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Zango lands first 18m-plus indoor triple jump

Burkina Faso’s Hugues Fabrice Zango became the first athlete to triple jump over 18 metres indoors with a 18.07m effort in Aubiere, France. The 27-year-old’s…

Burkina Faso’s Hugues Fabrice Zango became the first athlete to triple jump over 18 metres indoors with a 18.07m effort in Aubiere, France.

The 27-year-old’s effort breaks the 17.92m indoor world record set by his French coach Teddy Tamgho in 2011.

Zango, who won world bronze behind the USA’s Christian Taylor and Will Claye in 2019, hopes to win his country’s first Olympic medal in Tokyo this year.

Zango combines his sport with studying electrical engineering at university.

He is based at a university in Bethune, close to Lille, in northern France.

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