Hugues Fabrice Zango has become the first Burkinabe athlete to set a world record when he posted the longest ever indoor triple jump with a leap of 18.07 metres (59.28 feet).
In the triple jump, Hugues Fabrice Zango gave the West African nation of Burkina Faso its first global athletics title when he won with a mark of 17.64m.
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Cubans Lazaro Martinez and Cristian Napoles won silver and bronze.
“The competition was easy for me,” said Zango, who won world silver last year and also claimed his country’s first-ever Olympic medal with a bronze in Tokyo in 2021.
Zango’s path to glory was made easier by the first-round withdrawal through injury of much-vaunted 18-year-old Jamaican Jaydon Hibbert.
