Just Kwaou-Mathey

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 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 110 metres hurdles in Tallinn, Estonia running 13.59 seconds.

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. 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, but missed out on a place in the final by 0.03 seconds. 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.

2023
In March 2023 at the European Athletics Indoor Championships he won a bronze medal again, in the 60m hurdles.

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 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.