Tokyo Olympics: History for Burkina Faso as Fabrice Zango Wins First-Ever Olympic Medal
Hugues Fabrice Zango admitted he had mixed feelings as he won Burkina Faso's first-ever Olympic medal as he claimed bronze in the men's triple jump.
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The 28-year-old's leap of 17.47 meters was 35cm short of his African outdoor record, which he set earlier this year, but was enough to claim third place just ahead of two-time Olympic silver medallist Will Claye of the USA.
"It is a pleasure for me to be the first medallist for my country in the Olympics. It is a good thing for us," Zango, the indoor world record holder, said after the final.
"I am a bit sad because I wasn't able to produce my best performance and this is what makes the medal not as good as I wanted.
"I think that this paves the way so in the next Olympics we will get more medals.
"I am doing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and I will finish next year. I didn't win the gold medal but I will try to push to continue training hard for the Paris Olympics to make history for my country."
Portugal's Cuban-born Pedro Pichardo won the gold medal with a new national record of 17.98m while China's Yaming Zhu took silver with a personal best of 17.57m.
Algeria's Mohamed Yasser Triki set a new national record of 17.43m for his 5th place in the final.
Egypt's Mostafa Amr Hassan was eighth and Nigeria's Chukwuebuka Enekwechi was unfortunately last in the final.
