Zango Hugues’ flight: 18.07m, Indoor World Record in Triple Jump!

Athletics, indoor
January 16, 2021

Zango Hugues, 27 years old from Burkina Faso, surpasses his coach Teddy Tamgo (17.92 in 2011) and becomes the first world record holder from Africa in the triple jump competition!

The 2021 international indoor athletics season is immediately revived at the beginning of the year.

In Aubiere, France, 27-year-old Fabrice Zango Hugues, from Burkina Faso, takes the world record in the triple jump to a brilliant 18.07m.

The winner of the bronze medal in force for this race, surpasses his coach, the Frenchman Teddy Tamgho, who on March 6, 2011, at the European Championship in Paris-Bercy, touched the distance of 17.92m.

This is the first case in the history of the triple jump (indoor) beyond 18 meters.

Hugues becomes the seventh athlete in the general classification in the history of this race after the British Jonathan Edwards (18.29), the Americans Christian Taylor (18.21), Will Claye (18.14) and Kenny Harrison (18.09), the Cuban Pedro Pablo Piachardo (18.08) and himself Tamgho (18.04), world indoor champion in Doha 2010 and outdoor in Moscow 2013.

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