 Just Kwaou-Mathey in Glasgow, 2024 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | French |
| Born | 4 December 1999 Paris, France |
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | France |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Hurdles |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 60m hurdles: 7.43 (Lievin, 2024) 110m hurdles: 13.09 (Paris, 2023) |
Medal record | |
Just Kwaou-Mathey (born 4 December 1999) is a French athlete who competes as a hurdler.
The French junior 60m champion in 2019, Kwaou-Mather finished fifth in the final of the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 110 metres hurdles in Tallinn, Estonia running 13.59 seconds. [1]
In June 2022, Kwaou-Mathey ran 13.30 in Geneva for the 110m hurdles to achieve the entry criteria for the upcoming 2022 World Athletics Championships. [2] A week later in Paris, he lowered his personal best to 13.27 seconds. [3] At the World Championships he qualified from the heats and in the semi-final ran a new personal best time of 13.25 in Eugene, Oregon, but missed out on a place in the final by 0.03 seconds. [4] He took this form into the 2022 European Athletics Championships and won the bronze medal, finishing third in the final in Munich in a time of 13.33. [5]
In March 2023 at the European Athletics Indoor Championships he won a bronze medal again, in the 60m hurdles. [6]
He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, where he reached the semi-finals. [7]
On 10 February 2024, he set a new personal best in the 60m hurdles indoors in Lievin of 7.43 seconds. [8] He won a bronze medal at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. [9] In April 2024, an achilles tendon injury ruled him out of the rest of the season. [10]
He is friends with footballer Dayot Upamecano and he was in attendance for the 2022 European Championships to see Kwaou-Mathey won a bronze medal in Munich, where Upamecano was playing club football for Bayern Munich. [11]
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