Just_Kwaou-Mathey
Just Kwaou-Mathey
French hurdler
Just Kwaou-Mathey (born 4 December 1999) is a French athlete who competes as a hurdler.
.jpg) Just Kwaou-Mathey in Glasgow, 2024 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | French |
| Born | (1999-12-04) 4 December 1999 (age 24) 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) |
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]
2022
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]
2023
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]
2024
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]
- "KWAOU-MATHEY Just". europeanathletics.com.
- "World Championships-Results Men 2022". www.the-sports.org.
- "Just Kwaou-Mathey third in the 60m 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.