Just Kwaou-Mathey
 Just Kwaou-Mathey at the 2026 Wanda Diamond League’s Weltklasse Zürich athletics competition. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| 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 bests | 60 m hurdles: 7.43 (Lievin, 2024) 110 m hurdles: 12.99 (Talence, 2025) |
Just Kwaou-Mathey (born 4 December 1999) is a French athlete who competes as a hurdler. He was a bronze medalist in the 110 metres hurdles at the 2022 European Athletics Championships, and in the 60 metres hurdles competing at the 2024 World Indoor Championships and the 2023 and 2025 European Indoor Championships.
Junior career
[edit]The French junior 60 m 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]
Senior career
[edit]2022
[edit]In June 2022, Kwaou-Mathey ran 13.30 in Geneva for the 110 m 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]
2023
[edit]In March 2023 at the European Athletics Indoor Championships he won a bronze medal again, in the 60 m hurdles.[6]
He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, where he reached the semi-finals.[7]
2024
[edit]On 10 February 2024, he set a new personal best in the 60 m 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]
2025
[edit]He was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Appeldoorn, where he won a bronze medal in the men's 60 metres hurdles in a time of 7.50 seconds.[11][12] He finished fifth in the 2025 Diamond League event in Switzerland at the 2025 Athletissima in wet conditions in Lausanne.[13] He was a finalist competing at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in the men's 110 metres hurdles in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, placing seventh overall.[14][15]
2026
[edit]On 19 February, he finished in a dead-heat with Spaniard Enrique Llopis for shared victory in 7.446 seconds for the 60 metres hurdles competing on the World Athletics Indoor Tour in Liévin, France.[16] He finished second in the 60 metres hurdles and third in the 60 metres sprint at the 2026 French Indoor Athletics Championships in Aubiere.[17][18]
On 26 July, Kwaou-Mathey won the 110 m hurdles in 13.34 seconds at the French Championships in Albi.[19] On 12 August, he won the silver medal at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England, running a time of 13.16 seconds in the final.[20] In September, he competed in the 110 m hurdles at the inaugural World Ultimate Championship in Budapest.[21]
Personal life
[edit]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.[22]
References
[edit]- ↑ "KWAOU-MATHEY Just". europeanathletics.com.
- ↑ "The minima for the Eugene Worlds for Kwaou-Mathey and Bapté in Geneva". Lequipe.
- ↑ "Fraser-Pryce, queen of the 100m, Robert prince of the 800m at the Paris meeting". Lequipe.
- ↑ "World Championships-Results Men 2022". www.the-sports.org.
- ↑ "Martinez finishes day three with a flourish after thrilling 110m hurdles". Athletics Weekly.
- ↑ "Just Kwaou-Mathey third in the 60 m hurdles at the Euro indoor". Lequipe.fr. 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ↑ "Men's 110m Hurdles Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 21 August 2023. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
- ↑ "Tsegay, Girma and Holloway threaten world indoor records in Lievin". World Athletics. 10 February 2024. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ↑ "Men's 60m hurdles Results - World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ↑ "Just Kwaou-Mathey suffers from a ruptured Achilles tendon less than four months before the Olympics". Lequipe. 13 April 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ↑ "LA SÉLECTION FRANÇAISE". athle.fr. 25 February 2025. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ↑ "Kambundji breaks European indoor 60m hurdles record in Apeldoorn". World Athletics. 7 March 2025. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ↑ "Results - Athletissima Lausanne Diamond League 2025". Watch Athletics. 20 August 2025. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
- ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 16 September 2025. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
- ↑ "La sélection française". Athle.fr. 1 September 2025. Retrieved 2 September 2025.
- ↑ Broadbent, Chris (19 February 2026). "Afonso breaks 28-year-old European indoor 2000m best with 5:30.31 in Lievin". European Athletics. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
- ↑ "French Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 28 February 2026. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
- ↑ "French Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 28 February 2026. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
- ↑ Mills, Steven (26 July 2026). "Vessat shatters long-standing French 400m record with 44.24 in Albi". European Athletics. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
- ↑ "JASON JOSEPH WINS SPRINT HURDLES GOLD AS BRITAIN'S SAM BENNETT WINDS UP SEVENTH". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 13 August 2026.
- ↑ "World Athletics Ultimate Championships". World Athletics. 11 September 2026. Retrieved 15 September 2026.
- ↑ "Five things to know about Just Kwaou-Mathey, 3rd in the 110m hurdles at the European Championships". ouest-france.fr.
External links
[edit]- Just Kwaou-Mathey at World Athletics
- Just Kwaou-Mathey at FFA (in French)
- Just Kwaou-Mathey at InterSportStats
- Just Kwaou-Mathey on Instagram
