Hugues Fabrice Zango

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. This was Burkina Faso's first Olympic medal, and Zango earned it on 5 Aug, Burkina's Independence Day.

Indoor world record On 16 Jan 2021, in his final attempt jumping at a jumps-only indoor meet in Aubière, France, Zango jumped to improve his coach, Teddy Tamgho's Indoor World Record by 15 cm. He became the first world record holder from Burkina Faso and the first African to hold a world record in a jumping event. The jump ranks him the 6th performer in history, indoors or outdoors.

Personal bests EventBestVenueDateNotesCitationTriple jump 18.07 m (indoor)17.82 m Aubière, FranceSzékesfehérvár 16 January 2021 6 July 2021 WIR AR NR 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.

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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. Subsequently, he began working on a PhD degree in electrical engineering at the same university. He completed this degree on 22 December 2023.