Having embarked on a crazy Olympic gamble that brought him out of retirement, Teddy Tamgho, 2013 world triple jump champion, failed to qualify for the Paris Games on his last opportunity on Saturday June 29, at the French Championships in Angers.
Tamgho finished fifth in the competition with a best jump measured at 16.47 m (wind: +0.7 m/s), his best result of the year but far from the Olympic minimum set at 17.22 m. “Athletics is over. I’m moving on to something else, it’s over. I’m going to coach, that’s all. Now I’m going to McDonald’s”he said on the Angevin track.
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Already a coach, notably of Burkinabé Hugues Fabrice Zango, reigning world champion and Olympic bronze medalist in 2021, Tamgho announced at the beginning of 2022 his desire to come out of retirement with the dream of qualifying for the Paris Games.
World Champion in 2013
He returned to competition in February in Madrid, for the first time in nearly five years. Throughout his career, Tamgho has never participated in the Olympic Games. Injuries deprived him of the 2012 Olympic Games in London and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
He was crowned outdoor world champion in 2013 in Moscow, thanks to a jump of 18.04 m, a personal best and French record, and indoor world champion three years earlier in Doha.
