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Hugues Fabrice Zango

1993 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugues Fabrice Zango has received more than 127,067 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Hugues Fabrice Zango is the 3,205th most popular athlete (down from 3,013th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Burkina Faso (down from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Burkinabe Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Hugues Fabrice Zango ranks 3,205 out of 6,025Before him are Tegla Loroupe, Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Patrick Makau Musyoki, Walter D'Hondt, Jang Mi-ran, and Dorothee Schneider. After him are Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, Thiago Braz da Silva, Valentina Tserbe-Nessina, Steve Hooker, Semen Novikov, and Olga Kaniskina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1993, Hugues Fabrice Zango ranks 257Before him are Badr Banoun, Alicia von Rittberg, Sam Kerr, Zakaria Labyad, Jackson Irvine, and Vincent Poirier. After him are Thiago Braz da Silva, Alice Merton, Leonardo Bittencourt, Matías Kranevitter, Bang Min-ah, and José Campaña.

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In Burkina Faso

Among people born in Burkina Faso, Hugues Fabrice Zango ranks 33 out of 49Before him are Cheikh Lô (1955), Jonathan Pitroipa (1986), Lassina Zerbo (1963), Charles Kaboré (1988), Bakary Koné (1988), and Alain Traoré (1988). After him are Edmond Tapsoba (1999), Alban Lafont (1999), Fanta Régina Nacro (1962), Préjuce Nakoulma (1987), Lassina Traoré (2001), and Adama Guira (1988).

Among ATHLETES In Burkina Faso

Among athletes born in Burkina Faso, Hugues Fabrice Zango ranks 1After him are Marthe Koala (1994), Irakli Chkheidze (1999), Faysal Sawadogo (1996), and Richard Campbell (null).