Just Kwaou-Mathey
French hurdler (born 1999)
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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.
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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: 12.99 (Talence, 2025) |
Junior career
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]
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.[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]
2025
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
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]
Personal life
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.[19]