Yasmin Kwadwo (born 9 November 1990) is a German

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

athlete who competes in the sprints. Her personal best for the

100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been conteste ...

is 11.29 seconds. She won two gold medals at the

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in 2009 and represented Germany at the

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. She was the 2010 German indoor champion in the

60 metres 60 metres, or 60-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field. It is a championship event for indoor championships, normally dominated by the best outdoor 100 metres runners. At outdoor venues it is a rare distance, at least for senior ath ...

. She was a 100 m semi-finalist at the

2011 World Championships in Athletics The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011. The United States topped the medal standings in th ...

. She is frequently selected for the German women's 4×100 metres relay team and came fourth at the

2013 World Championships in Athletics The 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics (Moscow 2013) () was an international athletics competition held in Moscow, Russia, from 10–18 August 2013. Initially, Russia won the most gold medals to top the table for the first time since 200 ...

. She also won two silver medals at the

2013 European Team Championships The 2013 European Athletics Team Championships was the 4th edition of European Athletics Team Championships, first named ''European Athletics Team Championships'' and not only ''European Team Championships'' as from the 1st edition ( Leiria 2009) ...

Career

Born in Recklinghausen to parents of

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ian origin, she moved to

Wattenscheid Wattenscheid () is a Stadtbezirk of the city of Bochum. Until 1975, it was a separate town in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia. Wattenscheid has a population of about 80,000 citizens. Some notable firms have their headquarters in there, ...

with her family in 2001 and began to train in

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with Slawomir Filipowski at the local club,

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. In 2007, she was the

runner-up at the national junior championships, setting a best of 7.55 seconds, and ran a

best of 11.92 seconds to take third at the national youth championships. She improved these times to 7.48 and 11.66 seconds the following year and won both the national junior titles in the events. She was selected for the

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and represented Germany in the 100 m (reaching the semi-finals) and the 4×100 metres relay.Yasmin Kwadwo
Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-03-02. Kwadwo's first international medals came at the 2009 European Athletics Junior Championships, where she won gold medals in both the 100 m individual and relay events. She defended her junior titles and made progress in the senior ranks at the

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, coming fifth in the 60 m and sixth in the 100 m. She ended the year with bests of 7.38 and 11.38 seconds. In her first year of full senior competition, she won the German title in the 60 m with a best of 7.29 seconds and went to compete at the

, where she reached the semi-final stage. She improved slightly outdoors, running 11.33 seconds for the 100 m and taking third at the German Championships, but had less success at the

2010 European Athletics Championships The 2010 European Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the European Athletics Championships, organised under the supervision of the European Athletic Association. They were held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, C ...

as she did not get past the heats of either the individual or relay events. Despite suffering disqualification at the 2011 German Athletics Championships she was chosen to run the 100 m at the

and reached the semi-finals of the competition, achieving a best of 11.29 seconds in the process. The German 4×100 m relay again did not successfully finish the race. The next season she was second to

Verena Sailer Verena Sailer (born 16 October 1985 in Illertissen) is a retired German sprinter, who specialised in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.02 seconds, achieved in August 2013. She won the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Champion ...

at the German indoors but managed a best of 7.28 seconds. However, an injury curtailed her season and, though selected, she missed the 2012 Summer Olympics. She relocated club to MTG Mannheim, training alongside her national rival Sailer. In 2013, she did not compete extensively as an individual, though she did manage to win a silver medal at the

and place third at the 2013 German Athletics Championships. Most of her success came in relay teams that year: Kwadwo and her teammates were second at the European Team Championships, first at that national championships, and placed fourth at the

as well as the

Weltklasse Zürich Weltklasse Zürich ( en, World Class Zurich) is an annual, invitation-only, world-class track and field meeting at the Letzigrund in Zürich, Switzerland, generally held at the end of August or beginning of September. Previously one of the IAAF ...

meeting. At the start of 214 she set a new 60 m best of 7.26 but was again runner-up to Sailer nationally. At the 2019 World Championships, she was part of the German 4 x 100 m team that finished in 5th place.

Personal bests

– 7.24 sec (2015) *

– 11.25 sec (2019)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kwadwo, Yasmin 1990 births Living people German female sprinters German sportspeople of Ghanaian descent People from Recklinghausen Sportspeople from Münster (region) TV Wattenscheid athletes MTG Mannheim athletes