Caroline Joyeux

Caroline Joyeux
Personal information
Born (2001-03-26) 26 March 2001
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Triple jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)Triple jump: 14.45m (Essen, 2025)

Caroline Joyeux (born 26 March 2001) is a German triple jumper. She won the German Athletics Championships and European Team Championships First Division in 2025, and placed tenth representing Germany at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.[1]

Career

From Berlin, she is a member of LG Nord Berlin having joined the club at the age of 8 years-old. In 2018, at the age of 17 years-old she became German U18 champion in the triple jump. The following year she won the German U20 Indoor Championships with a new personal best jump of 12.99 meters.[2][3]

She transitioned to the senior ranks, placing sixth in the final of the German Indoor Championships in 2021.[4] She placed fifth at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn.[5]

She jumped a personal best of 14.45 metres in Essen in June 2025.[6][7] Later that month, she jumped 14.42 metres to win the triple jump on her senior international debut for Germany at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships First Division in Madrid.[8][9] In August, she jumped 14.24 metres to win ahead of Kira Wittmann at the German Championships in August 2025 in Dresden.[10] In September 2025, she competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, qualifying for the final and placing tenth overall.[11][12]

Joyeaux was runner-up to Kira Wittmann at the German Indoor Championships on 28 February 2026.[13]

Personal life

In 2020 she met pole vaulter EJ Obiena at a training camp in Italy with the pair starting a relationship. She attended the 2024 Olympic Games to support him competing for the Philippines.[14][15]

References

  1. ^ "Caroline Joyeux". World Athletics. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  2. ^ "Berliner Rekord für Caroline Joyeux". leichtathletik-berlin.de. 2 June 2025. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  3. ^ "Part 3 of the portrait series of the degewo junior team: high jumper Blessing Enatoh and triple jumper Caroline Joyeux". Degewo.de. 18 May 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  4. ^ "At the Istaf Indoor, Caroline Joyeux from Berlin meets her boyfriend again". berliner-zeitung.de. 10 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  5. ^ "European Athletics u23 Championships". World Athletics. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  6. ^ "Tag der Überflieger". World Athletics. 1 June 2025. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  7. ^ "Caroline Joyeux fliegt auf 14,45 Meter, Imke Onnen steigert sich auf 1,97 Meter". leichtathletik.de. 1 June 2025. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  8. ^ "European Athletics Team Championships First Division". World Athletics. 28 June 2025. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  9. ^ Broadbent, Chris (28 June 2025). "Czechia's Stefela wins high jump with the highest mark outdoors in 2025". Eurorpean Athletics. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  10. ^ "German Championships". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
  11. ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 18 September 2025. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  12. ^ "76 für Tokio: Das deutsche WM-Team steht". Leichtathletik.de. 29 August 2025. Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  13. ^ "WM-Normen im Sprint-Showdown sorgen für krönenden Tages-Abschluss". Leichtathletik. 28 February 2026. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
  14. ^ Purnell, Kristofer (14 August 2024). "EJ Obiena's girlfriend Caroline Joyeux shares Paris Olympics experience". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  15. ^ Bravo, Frances Karmel (14 August 2024). "Who is Caroline Joyeux, EJ Obiena's German athlete girlfriend?". www.pep.ph. Retrieved 28 June 2025.