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Hugues Fabrice Zango breaks world indoor triple jump record

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Published in Athletics
Saturday, 16 January 2021 09:34
World bronze medallist soars out to 18.07m in Aubiere

Hugues Fabrice Zango started his season in superb style by smashing the world indoor triple jump record in France on Saturday (January 16).

The 27-year-old world bronze medallist soared out to a mark of 18.07m at the Meeting d’Aubiere to become the first athlete to go further than 18 metres indoors.

The performance, which Zango achieved in the final round, adds 15cm to the previous record which had been set by his coach Teddy Tamgho also in France, at the European Indoor Championships in 2011.

It sees Zango become the first African man to hold a world record in a jumps event, while he is also the first from Burkina Faso to set a world record.

Zango, whose previous indoor best was 17.77m, also holds the African record outdoors with the 17.66m he recorded to claim bronze at the World Championships in Doha in 2019 (pictured below).

He was featured as one of AW‘s ‘five big breakthroughs’ for the summer of 2020 in the October relaunch magazine, where his continued progression with a series of 17-metre jumps was noted.

Alongside his career in athletics, Zango is studying for a PhD in electrical engineering in Lille and has ambitions of becoming a professor to teach in Burkina Faso one day.

Photo by Mark Shearman

Zango’s series on Saturday included jumps of 17.33m in the second round, 17.61m in the fourth and 17.70m in the fifth before he made history with his final leap.

Finishing second in Aubiere was France’s Melvin Raffin with 16.98m, while his compatriot Jean-Marc Pontvianne was third with 16.49m.

Lead photo by Benjamin Soreau

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