the Congo . She has three sisters. Since graduating from high school , she has been studying business administration at the private University of Economics PHW in Bern. She lives in Liebefeld near Bern.

Athletic career

Mujinga Kambundji starts for the athletics selection STB Track and Field of the City Gymnastics Club Bern and was trained by Valerij Bauer from autumn 2013. In autumn 2017, she separated from Bauer. She found a new trainer in Henk Kraaijenhof, but the collaboration only worked until December 2017. After that, she was without a permanent coach, but received help from her youth trainer Jacques Cordey and Adrian Rothenbühler in designing the training. As of April 2018, Rana Reider was her trainer. She started preparing for the 2019 World Championships with a new coach, Steve Fudge, and trained alternately in Switzerland and London.

Kambundji's talent showed up early on over the short running distances, and later she was also successful in the high and long jump disciplines . After winning the silver medal in the 100-meter run at the European Summer Youth Olympic Festival in Tampere in 2009 , she won the short sprint double with gold medals in the 100 and 200-meter races at the Swiss Active Championship .

At the 2010 European Champion Clubs Cup, Kambundji beat the limits in the 100 and 200 meter run for the U20 World Championships. Then Kambundji represented Switzerland in the Second League of the European Team Championship in Belgrade over 100 and 200 meters, where she won the 200-meter run. At the U20 World Championships, she made it to the semi-finals in both disciplines, in the 200-meter run she just missed the final. Because of the U20 World Championships, which took place around the same time, Kambundji could not defend her Swiss championship title from the previous year.

After Kambundji had set a new Swiss record (43.90 s) with the Swiss 4 x 100 meter relay on June 30, 2011, she ran at the 2011 European Junior Championships in Tallinn in both the 100 and 200 Meter run to fifth place. At the Swiss championships, Kambundji won the title in the 100-meter run, but injured himself in the 200-meter run and could not participate in the 2011 World Championships in Daegu for the relay .

In 2012, 2013 and 2014 Kambundji won the Swiss championship titles over 100 and 200 meters. With the 4 x 100 meter relay, she took part in the 2012 Olympic Games in London ; in the same year she was a participant in the European Championships in Helsinki .

In 2013 she qualified over 60 meters for the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg and in 2013 took part in the World Championships in Moscow .

Kambundji reached the finals at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich over 100 and 200 meters and in the 4 x 100 meter relay. As the starting runner of the relay, she lost the baton, which led to her being disqualified.

At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , Kambundji achieved her best performance of 11.07 s over 100 meters in twelfth place.

With the Swiss women's team of the 4 x 100 meter relay, she qualified at the relay world championships in Nassau ( Bahamas ) to take part in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In March 2016, however, she announced that she would not be available for the relay competitions that year.

At the European Championships in Amsterdam in 2016 , Kambundji won bronze over 100 meters with 11.25 seconds.

At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Kambundji reached the semi-finals over 100 meters with 11.19 s in the heats, but was unable to qualify for the final on August 13, 2016 as the sixth in their series in the João Havelange Olympic Stadium with 11.16 s and also just missed her season best of 11.14 seconds, which she set at the European Championships in Amsterdam. Over 200 meters she made third place on August 15, 2016 with 22.78 s and reached the semi-finals, in which she then failed to qualify for the final on August 17, 2016 with 22.83 s.

The 2017 indoor season was mixed for Kambundji, at the highlight, the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade , she took fourth place over 60 meters with 7.16 seconds.

At the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham in 2018 , Kambundji won bronze in 7.05 s over 60 meters, becoming the first Swiss athlete to win a medal in a sprint in world championships.

At the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, she won bronze over 200 meters behind Dina Asher-Smith and Brittany Brown with 22.51 seconds.

Awards

successes

  • 2009: Swiss champion 100 and 200 meters; 2nd place in the European Youth Olympic Festival 100-meter run and 1st place with the 4 x 100-meter relay ; 6th place U18 World Championships 200 meter run; 2nd place in the Swiss indoor championships, 60-meter run and 200-meter run
  • 2010: 2nd place in the Swiss indoor championships, 60 and 200 meter races; 1st place European Team Championship Second League 200-meter run; 9th place U20 World Championships 200-meter run and 13th place 100-meter run
  • 2011: 5th place in the European Athletics Junior Championships 100 and 200 meter run; Swiss champion 100 meter run; Swiss indoor champion 200-meter run and 2nd place 60-meter run
  • 2012: Swiss champion 100 and 200 meter run
  • 2013: Swiss champion 100- and 200-meter run, 21st place in the European Athletics Indoor Championships 60-meter run
  • 2014: Swiss champion 100- and 200-meter run, 4th place in the European Championships 100-meter run, 5th place in the European Championships 200-meter run
  • 2015: Swiss champion 100 and 200 meter run
  • 2016: 3rd place (bronze medal) European Championships 100 meter run
  • 2017: 4th place at the European Indoor Championships, 60-meter run
  • 2018: 3rd place (bronze medal) World Indoor Championships 60-meter run, Swiss champion 100-run
  • 2019: 3rd place (bronze medal) World Championships 200 meter run, Swiss champion 100 and 200 meter run

Personal best

  • 100-meter run : 10.95, July 13, 2018 in Zofingen, Swiss record
    • 100-meter run: 11.03 on July 5, 2018 in Lausanne, Swiss record
    • 100-meter run: 11.07 s, August 24, 2015 in Beijing , Swiss record, equalized on July 18, 2017 in Bellinzona
    • 100-meter run: 11.17 s, 23 August 2015 in Beijing , Swiss record equalized
    • 100 meter run: 11.17 s, July 21, 2015 in Bellinzona , Swiss record
    • 100-meter run: 11.20 s, August 13, 2014 in Zurich , Swiss record
    • 100-meter run: 11.32 s, August 12, 2014 in Zurich , Swiss record
    • 100 meter run: 11.53 s, July 22, 2011 in Tallinn , Swiss junior record
  • 200-meter run : 22.26 s, August 24, 2019 in Basel , Swiss record
    • 200-meter run: 22.64 s, August 27, 2015 in Beijing , Swiss record ( broken by Léa Sprunger on July 17, 2016 )
    • 200-meter run: 22.80 s, August 8, 2015 in Zug , Swiss record
    • 200-meter run: 22.83 s, August 15, 2014 in Zurich , Swiss record
    • 200-meter run: 22.94 s, August 14, 2014 in Zurich , Swiss U23 record
    • 200-meter run: 23.68 s, July 22, 2010 in Moncton , Swiss junior record
  • 60-meter run (hall): 7.03 s, February 17, 2018 in Magglingen , Swiss record and world best for the year
    • 60-meter run (hall): 7.44 s, February 21, 2009 in Magglingen, Swiss junior record
  • High jump : 1.67 m, August 30, 2008 in Bern
  • Long jump : 5.50 m, April 28, 2007 in Bern

Varia

Mujinga Kambundji was nominated along with five other people as a possible winner of the Arosa Humor shovel 2014, a jury award of Arosa Humor Festival .

In 2015 she was awarded the 5th Bern Communication Prize. The Bern Public Relations Society BPRG recognized her because, in addition to her athletic achievements, she also communicated credibly and authentically. Instead of becoming a tragic heroine (after the mistake at the 2014 European Championship season finale), she became the “Queen of Hearts” and a figurehead of Swiss athletics.

literature

  • Christof Gertsch: Just wait. The story of the fastest woman in Switzerland. In: Das Magazin No. 26 of June 30, 2018, pp. 14-21 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Mujinga Kambundji  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss radio and television : Mujinga Kambundji: The fastest Swiss woman August 3, 2014.
  2. ^ Eva Hirschi: Mujinga Kambundji - too fast for the Bernese. ( Memento of July 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) NZZ Campus, accessed on August 17, 2014.
  3. ↑ Andreas Babst: Mujinga Kambundji longs for the super time. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 2, 2018 ( nzz.ch , accessed March 4, 2018).
  4. ↑ Kambundji's new start with the «Schnellermacher». In: Tages-Anzeiger April 6, 2018 ( tagesanzeiger.ch ).
  5. ↑ Martin Neumann: Flash News of the Day - Mujinga Kambundji switches to Steve Fudge , Notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, November 4, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018.
  6. ^ Christian Brüngger .: scandal about Kambundji. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Remo Geisser: Kambundji's sprint into happiness. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 8, 2016, accessed July 9, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Micha Jegge: Important insight for Kambundji. In: Berner Zeitung of March 8, 2017.
  9. ↑ srf.ch/sport: Kambundji takes bronze at the World Cup! dated March 2, 2018. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
  10. ↑ Kambundji is running a record, but misses the final on August 24, 2015.
  11. ↑ Kambundji out despite the Swiss record , from August 27, 2015.
  12. ↑ Nominated for the Arosa humor scoop known. In: Südostschweiz.ch. November 5, 2014, accessed November 16, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Bern Communication Prize goes to Mujinga Kambundji. (PDF) In: BPRG. May 11, 2015, accessed May 14, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Kambundji, Mujinga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss athlete
DATE OF BIRTH 17th June 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern