Joel Mattli is a Swiss athlete, ninja warrior competitor and Guinness World Record holder in the flying bar discipline. Born in Zürich in 1994, he took up ninja warrior sport while studying at the University of St. Gallen and became known from 2018 through repeated appearances on several ninja warrior television shows. He won the Austrian edition of the show in 2022 as its first winner, and in 2023 set the flying bar record in Milan.
Career and achievements
Mattli grew up in Zürich with his older sister and completed a Master of Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen in autumn 2021. He gained wide attention through his repeated participation in the ninja warrior shows in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In February 2023 he set the Guinness World Record in the flying bar discipline in Milan, in which an athlete jumps from one movable bar to the next.
Television and later activities
In 2026 Mattli took part in the nineteenth series of the RTL dance show Let's Dance with his dance partner Malika Dzumaev, finishing in third place. In the same year he competed in the Jetski Star World Championship. He also works as an advertising model and speaker and lives in Adlikon near Regensdorf.