Caroline Joyeux

Caroline Joyeux

Personal information
Born	(2001-03-26) 26 March 2001 (age 24)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Triple jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	Triple jump: 14.45m (Essen, 2025)

Caroline Joyeux (born 26 March 2001) is a German triple jumper. ^[1]

Career

From Berlin, she is a member of LG Nord Berlin having joined the club at the age of 8 years-old. In 2018, at the age of 17 years-old she became German U18 champion in the triple jump. The following year she won the German U20 Indoor Championships with a new personal best jump of 12.99 meters. ^{[2] [3]}

She transitioned to the senior ranks, placing sixth in the final of the German Indoor Championships in 2021. ^[4] She placed fifth at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn. ^[5]

She jumped a personal best of 14.45 metres in Essen in June 2025. ^{[6] [7]} Later that month, she jumped 14.42 metres to win the triple jump on her senior international debut for Germany at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships First Division in Madrid. ^{[8] [9]} She was selected for the German team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. ^[10]

Personal life

In 2020 she met pole vaulter EJ Obiena at a training camp in Italy with the pair starting a relationship. She attended the 2024 Olympic Games to support him competing for the Philippines. ^{[11] [12]}

References

1. "Caroline Joyeux". World Athletics. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
2. "Berliner Rekord für Caroline Joyeux". leichtathletik-berlin.de. 2 June 2025. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
3. "Part 3 of the portrait series of the degewo junior team: high jumper Blessing Enatoh and triple jumper Caroline Joyeux". Degewo.de. May 18, 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
4. "At the Istaf Indoor, Caroline Joyeux from Berlin meets her boyfriend again". berliner-zeitung.de. 10 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
5. "European Athletics u23 Championships". World Athletics. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
6. "Tag der Überflieger". World Athletics. 1 June 2025. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
7. "Caroline Joyeux fliegt auf 14,45 Meter, Imke Onnen steigert sich auf 1,97 Meter". leichtathletik.de. 1 June 2025. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
8. "European Athletics Team Championships First Division". World Athletics. 28 June 2025. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
9. Broadbent, Chris (28 Jun 2025). "Czechia's Stefela wins high jump with the highest mark outdoors in 2025". Eurorpean Athletics. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
10. "76 für Tokio: Das deutsche WM-Team steht". Leichtathletik.de. 29 August 2025. Retrieved 29 August 2025.
11. Purnell, Kristofer (August 14, 2024). "EJ Obiena's girlfriend Caroline Joyeux shares Paris Olympics experience". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
12. Bravo, Frances Karmel (August 14, 2024). "Who is Caroline Joyeux, EJ Obiena's German athlete girlfriend?". www.pep.ph. Retrieved 28 June 2025.