Fabrice Zango leaps African triple jump record of 17.77m

World bronze medallist Hugues-Fabrice Zango produced the jump of his life at the Meeting de Paris on Sunday (2), sailing out to an outright African triple jump record of 17.77m.

Zango’s 17.77m moves him to equal fourth on the world indoor all-time list and is just 15 centimetres shy of the world indoor record set in 2011 by his coach, Teddy Tamgho.