Gérard Kobéané

Gérard Kobéané

Kobéané at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Born	(1988-04-24) 24 April 1988 (age 33) Karangasso-Vigué Department, Burkina Faso
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight	74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	100 m, 200 m

Gérard Kobéané (born 24 April 1988 in Karangasso-Vigué Department) is a Burkinabé sprinter.^[2] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the 100 metres preliminaries advancing to the first round where he was eliminated.

Competition record[]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Burkina Faso
2007	African Junior Championships	Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso	10th (sf)	100 m	11.08
2009	Universiade	Belgrade, Serbia	14th (sf)	100 m	10.53
	Jeux de la Francophonie	Beirut, Lebanon	8th (sf)	100 m	10.45
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	39.57
2010	African Championships	Nairobi, Kenya	11th (sf)	100 m	10.45
			7th	4 × 100 m relay	40.251
2011	Universiade	Shenzhen, China	24th (qf)	100 m	10.57
	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	39th (h)	100 m	10.59
	All-Africa Games	Maputo, Mozambique	8th	100 m	10.45
			14th (sf)	200 m	21.69
2012	African Championships	Porto Novo, Benin	11th (sf)	100 m	10.56
			19th (h)	200 m	21.52
			–	4 × 100 m relay	DNF
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	43rd (h)	100 m	10.48
2013	Jeux de la Francophonie	Nice, France	7th	100 m	10.74
			7th	200 m	21.63
			4th	4 × 100 m relay	40.35
2015	African Games	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo	12th (sf)	100 m	10.44
			22nd (h)	200 m	21.39
			12th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	48.18
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, United States	34th (h)	60 m	6.80
2017	Jeux de la Francophonie	Abidjan, Ivory Coast	14th (h)	100 m	10.70
			–	200 m	DQ
			7th	4 × 100 m relay	41.21
			6th	4 × 400 m relay	3:18.13

¹Disqualified in the final

Personal bests[]

Outdoor

• 100 metres – 10.29 (+2.0 m/s, Maputo 2011)
• 200 metres – 21.38 (-0.6 m/s, Porto Novo 2012)

Indoor

• 60 metres – 6.76 (Birmingham 2016)

References[]

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