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href="https://www.olympics.com/en/sign-in?entry_point_type=instory_campaign&entry_point_tag=base&template=base&origin=https%3A%2F%2Folympics.com%2Fen%2Folympic-channel" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Olympic Membership - Free Live Stream Sports & Original Series - join now The 27-year-old becomes the first-ever African world record holder in a jumping event His leap added 15 centimetres to the previous record, set by his French coach Teddy Tamgho at the 2011 European Indoor Championships who was present for the jump and delighted for his mentee He tweeted after:“We already knew that the record had to fall Now we go back to work because we must not stop there.” READ: Hugues Fabrice Zango: "I am starting to become famous" Hugues Fabrice Zango started his season in superb style by smashing the world indoor triple jump record in France on Saturday (January 16) The 27-year-old world bronze medallist soared out to a mark of 18.07m at the Meeting d'Aubiere to become the first athlete to go further than 18 metres indoors which Zango achieved in the final round of the competition adds 15cm to the previous record which had been set by his coach Teddy Tamgho also in France at the European Indoor Championships in 2011 It sees Zango become the first African man to hold a world record in a jumps event while he is also the first from Burkina Faso to set a world record 🎥 : Sébastien Homo pic.twitter.com/KWwPEArZcB — Vincent Guyot (@Vinc_Guyot) January 16, 2021 also holds the African record outdoors with the 17.66m he recorded to claim bronze at the World Championships in Doha in 2019 (pictured below) He was featured as one of AW's 'five big breakthroughs' for the summer of 2020 in the October relaunch magazine where his continued progression with a series of 17-metre jumps was noted Zango is studying for a PhD in electrical engineering in Lille and has ambitions of becoming a professor to teach in Burkina Faso one day Zango's series on Saturday included jumps of 17.33m in the second round 17.61m in the fourth and 17.70m in the fifth before he made history with his final leap Finishing second in Aubiere was France's Melvin Raffin with 16.98m while his compatriot Jean-Marc Pontvianne was third with 16.49m France's former world pole vault record-holder Renaud Lavillenie cleared 5.92m to win at the StarPerche meeting matching his best ever indoor season's opener which he achieved in 2011 👊🏼 5m92 👊🏼StarPerche #foreverfaster @PUMA @PUMARunning 📸 @ThomasMaheux pic.twitter.com/Z6H91jYOlT — Renaud LAVILLENIE OLY (@airlavillenie) January 16, 2021 Tanni Grey-Thompson on mission to boost grassroots sport France (AP) — Hugues Fabrice Zango broke the world indoor triple jump record with an effort of 18.07 meters on his sixth and final attempt on Saturday He added 15 centimeters to the previous record set by Teddy Tamgho 10 years ago and became the first athlete from Burkina Faso to set a world record He did so at a jumps-only meeting in France which was seven centimeters short of his personal best Zango became the first to jump more than 18 meters indoors More AP tennis: https://apnews.com/apf-Tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports Stay secure and make sure you have the best reading experience possible by upgrading your browser France’s 2012 Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie produced his best vault for more than seven years by clearing 6.06m at the All Star Perche meeting in Aubiere – the final World Athletics Indoor Tour fixture of 2021 – on Saturday (27) The day had started over in New Zealand with Valerie Adams producing her best form for nearly five years and it ended in France with her fellow 2014 World Athlete of the Year Renaud Lavillenie also turning back the clock The last time Lavillenie vaulted higher was when he set the former world record of 6.16m in 2014 The 34-year-old made easy work of his first two vaults going over 5.70m and 5.86m on his first attempts Younger brother Valentin and 20-year-old Ethan Cormont USA’s Chris Nilsen got over 5.86m on his third attempt but bowed out with three misses at 5.96m was successful at that height on his third attempt adding 15 centimetres to his own Dutch indoor record and Vloon’s third attempt was particularly close but ultimately unsuccessful took a few moments to compose himself for his attempts at the next height he succeeded on his third try – and with a bit of room to spare – punching the air in celebration on his descent He ended his evening with three failed attempts at a would-be world record of 6.20m but he was more than happy with his day’s work Britain’s Holly Bradshaw used the competition as a shot of redemption having been forced to miss the final World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of the year in Madrid just a few days prior She had been in first place in the overall standings but Iryna Zhuk’s victory in the Spanish capital gave the Belarusian the overall series title Bradshaw continued her unbeaten streak and won with 4.78m She was playing catch-up during the earlier heights as a second-time clearance at 4.50m put her behind Canada’s Alysha Newman and Slovenia’s Tina Sutej Sutej and Switzerland’s Angelica Moser topped out at 4.60m while Bradshaw and Zhuk both went clear at 4.68m on their first attempts Bradshaw finally gained sole ownership of the lead with a first-time clearance at 4.73m – a height which Zhuk needed three attempts to get over while Bradshaw went on to succeed at 4.78m on her third try Bradshaw ended her series with three misses at a would-be PB height of 4.88m Adams rolls back the years with 19.65m shot p.. Add another national championship to the career achievements list for Garrett Scantling The Episcopal School of Jacksonville graduate captured a national championship Sunday in the men's heptathlon at the USA Track & Field Indoor Championships at The Podium in Spokane Scantling recorded a personal-best 6,382 points in the indoor heptathlon Two athletes affiliated with Jacksonville Athletic Club Back on track: After giving up on sports, Garrett Scantling stars again in decathlon 1 in the world at the indoor heptathlon for the 2021-22 year Scantling, 28, returned to athletics after stepping away from the sport, winning the decathlon at the U.S. Olympic Trials and placing fourth in the 10-event competition at the Tokyo Olympics last August Clayton Freeman covers high school sports and more for the Florida Times-Union Men’s world indoor triple jump record18.07m Hugues Fabrice Zango (BUR) Aubiere 16 January 2021 Men’s world indoor shot put record22.82m Ryan Crouser (USA) Fayetteville 24 January 2021 Men’s world U20 200m record19.84 Erriyon Knighton (USA) Eugene 27 June 2021 Men’s world U20 110m hurdles records12.93 Sasha Zhoya (FRA) Nairobi 20 August 202112.72 Sasha Zhoya (FRA) Nairobi 21 August 2021 Women’s world U20 4x100m record42.94 Jamaica (Serena Cole Men’s world U20 4x100m record38.51 South Africa (Mihali Xhotyeni Benjamin Richardson) Nairobi 22 August 2021 World indoor records from Hugues Fabrice Zango and Ryan Crouser plus a handful of world U20 records set by teenage talents Sasha Zhoya and Erriyon Knighton in 2021 are among the latest marks to have been ratified Zango produced one of the first stand-out performances of 2021 The triple jumper from Burkina Faso bounded out to a sensational 18.07m last-round leap in Aubiere on 16 January It was the first time the 18-metre barrier had been surpassed indoors and it broke the world indoor record of 17.92m that had been set by Zango’s coach at the European Indoor Championships in Paris on 6 March 2011 I feel immense pride and joy to have accomplished something unique,” said the world bronze medallist who went on to set an African outdoor record of 17.82m during the outdoor season before taking bronze at the Olympic Games in Tokyo US shot putter Crouser started the year as he meant to go on at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting in Fayetteville on 24 January the 28-year-old launched his shot out to 22.82m breaking the long-standing world indoor record of 22.66m that had been set by USA’s Randy Barnes in Los Angeles on 20 January 1989 Crouser backed up his winning throw with efforts of 22.70m also beyond the previous world indoor record “I felt really nervous on the first throw “I feel like there's more there.” His instinct turned out to be right; later in the year Crouser went on to break the world record with 23.37m then retained his Olympic title with an Olympic record of 23.30m before going on to set a Wanda Diamond League record of 23.15m in Eugene Knighton was one of the revelations of the US Olympic Trials in Eugene The 17-year-old breezed through his 200m heat in a world U18 best of 20.04 then won his semifinal in a world U20 record of 19.88 – which was ratified earlier in the year – and eventually placed third in the final on 27 June improving his own world U20 record to 19.84 and booking his place on USA’s Olympic team Knighton went on to place fourth in the Olympic final in 19.93 He will be an U20 athlete throughout all of 2022 and 2023 Zhoya has been similarly prolific in his record-breaking this year The French sprint hurdler dipped under 13 seconds for the 110m hurdles (99cm height) on his way to winning the European U20 title in July marking him as the favourite for the world U20 title in Nairobi in August He sped to a world U20 record of 12.93 (-0.4m/s) in the semifinals on 20 August and then went significantly faster in the final on 21 August “It’s the quickest time on any hurdle height and that makes me really happy,” said Zhoya “Now all I need to do is to replicate my junior performance to the senior category as I now focus into transiting into the seniors.” on the final day of the World Athletics U20 Championships Nairobi 21 there were two world U20 records within the space of 15 minutes Kerrica Hill and Tia Clayton sped to victory in the women’s 4x100m in 42.94 smashing the previous world U20 record of 43.27 that had been set by Germany at the European U20 Championships in Grosseto on 23 July 2017 “It’s great that Tia was able to win a medal because she didn’t have a chance to win a medal in the 100m,” Tina Clayton said of her twin sister “She came out here and executed well.” South Africa’s quartet of Mihali Xhotyeni Letlhogonolo Moleyane and Benjamin Richardson were similarly well drilled en route to their 38.51 triumph in the men’s race 15 minutes later Their time broke the world U20 record of 38.62 that had been set by the USA in San Jose on 20 July 2019 and it feels like a very great achievement,” said anchor leg runner Richardson “I’m happy for me and my team doing it together; we’re all fast and together we got to a world record.” Crouser breaks world indoor shot put record w.. Zango smashes world indoor triple jump record.. Zhoya smashes world U20 record again as Mboma.. South Africa and Jamaica shatter world U20 4x.. World bronze medallist Hugues Fabrice Zango produced the first standout athletics moment of 2021 by sailing to a world indoor triple jump record of 18.07m* in Aubiere on Saturday (16) The 27-year-old from Burkina Faso added 15 centimetres to the previous record set by his coach Teddy Tamgho back in 2011 and becomes the first man to leap beyond 18 metres indoors He opened his series with a foul but then landed a valid 17.33m effort in round two he improved to 17.61m and then 17.70m – just seven centimetres shy of his lifetime best Nouveau Record du Monde ! Hugues Fabrice Zango - 18m07 ! Aubière - 16/01/2021🎥 : Sébastien Homo pic.twitter.com/KWwPEArZcB and bounded out to 18.07m with his sixth and final effort Melvin Raffin of France was second with 16.98m while Jean-Marc Pontvianne was third with 16.49m Zango becomes the first athlete from Burkina Faso to set a world record and the first African athlete to set a world record in a men's jumping event Hugues' previous outright best of 17.77m was also set indoors and it came in his first competition of 2020 His outdoor PB of 17.66m was set at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 *Subject to the usual ratification procedure In just his second competition of the year world athlete of the year Renaud Lavillenie scaled a world-leading height of 5.92m to break the meeting record at the Pole Vault Summit in Reno on Friday night (16) who had opened his season last week in Aubiere with 5.80m began his series in Reno with first-time clearances at 5.65m and 5.80m He surprisingly lost his lead at the next height as USA’s World University Games champion Sam Kendricks went over 5.86m at the first time of asking adding five centimetres to his outright PB He skipped right to the next height of 5.92m and needed just one attempt to clear it breaking Jeff Hartwig’s meeting record of 5.91m set 16 years ago Lavillenie then had the bar raised to 6.00m Britain’s Steve Lewis was third with 5.65m tonight was a really good competition,” Lavillenie said on his Instagram account “Sounds good for the winter season.” Lavillenie opened his record-breaking 2014 campaign with the same two competitions clearing 5.84m in Aubiere and 5.75m in Reno European silver medallist Ekaterini Stefanidi made it two wins out of two competitions so far in 2015 winning the women’s event with a season’s best of 4.60m USA’s Becky Holliday led after clearing all heights up to and including 4.50m on her first attempt Stefanidi and USA’s Mary Saxer needed two attempts to negotiate that height and Melissa Gergel then joined them by clearing that height on her third try got over 4.60m on her final try before rounding out her series with unsuccessful attempts at 4.66m and a would-be outright Greek record of 4.73m Lavillenie clears world-leading 5.86m at Reno Hans-Christian Hausenberg led an Estonian heptathlon top three on home soil while Poland’s Adrianna Sulek improved her pentathlon world lead at the Indoor Combined Events meeting – a World Athletics Combined Events Tour Silver event – in Tallinn this weekend (5-6) Continuing Estonia’s strength in the combined events Hausenberg – the 2015 world U18 decathlon bronze medallist – had the heptathlon competition of his life to score 6143 points breaking the 6000-point barrier for the first time while Taavi Tsernjavski was third with 5840 points the 2019 world decathlon silver and 2018 world indoor heptathlon bronze medallist was also among those in action – his results including a 2.19m high jump clearance – but his competition came to an end when he was unable to record a mark in the pole vault Just a single point separated the top two in the pentathlon with Sulek improving her world-leading score with a PB of 4598 points for a narrow win ahead of Britain’s Holly Mills who also achieved a personal best with her 4597 tally That score adds 29 points to the previous world lead Sulek had set at the X-Athletics meeting in Aubiere the weekend before Ukaraine’s Yuliya Loban was third in Tallinn with 4482 points Hausenberg opened his campaign with a 60m win in 6.85 and maintained his lead with an outright long jump personal best of 7.92m After 14.04m in the shot put – an event in which Vitaliy Zhuk of Belarus threw 16.46m – Hausenberg cleared 1.98m in a high jump topped by Uibos’s 2.19m Hausenberg led with 3492 points ahead of Uibo’s 3409 Hausenberg started day two with a 60m hurdles PB of 7.96 and then cleared 5.22m in the pole vault before clocking 2:58.45 in the 1000m for his 6143-point PB score which places him fourth on this season’s top list Portugal's Abdel Kader Larrinaga was fourth with 5810 points and Poland's Rafal Horbowicz fifth with 5556 it was Mills who got off to the strongest start as she clocked an 8.17 PB Sulek was ahead after the high jump thanks to her PB 1.87m clearance while Mills managed 1.72m after feeling some discomfort in her knee Loban led the shot put with a 14.75m throw with Mills managing 13.10m and Sulek 12.53m Mills then leapt 6.37m in the long jump and Finland's Maria Huntington led after four events following her leap of 6.26m with Sulek – who recorded 6.15m – sitting third behind Loban and Mills in fourth Mills then went quickest in the 800m with 2:12.54 while Sulek clocked 2:14.32 to win the competition by one point Huntington was fourth with 4476 points and Poland's Paulina Ligarska fifth with 4301 Indoor Combined Events Tallinn results Ehammer leaps 8.26m en route to heptathlon wi.. Duplantis clears 6.03m and Jacobs returns wit.. France - London 2012 Olympic Games and 2012 European Athletics Championships winner Renaud Lavillenie set a 2013 world-leading mark of 5.93m when winning his fourth consecutive French indoor title in Aubiere on Sunday (17) The National indoor championships were being held at his own training venue and Lavillenie didn’t disappoint his home crowd which was to win and jump over 5.80,” said Lavillenie the best height of the silver medallist Stanley Joseph and bronze medallist Romain Mesnil Lavillenie then needed three attempts to clear 5.77m although it was one I’ve once used to clear six metres; that means that I’m in shape but I needed some adjustments.” Now perfectly set Lavillenie jumped 5.87m with his first try he experienced some initial difficulties but cleared it with his last attempt He then asked for the symbolic 6.00m height the hardest pole he ever took in his lifetime,” explained his coach “That means he’s in shape but he was a little bit tired.” Unbeaten this season in seven competitions Lavillenie is now eyeing a third consecutive European indoor title in Gothenburg next month the 2007 and 2009 IAAF World Championships silver medallist announced that he had taken part to his last national indoor championships and that he will not be going to Gothenburg impressed in winning the 1500m with 3:38.42 on Sunday his best time ever either indoors or outdoors getting a rid of his opponents with two laps to go Marie Gayot looked good when winning the 400m by a huge margin taking a risk with a fast first lap in 24.22 but then maintaining her lead to cross the line in a personal best of 51.98 Antonin Boyez won the 5000m Race Walk with a quick 19:06.06 while 2012 European Athletics Championships bronze medallist Mickael Hanany took the High Jump with 2.27m Many of the other top performances in Aubiere came on Saturday Jimmy Vicaut won his first national title and ran 60m in 6.53 for the no less than the third time this winter “I’m looking to stay healthy until the European indoors and run faster there but I have to make it clear that I’m a 100m specialist so my focus in geared towards outdoors and Moscow World Championships.” This was also what Christophe Lemaitre uttered Having experienced a slight ankle fracture in December and then flu’ in January his preparations had not been ideal so far “These problems have been out of my control but I hope to train better and harder in spring” said continental champion outdoors in 2010 and 2012 “I see everybody is his shape but they will have to confirm it this summer; however our 4x100m relay can do great things.” Johanna Danois created a major surprise in Saturday in lowering her 200m personal best from 23.75 to 22.81 “Coming from Guadeloupe where it was 32C degrees and landing on Paris on Monday into 1C degree it was hard for me to adapt to be read today But I have a strong mentality and I could cope with it I felt very light and full of energy during the race.” The two 60m Hurdle races offered close finishes Pascal Martinot-Lagarde won the men’s event in 7.53 from Dimitry Bascou ”I matched the time I did to take the World indoor bronze medal last year I managed to be in the fight as soon as the first hurdle and that’s what a great point,” said Martinot-Lagarde His training partner Reina-Flor Okori also got a good start in the women’s race and won in 8.01 “I have two more weeks to improve it as the time is not yet what it should be.” Harold Correa was the suprising winner in the Triple Jump with 16.94m Mélanie Melfort went over 1.93m to win the women’s High Jump before having three failures at a national record height of 1.97m while 2012 European champion Eloyse Lesueur had no serious opposition in the Long Jump and won with 6.63m Mariano Garcia forms part of the Spanish team for the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24 and will defend his 800m title at the event that takes place from 1-3 March The 26-year-old claimed his first global title in Belgrade two years ago and went on to win European 800m gold that year in Munich Garcia will be joined in the men’s 800m by teammate Mohamed Attaoui Maria Vicente heads to Glasgow in the form of her life having scored a world-leading national record of 4728 points in the pentathlon in Aubiere in January National mile record-holder Marta Perez and national champion Esther Guerrero are both entered for the women’s 1500m After winning three medals at the European Indoor Championships between 2017 and 2023 and finishing fifth at the 2018 World Indoor Championships in the 3000m Adel Mechaal will contest the 1500m in Glasgow He will be joined in that event by two-time world finalist Mario Garcia Asier Martinez will look to build on his fourth-place finish in Belgrade in the 60m hurdles The full team will be confirmed once world rankings places have been finalised Women60m: Jael Bestue1500m: Esther Guerrero Marta Perez60m hurdles: Xenia BenachPentathlon: Maria Vicente Written by: who also won bronze at the 2019 World Championships in Doha jumped 17.47 metres to claim third spot on the podium THE AFRICAN nation of Burkina Faso is celebrating after Hugues Fabrice Zango made history when he claimed his country’s first ever Olympic medal in the men’s triple jump in Tokyo by winning bronze.  jumped 17.47 metres to claim third spot on the podium.  Earlier this year Zango became the first athlete to triple jump over 18 metres indoors with a 18.07m effort in Aubiere His leap beat the 17.92m indoor world record set by his French coach Teddy Tamgho in 2011 “Bravo champion,” said Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Kabore “(Zango) holds the Burkinabe flag high filling us with pride,” Kabore said in a Facebook post “I ask him to keep going in preparation for a brilliant performance at the next Olympic Games.” Zango’s World Championship bronze saw him on the podium with the USA’s Christian Taylor and Will Claye The athlete combines his sport with studying electrical engineering at university The African nation become the 100th country to win a medal in athletics at the Olympic Games after Zango’s medal in Tokyo.   Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" The Voice Newspaper is committed to celebrating black excellence campaigning for positive change and informing the black community on important issues Your financial contributions are essential to protect the future of the publication as we strive to help raise the profile of the black communities across the UK Any size donation is welcome and we thank you for your continued support ENTWURF: Design & Build 2024 (FBC) – Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay as well as Femke Bol and Hugues Fabrice Zango are the latest stars announced for the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais – this season’s fifth World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting – in Lievin on 10 February Gudaf Tsegay returns to the scene of her world 1500m short track record from 2021 who won the world 10,000m title in Budapest last year Bol ran a 400m meeting record of 50.20 in Lievin last year and went on to set a world short track record of 49.26 at the Dutch Championships four days later Now she returns to the Arena Stade Couvert as the world 400m hurdles champion Joining Gudaf and Bol in Lievin will be USA’s Holloway the three-time world 110m hurdles champion who holds the world 60m hurdles record of 7.29 and the world indoor title in that event He is back for his fourth consecutive Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais on the hunt for a fourth consecutive victory Zango will also be looking to make a statement in Lievin Burkina Faso’s world triple jump champion achieved the farthest ever indoor leap with his 18.07m performance in Aubiere in 2021 and went on to claim world silver in 2022 and then world gold in 2023 This quartet joins the recently announced Lamecha Girma who heads back to the track on which he set his world 3000m short track record last year Eyes will also be on the women’s mile at the Czech Indoor Gala – this season’s second World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting – in Ostrava on 30 January Hosting a women’s mile race for the first time the meeting welcomes Ethiopia’s world indoor 800m silver medallist Freweyni Hailu and her compatriot Hirut Meshesha Hailu also claimed silver at the World Athletics Road Running Championships Riga 23 in October and both athletes have experience of racing in Ostrava having previously competed at the outdoor Golden Spike meeting Leave A Reply and website in this browser for the next time I comment commenced service in 1994 with outdated equipment and limited manpower but with the first of its kind and new style in the country’s broadcast media industry.