Just Kwaou-Mathey (born 4 December 1999) is a French athlete who competes as a
hurdler.
Junior Career
The French junior 60m champion in 2019, Kwaou-Mather finished fifth in the final of the
in
Tallinn, Estonia running 13.59 seconds.
Senior Career
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
The 2022 World Athletics Championships was the eighteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships. It was held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, United States, from July 15–24, 2022, with the country hosting that competition for the f ...
. A week later in Paris, he lowered his personal best to 13.27 seconds. 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
Eugene ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast.
As of the 2020 United States Census, Eu ...
, but missed out on a place in the final by 0.03 seconds. He took this form into the
2022 European Athletics Championships
The 2022 European Athletics Championships were the 25th edition of the European Athletics Championships and were held in Munich, Germany, from 15 to 21 August 2022.
They were part of the European Championships, a multi-sport tournament which brin ...
and won the bronze medal, finishing third in the final in Munich in a time of 13.33.
2023
In March 2023 at the
European Athletics Indoor Championships he won a bronze medal again, in the
60m hurdles
60 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling which is generally run in indoor competitions. It is equivalent with the first 5 hurdles of a standard outdoor hurdle race. The current women's and men's world records are 7.68 seconds (Susanna Ka ...
.
He competed at the
2023 World Athletics Championships, where he reached the semi-finals.
2024
On 10 February 2024, he set a new personal best in the 60m hurdles indoors in
Lievin of 7.43 seconds. He won a bronze medal at the
2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in
Glasgow. In April 2024, an
achilles tendon injury ruled him out of the rest of the season.
Personal life
He is friends with footballer
Dayot Upamecano
Dayotchanculle Oswald Upamecano (born 27 October 1998) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the France national team. Upamecano is known for his tackling and ball-playing ability.
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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
Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which pla ...
.
References
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1999 births
Living people
French male hurdlers
Athletes from Paris
European Athletics Championships medalists
21st-century French people