Hugues Fabrice Zango

Hugues Fabrice Zango
Hugues Fabrice Zango (2019)
Full name	Hugues Fabrice Zango
nation	Burkina Faso
birthday	25th June 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso
size	180 cm
Weight	78 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	Open air: 17.66 m Hall: 17.77 m
society	Artois Athletisme
Trainer	Teddy Tamgho
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Africa Games 1 × 0 × 0 × African Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Summer Universiade 0 × 2 × 0 ×
World championships bronze Doha 2019 Triple jump  Africa Games gold Rabat 2019 Triple jump  African Championships silver Durban 2016 Triple jump gold Asaba 2018 Triple jump  Universiade silver Taipei 2017 Triple jump silver Gwangju 2015 Triple jump
last change: February 8, 2020

Hugues Fabrice Zango (born June 25, 1993 in Ouagadougou ) is a Burkinabe track and field athlete who specializes in the triple jump . In 2019 he won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Doha with an African record, the first World Cup medal for his West African homeland.

Athletic career

Hugues Fabrice Zango has been competing in triple jump competitions since 2012. In 2013, he took part in the Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia , as a student at Artois University in Arras . There he qualified for the final with 15.74 m, in which he finished sixth with an increase and a new personal best of 15.96 m. In 2014 he did not enter competitions. A year later he took part in the Universiade in Gwangju in long and triple jump. In the long jump he missed the qualification for the final, in the triple jump, however, he won the silver medal with 16.76 m. In September he finished 5th at the Africa Games in Brazzaville.

In 2016 Zango took part in the African Championships in Durban. There he won the silver medal with a width of 16.81 m in the final. In August he took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. There he failed, however, with 15.99 m in the qualification. In 2017 he again won the silver medal at the Universiade in Taipei. With 16.97 m he again improved his personal best.

In March 2018, Zango took part in the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham. With 17.11 m he was sixth. He jumped this distance at the African Championships in Asaba, through which he became African champion. With the 4-ma-100-meter relay he was also eighth. 2019 was his most successful sporting year so far. In January he jumped a new African record in the hall with 17.58 m. In August he won the Africa Games in Rabat. In October he jumped a new African record in the final of the World Championships in Doha with 17.66 m in the open air and also won the bronze medal, which was the first world championship medal for an athlete from his home country.

Zango lives in Arras, where he is trained by former French triple jump world champion Teddy Tamgho .

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Expanse
Starts for Burkina Faso
2013	Universiade	Kazan	6th	Triple jump	15.96 m
2015	Universiade	Gwangju	30th	Long jump	6.73 m
			2.	Triple jump	16.76 m
	World championships	Beijing		Triple jump	DNS
	Africa Games	Brazzaville	5.	Triple jump	16.36 m
2016	African Championships	Durban	2.	Triple jump	16.81 m
	Olympic games	Rio de Janeiro	34.	Triple jump	15.99 m
2017	Universiade	Taipei	2.	Triple jump	16.97 m
2018	Indoor world championships	Birmingham	6th	Triple jump	17.11 m
	African Championships	Asaba	8th.	4 × 100 m	40.96 s
			1.	Triple jump	17.11 m
2019	Africa Games	Rabat	1.	Triple jump	16.88 m
	World championships	Doha	3.	Triple jump	17.66 m

Personal best

• Triple jump: 17.66 m, September 29, 2019, Doha , (African record)
  • Triple jump (hall): 17.77 m, February 2, 2020, Paris , (African record)

Web links

• Hugues Fabrice Zango in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Hugues Fabrice Zango in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile from the Universiade 2017
2. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Double assault on triple jump records in Madrid ( English ) February 19, 2020. Accessed February 21, 2020.