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Hugues Fabrice Zango (born 25 June 1993) is a Burkinabé athlete who specialises in the triple jump and the long jump. Pending ratification, he is the world indoor record holder in the triple jump with a jump of 18.07 m (59 ft 3+1⁄4 in) set in 2021. Zango competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and won the bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan in the triple jump event, the first ever Olympic medal for Burkina Faso. He has also competed in World Championships, two African athletics championships, a Jeux de la Francophonie, two Summer Universiades and two African Games. He became the first-ever medalist for Burkina Faso with a bronze medal and African record at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha.

Hugues Fabrice Zango

Zango in 2019
Personal information
Nationality	Burkinabe
Born	(1993-06-25) 25 June 1993 (age 29) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Education	Artois University[1]
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)[2]
Sport
Country	Burkina Faso
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Triple jump Long jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	Triple jump: 18.07 m Long jump: 7.71 m
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Burkina Faso Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Triple jump World Championships 2022 Eugene Triple jump 2019 Doha Triple jump Continental Cup 2018 Ostrava Triple jump African Championships 2018 Asaba Triple jump 2016 Durban Triple jump Summer Universiade 2015 Gwangju Triple jump 2017 Taipei Triple jump

Competition

Zango's debut at an international athletics competition was at the 2013 Summer Universiade, where he competed in the triple jump.[3] In the qualification round his best jump was 15.74 metres, a distance that qualified him for the final.[3] In the final, Zango finished sixth with a jump of 15.96 metres.[4] His jump was 1.05 metres smaller than the jump of gold medalist, Ukrainian Viktor Kuznyetsov, and 61 centimetres smaller than the bronze medalist, Kazakhstani Yevgeniy Ektov.[4]

Also in 2013 was the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie.[5] At the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie, Zango competed in the triple jump.[5] He jumped 15.97 metres to finished tenth in a twelve-athlete field.[5]

Zango's next major competition was the 2015 Summer Universiade, where he competed in both the long jump and the triple jump.[6][7] In the long jump, Zango's best jump was 6.73 metres, a distance that placed him 30th in qualification, out of 36 athletes.[6][lower-alpha 1] He did not qualify for the final.[6] In the triple jump, Zango qualified for the final after jumping a distance of 16.59 metres in the qualification round.[7] In the final, Zango jumped 16.76 metres, a distance that won him the silver medal.[8] Zango's jump was 53 centimetres smaller than the gold-medalist's (Russian Dmitriy Sorokin's) jump of 17.29 metres.[8] Zango jumped the same distance as bronze medalist Xu Xiaolong (China) but, as Zango's second best jump was further than Xiaolong's, Zango won the silver medal on count back.[8] Zango was Burkina Faso's only medalist at the 2015 Summer Universiade.[9]

Zango competed at the 2015 World Championships in the triple jump.[10] In the competition, all three of his jumps were fouls and therefore he recorded no mark (NM).[10] Zango then competed in the 2015 African Games.[11] Zango finished fifth in the triple jump with a jump of 16.36 metres.[11] Zango was 19 centimetres behind the bronze medalist, Mamadou Chérif Dia of Mali.[11] At the 2016 African Athletics Championships, Zango won the silver medal in the triple jump.[12] He jumped 16.81 metres, which was 32 centimetres less than the distance jumped by the gold medalist, Nigerian Tosin Oke.[12] Zango jumped four centimetres further than the bronze medalist, Godfrey Khotso Mokoena of South Africa, and 20 centimetres further than the fourth-placed athlete, Mauritian Jonathan Drack.[12]

2016 Summer Olympics

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Zango competed in the triple jump.[2] In the qualification round, Zango jumped 15.99 metres.[13] His jump was the 34th best out of 47 athletes.[13][lower-alpha 2] Zango's jump was 62 centimetres less than the shortest jump by an athlete that qualified for the final, Cuban Lázaro Martínez, and therefore, Zango was eliminated from the competition.[13]

2019 World Championships

Prior to the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Burkina Faso's best Athletics World Championship result was 10th place for Franck Zio in the long jump at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg. Qualifying for the final in Doha, Zango performed consistently well with 17.46 m in round 2 and 17.56 m in round 5, before setting a new African Record with a distance of 17.66 m in the sixth and final round.[14] With this record, Zango claimed the bronze medal - his (and Burkina Faso's) first at a major championship.

2020 Summer Olympics

In the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in 2021, Zango won the bronze medal (and so far the only one for his country in the Olympics) in the men's triple jump with a distance of 17.47 meters. He qualified for the final with a distance of 16.83 meters in the earlier heats. Going into the event, he was ranked fourth in the world and had a personal and season best of 18.07 meters.[15][16] This was Burkina Faso's first Olympic medal, and Zango earned it on August 5, Burkina's Independence Day.[17]

Indoor world record

On January 16, 2021, in his final attempt jumping at a jumps only indoor meet in Aubière, France, Zango jumped 18.07 m (59 ft 3+1⁄4 in) to improve his coach, Teddy Tamgho's Indoor World Record by 15 cm.[18] He became the first world record holder from Burkina Faso and the first African to hold a world record in a jumping event.[19] The jump ranks him the 6th performer in history, indoors or outdoors.

Personal bests

Event	Best	Venue	Date	Notes	Citation
Triple jump	18.07 m (indoor) 17,82 m	Aubière, France Székesfehérvár	16 January 2021 6 July 2021	WIR AR NR	[20]
Long jump	7.71 m	Pierre-Bénite, France	28 August 2020
100 metres	10.72 s	Tergnier, France	25 May 2017
200 metres	23.08 s	Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, France	1 May 2017

• All information taken from IAAF profile.

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Burkina Faso
2013	Universiade	Kazan, Russia	6th	Triple jump	15.96 m
	Jeux de la Francophonie	Nice, France	10th	Triple jump	15.97 m
2015	Universiade	Gwangju, South Korea	30th (q)	Long jump	6.73 m
			2nd	Triple jump	16.76 m
	World Championships	Beijing, China	–	Triple jump	NM
	African Games	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo	5th	Triple jump	16.36 m
2016	African Championships	Durban, South Africa	2nd	Triple jump	16.81 m
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	34th (q)	Triple jump	15.99 m
2017	Jeux de la Francophonie	Abidjan, Ivory Coast	1st	Triple jump	16.92 m (w)
	Universiade	Taipei, Taiwan	2nd	Triple jump	16.97 m
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	6th	Triple jump	17.11 m
	African Championships	Asaba, Nigeria	8th	4 × 100 m relay	40.96 s
			1st	Triple jump	17.11 m NR
2019	African Games	Rabat, Morocco	1st	Triple jump	16.88 m
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	3rd	Triple jump	17.66 m AR
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	3rd	Triple jump	17.47 m
2022	African Championships	Port Louis, Mauritius	1st	Triple jump	17.34 m (w)
	World Championships	Eugene, United States	2nd	Triple jump	17.55 m

Personal life

Zango graduated with a Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical energy, and Automation from the University of Artois (Hauts-de-France, France) in 2018, and subsequently he is working on a PhD degree in electrical engineering at the same university.[21][22] He expects to complete the degree in 2022.[17]

Notes

References

External links

• Hugues Fabrice Zango at World Athletics
• Hugues Fabrice Zango at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

Records
Preceded by Tarik Bouguetaïb	Men's Triple jump African Record Holder 29 September 2019 – present	Incumbent
Preceded by Teddy Tamgho	Men's Triple Jump Indoor World Record Holder 16 January 2021 – present	Incumbent
Olympic Games
Preceded by Rachid Sidibé	Flagbearer for  Burkina Faso Tokyo 2020 with Angelika Ouedraogo	Succeeded by Incumbent

На других языках

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- [en] Hugues Fabrice Zango

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[es] Hugues Fabrice Zango

Hugues Fabrice Zango (Uagadugú, 25 de junio de 1993) es un deportista burkinés que compite en atletismo.[1]

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[fr] Hugues Fabrice Zango

Hugues Fabrice Zango, né le 25 juin 1993 à Ouagadougou, est un athlète burkinabé, spécialiste du triple saut. Il est médaillé de bronze aux championnats du monde de Doha en 2019 ainsi qu'aux Jeux Olympiques de Tokyo en 2021.

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[it] Hugues Fabrice Zango

Hugues Fabrice Zango (Ouagadougou, 25 giugno 1993) è un triplista burkinabé, detentore del record mondiale indoor della specialità con la misura di 18,07 m.

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[ru] Занго, Юг Фабрис

Юг Фабрис Занго (англ. Hugues Fabrice Zango; род. 25 июня 1993[1][2], Уагадугу) — африканский легкоатлет, представляющий Буркина-Фасо, который специализируется в тройном прыжке, бронзовый призёр Олимпийских игр 2020 года, бронзовый призёр чемпионата мира 2019 года, чемпион Африканских игр 2019 года, чемпион Африки 2018 года, призёр двух летних Универсиад. Участник летних Олимпийских игр 2016 года. Единственный призёр Олимпийских игр в истории Буркина-Фасо.

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