Antoine Gakeme

Antoine Gakeme
Antoine Gakeme (2017)
Full name	Antoine Gakeme
nation	Burundi
birthday	24th December 1991 (age 28)
place of birth	Musongati ,  Burundi
size	169 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	800 meter run
Best performance	1: 44.09 min
society	Playas de Castellón FS
status	active
Medal table
Indoor world championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Indoor world championships silver Portland 2016 1500 m
last change: June 25, 2020

Antoine Gakeme (born December 24, 1991 in Musongati , Rutana ) is a Burundian athlete who specializes in the 800-meter run . In 2016 he became vice world champion in this discipline .

Athletic career

Antoine Gakeme first appeared at the U20 African Championships in Mauritius in 2009 at an international championship over 800 meters, but was eliminated in the run-up. His next international appearance was the World Championships in Moscow four years later . He survived the pre-run with a new best time and improved his time in the semifinals again to 1: 45.39 min, with which he narrowly missed the entry into the final as fourth of his run. Later he qualified for the African Championships in Marrakech. After a successful run-up, he reached the finish line in 1: 49.74 minutes in seventh place. Gakeme has been training in Spain since 2015. There he took part in the spring, among other things, in the Spanish indoor championships, where he was able to win over 1500 meters. He competed in Europe throughout the season. In July he ran a time of 1: 44.09 minutes in Madrid, which has been his best time ever since. He could not confirm this time at the World Championships in Beijing in August , which is why he, like two years before, was eliminated again in the semifinals. In the spring of 2016, Gakeme first competed at the World Indoor Championships in Portland. There he moved into the final, in which he ran a personal best indoor time of 1: 46.65 minutes, with which he became indoor vice world champion. In the course of the year he also qualified for the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. There he did not get beyond the lead.

In 2017 he took part in his third World Championships in London . As with his previous participations, he did not make it into the final again. In 2018 Gakeme competed at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham. As fourth of his prelim, he missed making it into the final as fourth. In August he started at the African Championships in Nigeria. As in 2014, he made it into the final, in which he was only a hundredth of a second short of the bronze rank with a time of 1: 45.91 minutes, which the Moroccan Mostafa Smaili secured. In 2019, he missed participation in the World Championships in Doha.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	time
Starts for Burundi
2009	U20 African Championships	Bambous	?	800 m	1: 52.81 min
2013	World championships	Moscow	10	800 m	1: 45.39 min
2014	African Championships	Marrakech	7th	800 m	1: 49.74 min
2015	World championships	Beijing	22nd	800 m	1: 48.86 min
2016	Indoor world championships	Portland	2.	800 m	1: 46.65 min
	Olympic Summer Games	Rio de Janeiro	32.	800 m	1: 47.46 min
2017	World championships	London	21st	800 m	1: 46.64 min
2018	Indoor world championships	Birmingham	9.	800 m	1: 49.66 min
	African Championships	Asaba	4th	800 m	1: 45.91 min

Personal best

open air

• 800 m : 1: 44.09 min, July 11, 2015, Madrid
• 1000 m : 2: 16.85 min, June 10, 2018, Stockholm
• 1500 m : 3: 40.36 min, May 28, 2016, Mersin

Hall

• 800 m: 1: 46.65 min, March 19, 2016, Portland
• 1000 m: 2: 20.25 min, February 17, 2016, Stockholm
• 1500 m: 3: 52.58 min, January 30, 2016, Valencia

Others

Antoine Gakeme comes from the south-eastern province of Rutana in the central African state of Burundi. He lives in the Spanish city of Castellón de la Plana on the Mediterranean Sea, where he trains at the local Playas de Castellón FS .

Web links

• Antoine Gakeme in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Antoine Gakeme in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Burundi: L'athlétisme se porte bien chez les Barundi. August 19, 2013, accessed June 25, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Profile on sports-reference.com; archived from the original