Gérard Kobéané

Gérard Kobéané

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

Gérard Kobéané (born 24 April 1988 in Karankasso-Vigué Department) is a Burkinabé sprinter. 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)