Fabrice Zango continued to rewrite athletics history for Burkina Faso after claiming the triple jump title at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, UK. Zango was in second place in the final before his penultimate attempt, in which he achieved a season's best of 17.53, with which he denied the competition.
Thus, the 30-year-old vaulter already has an Olympic gold medal, an outdoor world championship and an indoor world championship, with all three titles currently in his possession. "It's never easy to win a title, I was hoping for a good result but my season hasn't been what I expected up to this point. Today I tried and tried and it finally worked on the fifth jump. 17.53 meters is crazy." Zango shared after the race.
The Algerian Yasser Tricky finished in second place with 17.35, and the Portuguese Thiago Pereira won the bronze medal with 17.08.
In the women's 60m sprint, Poland's Eva Svoboda won her first world championship medal after finishing second in 7.00 seconds. Unfortunately for her, she was unable to repeat her performance from the semi-finals when she recorded a world leading time of 6.98. It was with such a result that Julien Alfred from Saint Lucia became the winner in the final. The top 3 was completed by the Italian Zainab Dosso (7.05).
Gold medals were also won on Saturday by Britain's Molly Codery (pole vault), Bahamian Ken Mullings (high jump), American Grant Holloway (60 metres hurdles) and Dutch Femke Boll (400 metres). /BGNES
