Rutger Beke

Rutger Beke, from Belgium, is known both nationally and internationally as an excellent professional triathlete. Thanks to his persistence and 10 years of hard training work, Rutger now belongs to the world top of long distance triathlon.
Rutger started his career in 1995 at age 17. In 2002, at age 25, he managed to reach the international top, thanks to a bronze medal in the World Championship Long Distance in Nice. Another 18 months later he finished second as a rookie in the Ironman Hawaii 2003.
In 2004 he confirms with a 5th place in Hawaii, but the next 11 months he is kept away from racing because of false accusations of doping use. On August 9 2005 the Belgian Court finally declares Rutger not guilty, after seeing evidence from the universities of Leuven and Ghent, which proves that the EPO doping test of WADA does not work properly in Rutger's case and that he can get false-positive test results. During all these difficult months, Rutger not only kept fighting the false accusations, but he also continued his training program like a real pro.
That helps him a lot to win the half Ironman Monaco on September 4 2005, his return into the competition.  6 weeks later he finishes in the TOP-5 of the World Championship in Hawaii for the third consecutive year with a fourth place.

Rutger is mainly known as an excellent runner, even though biking has become his strongest discipline in 2003.

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