Dedeline Mibamba Kimbata (born 5 February 1982) is a Congolese Paralympic track and field athlete.
[1] She was born to a poor family living in Kinshasa, the capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
As a result, she lost her legs and had to stay in hospital for two years before being provided with prosthetic limbs by the Red Cross.
[2] During her stay in London for the Paralympics she applied for political asylum, since she feared prosecution in the DRC because of her protest against president Joseph Kabila.
[4] She came to her training camp at the University of Bedfordshire without a racing wheelchair but had one donated to her by Kenyan Paralympian Anne Wafula Strike after the two were put in contact by The Dream, a charity campaign run by organisations in Britain and Haiti.