The second evening session at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24 provided one of the great indoor athletics sessions, featuring home golds for Molly Caudery in the pole vault and Josh Kerr in the 3000m, a third women’s 400m world record from Femke Bol of the Netherlands and a historic women’s 60m victory for St Lucia’s Julien Alfred.
Add to that another peerless 60m hurdles victory for Grant Holloway in a championship record of 7.29, extending his unbeaten indoor run to 76 races back to 2014, a triple jump win from world champion Hugues Fabrice Zango and a last-gasp 400m defeat for Karsten Warholm at the hands of Belgium’s Alexander Doom.
In a night of firsts at the Glasgow Arena, World outdoor triple jump champion Hugues Fabrice Zango grabbed his first world indoor medal – a gold after leaping 17.53m to surpass a strong opening effort by Algeria’s Yasser Mohammed Triki.
The 30-year-old became Burkina Faso’s first ever Olympic medallist in Tokyo. His bronze in Doha in 2019 was the nation’s first World Athletics Championships medal and he upgraded it to silver in Oregon in 2022 and then gold in Budapest last August.
“It’s never easy to win a championship,” said Zango.
“When I came here, I thought I might be able to do something but my season wasn’t what I wanted. Tonight, I tried and tried and on my fifth jump it finally happened – doing 17.53m is really crazy.
“I’m really happy for Burkina Faso, for Africa, because in the final we have two Africans on the podium.”
TOP RESULTS – MEN’S TRIPLE JUMP
🥇Hugues Fabrice Zango, 🇧🇫 BUR, 17.53m
🥈Yasser Mohammed Triki, 🇩🇿 ALG, 17.35m
🥉Tiago Pereira, 🇵🇹 POR, 17.08m
