Burkinabè Hugues-Fabrice Zango won his first world title in the triple jump with a mark of 17.64m during the World Athletics Championships on Monday in Budapest.
Zango, Olympic bronze medalist in Tokyo, delivered a high level competition with four jumps over 17.20m. He took the gold medal ahead of two Cubans, Lazaro Martinez, silver medalist with a triple jump measured at 17.41m and Cristian Napoles, who achieved a centimeter less (17.40m), his record.
Zango took first place in the absence of the star of the discipline, the Portuguese Cristian Pichardo, and after the injury of the young Jamaican prodigy, Jaydon Hibbert, victim of a muscular problem during the competition.
