{{short description|Burundian middle-distance runner}} {{MedalTableTop|image=IAAF World Challenge - Meeting Madrid 2017 - 170714 214521.jpg|image_size=280px|caption=Gakeme running during the IAAF World Challenge Meeting Madrid 2017}} {{MedalSport|Men's athletics}} {{MedalCountry|{{BDI}}}} {{MedalCompetition|World Indoor Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2016 Portland|800 m}} {{MedalBottom}} '''Antoine Gakeme''' (born 24 December 1991) is a Burundian middle-distance runner who competes mainly in the 800 metres. He represented Burundi at the 2013 World Championships and was a finalist at the 2014 African Championships.
==Career== Gakeme represented Burundi in the 800 metres at the 2013 World Championships; he set personal bests in both the heats (1:46.70) and semi-finals (1:45.39), but failed to qualify for the final.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://burundi-agnews.org/sports-and-games/?p=8081 |title=Burundi: L'athlétisme se porte bien chez les Barundi |language=French |publisher=burundi-agnews.org |date=17 August 2013 |access-date=15 August 2015}}</ref><ref name="tp">{{tilastopaja|id=119534}}</ref> At the 2014 African Championships in Marrakesh he placed seventh.<ref name="tp"/> In 2015, Gakeme won the 800 metres at the European Champion Clubs Cup, running a championship record 1:45.77; he was also part of Playas de Castellón's 4 × 400 metres relay team, which won in 3:07.92. Playas de Castellón won the club championship by two points.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.european-athletics.org/competitions/eccc-track-and-field-senior/ |publisher=European Athletics |title=Spanish clubs land double glory |date=1 June 2015 |access-date=15 August 2015}}</ref>
Gakeme set his personal best (1:44.09) in Madrid in July 2015.<ref name="tp"/>
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==External links== *{{World Athletics}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gakeme, Antoine}} Category:1991 births Category:Living people Category:Burundian men middle-distance runners Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Burundi Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic athletes for Burundi Category:21st-century Burundian sportsmen {{Burundi-athletics-bio-stub}}