The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Burkina Faso
This page contains a list of the greatest Burkinabe Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 3,059 Athletes, 1 of which were born in Burkina Faso. This makes Burkina Faso the birth place of the 131st most number of Athletes behind São Tomé and Príncipe and Bermuda.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Burkinabe Athletes of all time. This list of famous Burkinabe Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Hugues Fabrice Zango (1993 - )
With an HPI of 27.98, Hugues Fabrice Zango is the most famous Burkinabe Athlete. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Hugues Fabrice Zango (born 25 June 1993) is a Burkinabé athlete who specialises in the triple jump and the long jump. He is the world indoor record holder in the triple jump with a jump of 18.07 m (59 ft 3+1⁄4 in) 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 the first-ever Olympic medalist for Burkina Faso earning a bronze medal and set the African triple jump record at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as athletes born between 1993 and 1993. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living athletes include Hugues Fabrice Zango.
