Hugues-Fabrice Zango achieved a huge feat this Saturday.
In Aubière (Puy-de-Dôme), the Burkinabé clearly improved the world record for the triple indoor jump (18.07 m) which belonged to his trainer, the French Teddy Tamgho (17.92 m, in Paris, in 2011).
18.07m 🤯
Incredible way to start the year from @HuguesZango_TS 🙌pic.twitter.com / vIqqEslqhm
- World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) January 16, 2021
At 27, Zango exploded at the same time his best mark, established in January 2020 (17.77 m).
Two days earlier, on Twitter, he had announced the color.
"A certain Mr. Teddy Tamgho has already made 17m91 in this room… is it magic?
He wrote.
In this "magical" room, but without an audience, the open-air African record holder (17.66 m) achieved a historic performance.
Proud of his protégé, Tamgho, for his part, published a photo of the man of the day, accompanied by a caption: "When the student exceeds his master".
Thanks to the people of 🇧🇫 we bring you part of the promise !!
@HuguesZango_TS When the student overtakes his master !!!
pic.twitter.com/cGcOp0l6Wt
- Tamgho Teddy (Talla Kengne) (@TeddyTamgho) January 16, 2021
Teddy Tamgho retired in 2019, at the age of 30, at the end of a career rich in titles (indoor world champion in 2010 and outdoor in 2013, European indoor champion in 2011, winner of the Diamond League in 2010) and in injuries, which notably deprived him of the London Olympics in 2012.
Even before his retirement, he had started to put on his coaching clothes, alongside Frenchmen Melvin Raffin and Rouguy Diallo, and Zango.
After building his athletic legend, the French record holder (18.04 m) is therefore experiencing his first feat as a coach this Saturday.
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The outdoor world record is still the property of Briton Jonathan Edwards.
At the Worlds in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1995, he jumped 18.29 m.
If coach Tamgho and Hugues-Fabrice Zango are looking for a new goal, it is all found.
