Athletics

Hugues Fabrice Zango has world record plans for 2020

Name: Hugues Fabrice Zango talks world record and Tokyo 2020
Uploaded: 2020-02-21T00:00:00.000Z
Description: The 26-year-old dreams of winning his country's first Olympic medal and becoming one of the first Burkinabe engineering professors.

The 2019 World triple jump bronze medallist is looking to improve his African indoor record of 17.77m at the Meeting Villa de Madrid. "I'm starting to become famous," he told us.

The Burkinabe is just 15 centimetres shy of the world indoor record set in 2011 by his French coachTeddy Tamgho.

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