Rutger Beke (pronounced "bay-kuh") (Halle, 8 August 1977) is a retired Belgian triathlete living in Leuven.

[1] Rutger Beke started competing in the sport of triathlon when he was 17.

In August 2005, the Commission reversed its decision and exonerated him based on scientific and medical information presented by Beke.

He asserted that his sample had become degraded as a result of bacterial contamination and that the substance identified by the laboratory as pharmaceutical EPO was, in fact, an unrelated protein indistinguishable from pharmaceutical EPO in the test method.

He claimed, therefore, that the test had produced a false positive result in his case.