One of the top sprinters in the world
Athletics star expects young people
05/23/2025 – 1:13 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
A few weeks ago she won World Cup gold, now the season of sprinter Mujinga Kambundji has ended early. There is a special reason.
The current hall world champion over 60 meters, Mujinga Kambundji, puts her World Cup plans on ice-on a happy occasion. The Swiss sprinter awaits her first child together with her life partner and coach Florian Clivaz. The 32-year-old now announced this via Instagram.
There she wrote: “The season is over for the most beautiful reason. I am incredibly happy to announce that our little miracle is on the way! I am so grateful for this new adventure and I am looking forward to returning to the race track in 2026.”
The baby is to be born in autumn 2025. A few days ago, Kambundji stood on the track in Doha – now it is clear: it was her last race of the season. The Swiss sprint star said: “In training, I felt very fit for a very long time and from a medical point of view nothing would have spoken against fighting a few competitions.” But the pregnancy is increasingly effective: “In the past few weeks I have felt how the body feeling changes and I simply lack the substance in the race.”
This now ends a successful year early. In March, Kambundji secured the silver medal at the European Halle European Championship over 60 meters. Two weeks later she became the hall world champion over the same route-as already in 2022.
Despite the pregnancy, the athlete from Bern is planning her sporting future – with clear goals. As early as 2026, the 200-meter bronze winner of the 2019 World Cup in Doha would like to take part in competitions again. However, the big focus is on the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Then she could be in an Olympic 100-meter final for the third time in a row-it would be her fifth games as a whole.
Kambundji wants to continue training until the birth – but “stressful”, as she emphasizes. So she wanted to keep her fitness as long as possible and avoid a complete break. “If everything works, I would like to avoid an ’empty season’ and return to the train next year.”