Judith Mokobe
Judith Bilepo Mokobe is a German sprinter. She won the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships title over 200 metres at the age of 18 years-old.
Career
From Mainz, she trains as a member of USC Mainz, although she came to athletics relatively late, only starting in 2022. She won the 60 metres title at the U18 Rhineland-Palatinate Championship in January 2023. She went on to became the German youth champion in July 2023 in Rostock over 200 metres.She set a personal best for the 200 metres of 23.64 seconds in placing third at the 2024 German U23 Championships in Mönchengladbach as a 17 year-old. She was a semi-finalist in the 200 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru.
She competed at the Kurpfalz Gala in Weinheim for USC Mainz and set a personal best of 23.11 seconds for the 200 metres in May 2025. The time also improved the Rhineland-Palatinate record for U20 runners, which had been held by Andreas Bersch since 1982. It was also the fastest U20 time by a German runner since Gina Lückenkemper.
She ran 23.87 seconds to qualify for the semi-finals at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, before reaching the final with a personal-best-equalling run of 23.11 in her semi-final. She then proceeded to win the gold medal in the final, running 23.40 seconds into a headwind. In winning the title at the age of 18 years-old, she became the first German woman to win the title since Gina Lückenkemper in 2010.