Jente Hauttekeete (14 March 2002) is a Belgian athlete specializing in the heptathlon and the decathlon.
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Hauttekeete was born in 2002. His father, Hendrik Hauttekeete, was a long jumper and sprinter, while his mother Melanie Moreels, a 6-times Belgian champion, was a specialist of the 400m hurdles and the heptathlon. [1]
At the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, he won the silver medal in the decathlon, behind Sander Skotheim. [2]
In February 2021, he broke the world record in his age group (the under-20) for the heptathlon, becoming the first to break the 6000 points barrier. [3] [4]
In 2021, he won the European Athletics U20 Championships, breaking his own Belgian record for his age group with 8150 points, which was also the best performance by an under-20 athlete that year, and the 4th-best ever. [4]
In February 2022, Hauttekeete won the Belgian Indoor Championships in the heptathlon with a total of 5680 points. [5]
At the 2024 European Athletics Championships, he finished 8th in the decathlon with 8156 points, a new personal best. [6]
Hauttekeette broke the Belgian U23 record and became the third best Belgian overall in the decathlon when he set a new personal record of 8268 points at the Décastar meeting in France in September 2024. [7]
