{{Short description|Burkinabé athlete (born 1993)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox sportsperson |name = Hugues Fabrice Zango |image = File:Hugues Fabrice Zango 2019 (cropped).jpg |caption = Zango in 2019 |nationality = Burkinabe |country = Burkina Faso |sport = Athletics |event = Triple jump |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1993|6|25|df=yes}} |birth_place = Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |education = Artois University (PhD)<ref name="PHD" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://data.2017.gov.taipei/atos/prod/eng/zb/engzb_athletics-athlete-profile-n170589-zango-hugues-fabrice.htm |title=2017 Universiade bio |access-date=2 September 2017 |archive-date=19 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019083553/https://data.2017.gov.taipei/atos/prod/eng/zb/engzb_athletics-athlete-profile-n170589-zango-hugues-fabrice.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> | highestranking = 1st (Triple jump, 2023)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://worldathletics.org/world-rankings/triple-jump/men?regionType=world&page=1&rankDate=2023-12-26 | title=World Rankings &#124; Men's Triple Jump }}</ref> |pb = '''Triple jump:''' 18.07 m<br />'''Long jump:''' 7.71 m |height=1.80m<ref name="rio profile">{{cite web|url=https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/hugues-fabrice-zango |title=Hugues Fabrice Zango |publisher=Rio 2016 |access-date=26 October 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026172118/https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/hugues-fabrice-zango |archive-date=26 October 2016 }}</ref> |weight=78 kg<ref name="rio profile" /> | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport|Men's athletics}} {{Medal|Country|{{BUR}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalBronze|2020 Tokyo|Triple jump}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalGold|2023 Budapest|Triple jump}} {{MedalSilver|2022 Eugene|Triple jump}} {{MedalBronze|2019 Doha|Triple jump}} {{MedalCompetition|World Indoor Championships}} {{MedalGold|2024 Glasgow|Triple jump}} {{Medal|Bronze|2025 Nanjing|Triple jump}} {{Medal|Competition|African Games}} {{Medal|Gold|2019 Rabat|Triple jump}} {{Medal|Gold|2023 Accra|Triple jump}} {{Medal|Competition|African Championships}} {{Medal|Gold|2018 Asaba|Triple jump}} {{Medal|Gold|2022 Mauritius|Triple jump}} {{Medal|Gold|2024 Douala|Triple jump}} {{Medal|Silver|2016 Durban|Triple jump}} {{Medal|Competition|Jeux de la Francophonie}} {{Medal|Gold|2017 Abidjan|Triple jump}} {{Medal|Gold|2023 Kinshasa|Triple jump}} {{Medal|Competition|Summer Universiade}} {{Medal|Silver|2015 Gwangju|Triple jump}} {{Medal|Silver|2017 Taipei|Triple jump}} {{MedalCountry | 20px Africa}} {{Medal|Competition|Continental Cup}} {{Medal|Silver|2018 Ostrava|Triple jump}} }} '''Hugues Fabrice Zango''' (born 25 June 1993) is a Burkinabé athlete who specialises in the triple jump. He is the world indoor record holder in the triple jump with a jump of {{T&Fcalc|18.07}} set in 2021 and the reigning world champion, winning the gold medal in the triple jump at the 2023 World Championships. 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 Burkina Faso's first-ever Olympic medalist, earning a bronze medal in Tokyo, and set the African triple jump record at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha.

==Competition== Zango's debut at an international athletics competition was at the 2013 Summer Universiade, where he competed in the triple jump.<ref name="2013su q">{{cite web | url=http://kazan2013.com/en/st_events/schedule#/hide/en/-240/Comp/Info/ResultList/ATM062901 | title=Athletics: Men's Triple Jump Qualification Round Group A | publisher=Kazan 2013 | access-date=26 October 2016 | archive-date=8 April 2017 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20170408182936/http://kazan2013.com/en/st_events/schedule%23/hide/en/-240/Comp/Info/VO/MedalList/VOM400000#/hide/en/-240/Comp/Info/ResultList/ATM062901 | url-status=usurped }}</ref> In the qualification round his best jump was 15.74 metres, a distance that qualified him for the final.<ref name="2013su q" /> Zango finished sixth with a jump of 15.96 metres in the final.<ref name="K13 final">{{cite web | url=http://kazan2013.com/en/st_events/schedule#/hide/en/-240/Comp/Info/ResultList/ATM062101 | title=Athletics: Men's Triple Jump Final | publisher=Kazan 2013 | access-date=26 October 2016 | archive-date=8 April 2017 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20170408182936/http://kazan2013.com/en/st_events/schedule%23/hide/en/-240/Comp/Info/VO/MedalList/VOM400000#/hide/en/-240/Comp/Info/ResultList/ATM062101 | url-status=usurped }}</ref> 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.<ref name="K13 final" />

Also in 2013 was the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie.<ref name="franc">{{cite web | url=https://www.jeux.francophonie.org/Resultats/static/pdf/JDF2013_Athletisme_Livre%20de%20resultats.pdf | title=Results | publisher=Agence universitaire de la Francophonie | access-date=26 October 2016 | language=fr | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014213127/https://www.jeux.francophonie.org/Resultats/static/pdf/JDF2013_Athletisme_Livre%20de%20resultats.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-date=14 October 2013}}</ref> At the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie, Zango competed in the triple jump.<ref name="franc" /> He jumped 15.97 metres to finish tenth in a twelve-athlete field.<ref name="franc" />

Zango's next major competition was the 2015 Summer Universiade, where he competed in both the long jump and the triple jump.<ref name="su lg">{{cite web | url=http://www.gwangju2015.com/IRS/resGJ2015/pdf/GJ2015/AT/GJ2015_AT_C73O_ATM061902.pdf | title=Men's Long Jump – Qualification Group B | publisher=Gwangju 2015 | access-date=26 October 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114406/http://www.gwangju2015.com/IRS/resGJ2015/pdf/GJ2015/AT/GJ2015_AT_C73O_ATM061902.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref><ref name="2015 su t q">{{cite web | url=http://www.gwangju2015.com/IRS/resGJ2015/pdf/GJ2015/AT/GJ2015_AT_C73O_ATM062901.pdf | title=Men's Triple Jump – Qualification Group A | publisher=Gwangju 2015 | access-date=26 October 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304115145/http://www.gwangju2015.com/IRS/resGJ2015/pdf/GJ2015/AT/GJ2015_AT_C73O_ATM062901.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead}}</ref> In the long jump, Zango's best jump was 6.73 metres, a distance that placed him 30th in qualification, out of 36 athletes.<ref name="su lg" />{{efn|Two athletes; Mehakpreet Singh and Sylvester Nakeel; did not record a legal distance.<ref name="su lg" />|name=15SU (LJ)}} He did not qualify for the final.<ref name="su lg" /> In the triple jump, Zango qualified for the final after jumping a distance of 16.59 metres in the qualification round.<ref name="2015 su t q" /> In the final, Zango jumped 16.76 metres, a distance that won him the silver medal.<ref name="15sugm">{{cite news | url=http://www.pressreader.com/malaysia/the-star-malaysia/20150710/282544426975897 | title=Triple jumper Hakimi a fraction off in Universiade | work=The Star | date=9 July 2015 | access-date=26 October 2016 | author=Wai, Tan Ming}}</ref> Zango's jump was 53 centimetres smaller than the gold-medalist's (Russian Dmitriy Sorokin's) jump of 17.29 metres.<ref name="15sugm" /> 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.<ref name="15sugm" /> Zango was Burkina Faso's only medalist at the 2015 Summer Universiade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gwangju2015.com/IRS/eng/zz/engzz_country_overview_burkina_faso.htm |title=Country Overview – Burkina Faso |publisher=Gwangju 2015 |access-date=26 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114529/http://www.gwangju2015.com/IRS/eng/zz/engzz_country_overview_burkina_faso.htm |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Zango competed at the 2015 World Championships in the triple jump.<ref name="2015 worlds">{{cite web | url=https://www.iaaf.org/results/iaaf-world-championships-in-athletics/2015/15th-iaaf-world-championships-4875/men/triple-jump/qualification/summary#resultheader | title=Triple Jump Men – Qualification – Summary | publisher=IAAF | access-date=26 October 2016}}</ref> In the competition, all three of his jumps were fouls and therefore he recorded no mark (NM).<ref name="2015 worlds" /> Zango then competed in the 2015 African Games.<ref name="brazza15">{{cite web | url=http://brazzaville2015.microplustiming.com/pdf/AT/CLR-ASM-Triple-FINALE-01.PDF | title=Triple Jump – Men – Final | publisher=Brazzaville 2015 | access-date=26 October 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306214923/http://brazzaville2015.microplustiming.com/pdf/AT/CLR-ASM-Triple-FINALE-01.PDF | archive-date=6 March 2016 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> Zango finished fifth in the triple jump with a jump of 16.36 metres.<ref name="brazza15" /> Zango was 19 centimetres behind the bronze medalist, Mamadou Chérif Dia of Mali.<ref name="brazza15" /> At the 2016 African Athletics Championships, Zango won the silver medal in the triple jump.<ref name="caa16">{{cite web | url=http://caa16.co.za/RESULTS/Day4/065_JMPTrippleM25_F0_21023.html | title=Final Men Senior Triple Jump | publisher=Confederation of African Athletics | access-date=26 October 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923130801/http://caa16.co.za/RESULTS/Day4/065_JMPTrippleM25_F0_21023.html | archive-date=23 September 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He jumped 16.81 metres, which was 32 centimetres less than the distance jumped by the gold medalist, Nigerian Tosin Oke.<ref name="caa16" /> 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.<ref name="caa16" />

===2016 Summer Olympics=== At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Zango competed in the triple jump.<ref name="rio profile" /> Zango jumped 15.99 metres in the qualification round.<ref name="olyresults">{{cite web | url=https://www.iaaf.org/results/olympic-games/2016/the-xxxi-olympic-games-5771/men/triple-jump/qualification/summary#resultheader | title=Triple Jump Men – Qualification – Summary | publisher=IAAF | access-date=26 October 2016}}</ref> His jump was the 34th best out of 47 athletes.<ref name="olyresults" />{{efn|Eight athletes; Latario Collie-Minns, Yordanys Durañona, Muhammad Halim, Ruslan Kurbanov, Marian Oprea, Şeref Osmanoğlu, Lasha Torgvaidze and Roman Valiyev; did not record a legal distance.<ref name="olyresults" />|name=16SO (TJ)}} Zango's jump was 62 centimetres less than the shortest jump by an athlete that qualified for the final, Cuban Lázaro Martínez. Therefore, Zango was eliminated from the competition.<ref name="olyresults" />

===2019 World Championships=== Before 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.<ref>[https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/6033/AT-TJ-M-f----.RS6.pdf Results. Triple Jump Men - Final] iaaf.org</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Athletics - Final Results |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-men-s-triple-jump-fnl-000100-.htm |work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics |access-date=August 5, 2021 |archive-date=5 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805001149/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-men-s-triple-jump-fnl-000100-.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Olympic Stadium-Triple Jump A - 3 Aug - 9:00 - Official |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-men-s-triple-jump-qual-a00100-.htm |work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics |access-date=August 5, 2021 |archive-date=5 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805211659/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-men-s-triple-jump-qual-a00100-.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> This was Burkina Faso's first Olympic medal, and Zango earned it on 5 Aug, Burkina's Independence Day.<ref name="Culpepper">{{cite news |last1=Culpepper |first1=Chuck |title=The thing about poignant triple-jump moments? They sneak up on you. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2021/08/05/hugues-fabrice-zango-burkina-faso-triple-jump-medal/ |access-date=August 5, 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=August 5, 2021}}</ref>

==Indoor world record== On 16 Jan 2021, in his final attempt jumping at a jumps-only indoor meet in Aubière, France, Zango jumped {{T&Fcalc|18.07}} to improve his coach, Teddy Tamgho's Indoor World Record by 15&nbsp;cm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/trackandfield/story/_/id/30723742/hugues-fabrice-zango-breaks-world-indoor-triple-jump-record|title=Zango breaks world indoor triple jump record|date=16 January 2021|website=ESPN.com|accessdate=5 August 2021}}</ref> He became the first world record holder from Burkina Faso and the first African to hold a world record in a jumping event.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://olympics.com/en/news/hugues-fabrice-zango-triple-jump-world-record|title=Burkina Faso's Hugues Fabrice Zango breaks indoor triple jump world record|website=Olympics.com|accessdate=5 August 2021}}</ref> The jump ranks him the 6th performer in history, indoors or outdoors.

==Personal bests== {| class="wikitable" |- !Event !Best !Venue !Date !Notes !Citation |- |Triple jump || 18.07 m (indoor)<br />17.82 m || Aubière, France<br />Székesfehérvár || 16 January 2021<br /> 6 July 2021 || WIR AR NR||<ref>{{cite news |title=Zango leaps into record books with world indoor triple jump mark |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/16/zango-leaps-into-record-books-with-world-indoor-triple-jump-mark |access-date=January 16, 2021 |work=aljazeera.com |publisher=Al Jazeera English |date=January 16, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> |- |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|| || |} *<small>All information taken from IAAF profile.</small>

==Competition record== {| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes}} |- !colspan="6"|Representing {{BUR}} |- |rowspan=2|2013 |Universiade |Kazan, Russia |6th |Triple jump |15.96 m |- |Jeux de la Francophonie |Nice, France |10th |Triple jump |15.97 m |- |rowspan=4|2015 |rowspan=2|Universiade |rowspan=2|Gwangju, South Korea |30th (q) |Long jump |6.73 m |- |bgcolor=silver|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 |- |rowspan=2|2016 |African Championships |Durban, South Africa |bgcolor=silver|2nd |Triple jump |16.81 m |- |Olympic Games |Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |34th (q) |Triple jump |15.99 m |- |rowspan=2|2017 |Jeux de la Francophonie |Abidjan, Ivory Coast |bgcolor=gold|1st |Triple jump |16.92 m (w) |- |Universiade |Taipei, Taiwan |bgcolor=silver|2nd |Triple jump |16.97 m |- |rowspan=3|2018 |World Indoor Championships |Birmingham, United Kingdom |6th |Triple jump |17.11 m |- |rowspan=2|African Championships |rowspan=2|Asaba, Nigeria |8th |4 × 100 m relay |40.96 s |- |bgcolor=gold|1st |Triple jump |17.11 m NR |- |rowspan=2|2019 |African Games |Rabat, Morocco |bgcolor=gold|1st |Triple jump |16.88 m |- |World Championships |Doha, Qatar |bgcolor="cc9966" |3rd |Triple jump |17.66 m {{AthAbbr|AR|African}} |- |2021 |Olympic Games |Tokyo, Japan |bgcolor="cc9966" |3rd |Triple jump |17.47 m |- |rowspan=2|2022 |African Championships |Port Louis, Mauritius |bgcolor=gold|1st |Triple jump |17.34 m (w) |- |World Championships |Eugene, United States |bgcolor=silver|2nd |Triple jump |17.55 m |- |rowspan=2|2023 |Jeux de la Francophonie |Kinshasa, DR Congo |bgcolor=gold|1st |Triple jump |17.11 m |- |World Championships |Budapest, Hungary |bgcolor=gold|1st |Triple jump |17.64 m |- |rowspan=4|2024 |World Indoor Championships |Glasgow, United Kingdom |bgcolor=gold|1st |Triple jump |17.53 m |- |African Games |Accra, Ghana |bgcolor=gold|1st |Triple jump |16.97 m |- |African Championships |Douala, Cameroon |bgcolor=gold|1st |Triple jump |17.18 m |- |Olympic Games |Paris, France |5th |Triple jump |17.50 m |- |rowspan=2|2025 |World Indoor Championships |Nanjing, China |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |Triple jump |17.15 m |- |World Championships |Tokyo, Japan |7th |Triple jump |16.92 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. Subsequently, he began working on a PhD degree in electrical engineering at the same university.<ref>[https://www.jeux.francophonie.org/sites/default/files/public/wysiwyg/revue_de_presse_mars_2018.pdf Revue de presse: Press review March 2018] - website of the Jeux de la Francophonie</ref><ref>[http://www.univ-artois.fr/sites/default/files/2021-06/ARTOIS_MAG_24_BD.pdf Un nouvel exploit mondial pour Fabrice Zango, doctorant à la FSA !] - website of the University of Artois</ref> He completed this degree on 22 December 2023.<ref name="PHD">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/67762889 |last1=Karoney |first1=Celestine |title=Hugues Fabrice Zango wants to be 'a symbol of hope' for Burkina Faso |publisher=BBC Sport |date=29 December 2023 |access-date=3 January 2024}}</ref>

== See also ==

* Burkina Faso at the Olympics

==Notes== {{notelist}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category}} * {{World Athletics|name=Hugues Fabrice Zango}} * {{Olympics.com|name=Hugues Fabrice Zango}} * {{Olympedia|name=Hugues Zango}} * {{InterSportStats|3000016129|Hugues Zango}} * {{2019 African Games profile|athletics-athlete-profile-n1000832-zango-hugues-fabrice|Hugues Fabrice Zango}}

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