Keshia Kwadwo

Keshia Kwadwo
Full name	Keshia Beverly Kwadwo
nation	Germany
birthday	10th July 1999 (age 21)
place of birth	Dortmund ,  Germany
size	169 cm
Weight	62 kg
job	Police officer (trainee)
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	Hall: 60 m: 7.34 s; 200 m: 24.37 s Open air: 100 m: 11.33 s (+1.7 m / s) ; 200 m: 23.89 s (± 0.0 m / s)
society	LC Paderborn , formerly: TV Wattenscheid 01
Trainer	Thomas Prange , formerly: Slavomir Filipowski, Barbara Retschat
status	active
Medal table
U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × U18 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × German championships 0 × 1 × 2 × German indoor championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Junior World Championships bronze Bydgoszcz 2016 4 × 100 m  U23 European Championships gold Gävle 2019 4 × 100 m  U20 European Championships gold Grosseto 2017 4 × 100 m silver Grosseto 2017 100 m  U18 European Championships gold Tbilisi 2016 100 m  German championships silver Kassel 2016 4 × 100 m bronze Erfurt 2017 4 × 100 m bronze Nuremberg 2018 4 × 100 m  German indoor championships gold Dortmund 2018 4 × 200 m silver Dortmund 2018 60 m
last change: August 10, 2020

Keshia Beverly Kwadwo (born July 10, 1999 in Dortmund , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German athlete and successful sprinter .

Athletic career

When Keshia Kwadwo was eight years old, she found that she was running much faster than the other kids at running and decided to switch from swimming to athletics. Kwadwo started for TV Wattenscheid 01 since her youth and has been active at LC Paderborn since 2020 .

In 2014, Kwadwo was German U16 champion over the 100 meters and was German U18 champion with the 4 x 100 meter relay . At the end of the year she led the list of the U16 students with 11.80 seconds over the 100 meters.

In 2015, Kwadwo took third place in the 4 x 200 meter relay at the German U20 youth indoor championships and came fourth over the 60 meters. With the 4 x 100 meter relay, Kwadwo became German U18 champion . Internationally, she finished eighth in the 100-meter distance at the U18 World Championships in the Colombian capital Bogotá .

The successes continued in 2016. She became German U20 indoor runner-up over 60 meters and German U18 champion in the 100 meter distance. With the 4 x 100 meter relay, Kwadwo was runner-up in the German runners-up . Internationally, she won her first medal when she became the U18 European champion over 100 meters in the Georgian capital Tbilisi . A few days later she came in third place at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz ( Poland ) with the 4 x 100 meter relay.

2017 was her most successful year to date. In the indoor season, Kwadwo became German U20 indoor champion over 60 meters and took third place with the 4 x 200 meter relay . In the juniors category she became German U23 champion over 100 meters. In the active category, Kwadwo took fourth place over 100 meters. At the youth championships she was German U20 champion over 100 meters and German U20 runner-up with the 4 x 100 meter relay. Internationally, Kwadwo in Grosseto ( Italy ) with a new U20 world record in 43.27 s became U20 European champion with the 4 x 100 meter relay and won her second international individual medal as U20 vice European champion over 100 meters.

In 2018, Kwadwo became German indoor runner-up over 60 meters and won the indoor title with the 4 x 200 meter relay of TV Wattenscheid 01 .

At the German Indoor Championships 2020, Keshia Kwadwo sprinted to fifth place, right behind her sister and club mate Yasmin Kwadwo .

Kwadwo is part of the perspective squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV).

Private

Kwadwo's parents are from Ghana . Keshia has an older sister, Yasmin , who is also a athlete, and a brother, Leroy , who is a professional footballer .

Kwadwo planned to take her Abitur exams in April 2018 and then begin training with the police.

Awards

• 2015, 2016 and 2017 Bochum's "Elite Student of Sports"
• In 2017, the Deutsche Sporthilfe named “Junior Sportsman of the Year” in the team ranking

Top performances

Hall

60 m: 7.34 s ( Halle (Saale) , U20 indoor international match , March 4, 2017)
m 200: 24.37 s ( Dortmund , Hall sports festival , January 8, 2017)
4 x 200 m: 1:35, 30 min (Dortmund, German Indoor Championships , February 18, 2018)

open air

100 m: 11.33 s (+1.7 m / s) ( Ulm , German Youth Championships (U20) , August 4, 2017)
200 m: 23.89 s (± 0.0 m / s) ( Gladbeck , Borsig Meeting , June 3, 2017)
4 × 100 m: 43.27 s ( Grosseto , U20 European Championships , July 23, 2017)

successes

national

• 2014: German U16 champion (100 m and 4 × 100 m)
• 2014: German U18 champion (4 × 100 m)
• 2015: 3rd place German U20 indoor championships (4 × 200 m)
• 2015: 4th place German U20 indoor championships (60 m)
• 2015: German U18 champion (100 m and 4 × 100 m)
• 2016: German U20 vice indoor champion (60 m)
• 2016: German U18 champion (100 m)
• 2016: German runner-up (4 × 100 m)
• 2017: German U20 indoor champion (60 m)
• 2017: 3rd place German U20 indoor championships (4 × 200 m)
• 2017: German U23 champion (100 m)
• 2017: 3rd place German championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2017: 4th place German Championships (100 m)
• 2017: German U20 champion (100 m)
• 2017: German U20 runner-up (4 × 100 m)
• 2018: German indoor champion (4 × 200 m)
• 2018: German indoor runner-up (60 m)

international

• 2015: 8th place U18 World Championships (100 m)
• 2016: U18 European Champion (100 m)
• 2016: 3rd place U20 World Championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2017: U20 European Champion (4 × 100 m)
• 2017: U20 Vice European Champion (100 m)

Web links

• Keshia Kwadwo in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
• EM-U20 2017 Grosseto team brochure of the DLV, p. 23 (PDF, 25 MB)
• Keshia Beverly Kwadwo on the club side

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Luciana Ferrando: Finally 18 - The house call: Faster than all haters. In: taz.de. December 30, 2017, accessed January 3, 2018 . 
2. ↑ LC is happy about strong newcomers. LC Paderborn, November 30, 2019, accessed on August 10, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Good results at German indoor championships. LC Paderborn, February 25, 2020, accessed on August 10, 2020 . 
4. ↑ squad list 2019/20. (PDF) In: Leichtathletik.de. Retrieved August 10, 2020 . 
5. ↑ At Kwadwo, speed runs in the family . In: reviersport.de , accessed on September 28, 2019.
6. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Flash News of the Day - Keshia Kwadwo: From A as in Abitur to W as in weekend ( memento of the original from January 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, from: Leichtathletik.de, January 2, 2018, accessed January 3, 2018. 
7. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Flash News of the Day - Keshia Kwadwo is Bochum's "Elite Student of Sports"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, from: Leichtathletik.de, October 27, 2017, accessed January 3, 2018.  
8. ↑ U20 sprinters are "Junior Athletes of the Year" in the team ranking , Deutsche Sporthilfe, on: Leichtathletik.de, October 11, 2017, accessed January 3, 2018.