Just Kwaou-Mathey

Just Kwaou-Mathey (born 4 December 1999) is a French athlete who competes as a hurdler.

Just Kwaou-Mathey

Just Kwaou-Mathey in Glasgow, 2024
Personal information
Nationality	French
Born	(1999-12-04) 4 December 1999 (age 25) 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)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  France World Indoor Championships 2024 Glasgow 60m hurdles European Championships 2022 Munich 110 m hurdles European Indoor Championships 2025 Apeldoorn 60 m hurdles 2023 Istanbul 60 m hurdles

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]

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.^[13]