Triple jump: the Burkinabè Zango first man over 18 m indoors

Pextraordinary performance as that of Hugues-Fabrice Zango who smashed this Saturday in Aubière the world record for the triple indoor jump by making a jump of 18.07 m which erases from the shelves that of his trainer, the French Teddy Tamgho, who l ‘had increased to 17.92 m in 2011. With this jump, the 27-year-old Burkinabè becomes the first man to exceed 18 m indoors. Highlight: he exploded at the same time his best personal mark, 17.77 m, achieved in January 2020. Note: Zango’s outdoor record which is also the African record is 17.66 m. After jumping to 17.33 m (2nd try), 17.61 m (4th try) and 17.70 m (5th try), the Burkinabé waited for his last attempt to execute his historic jump giving his country a first record of the world in athletics.

Zango, an athlete already in sight who confirms the hopes placed in him

Zango, bronze medalist at the Doha Worlds behind the Americans Christian Taylor and Will Claye in 2019, thus confirms his place among the leaders of the discipline and strikes a very big blow seven months before the Tokyo Olympics. “When the student overtakes his teacher, tweeted Teddy Tamgho. We already knew that the record had to fall. Now, we go back to work because we must not stop there.”

Spotted late at the age of 18 in his country and arrived in France in 2015 with a student visa, Zango leads his career as a high-level athlete perfectly together with his studies at the university in Béthune, southwest of Lille, where he is preparing a thesis in electrical engineering. Integrated into Teddy Tamgho’s structure in July 2018, Zango has since experienced spectacular progress and his results really took off from 2019. Very ambitious, he told AFP in September that he came to athletics “by chance. “while nurturing a” big dream “:” Bring the triple jump to another planet “. The outdoor world record of Briton Jonathan Edwards (18.29 m), who has held up since 1995, however seems difficult to achieve for the moment.


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