| Just Kwaou-Mathey | |
| Nationality: | French |
| Birth Date: | 4 December 1999 |
| Birth Place: | Paris, France |
| Height: | 1.89 m |
| Weight: | 73 kg |
| Country: | France |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Hurdles |
| Pb: | 60m hurdles: 7.43 (Lievin, 2024) 110m hurdles: 13.09 (Paris, 2023) |
Just Kwaou-Mathey (born 4 December 1999) is a French athlete who competes as a hurdler.
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]
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]
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]
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]