34 Facts About Teddy Tamgho

Teddy Tamgho was born on 15 June 1989 and is a French triple jumper and long jumper.

Teddy Tamgho is the former triple jump world indoor record holder, achieved in winning the final and gold medal at the 2011 European Indoor Championships.

Teddy Tamgho was the triple jump overall winner of the 2010 IAAF Diamond League and the triple jump bronze medallist at the 2010 European Championships.

Teddy Tamgho missed the 2012 London Olympics because of an operation on his right ankle.

Teddy Tamgho began representing Dynamic Aulnay Club in triple jump competitions from the age of 13.

Teddy Tamgho stated that his run-up speed was his strong point and that his success was a result of working with his coach, Jean-Herve Stievenart, and training partners Karl Taillepierre and Benjamin Compaore.

Teddy Tamgho did not manage to achieve the requisite mark in time for the Olympic team selection and it was Colomba Fofana who took the only men's triple jump berth in the 2008 French Olympic team.

Teddy Tamgho was the only athlete to clear the 17m mark in that final, and he did it thrice.

Teddy Tamgho had been competing in recent weeks with an injury and he used the two weeks leading to the 2009 European Indoor Championships in Turin as recovery time.

Teddy Tamgho initially thought a lesser jump would have been enough to secure the title, but following the Cuban's jump he said "I had to react and give it all".

Teddy Tamgho said he thought his previous season had been flawed, but that he had now grown stronger and matured, following advice from fellow competitors Jadel Gregorio and Phillips Idowu to take part in competitions in a calmer manner.

Just three days before his 21st birthday, Teddy Tamgho had achieved the longest triple jump outdoors for over a decade.

Teddy Tamgho won the 2010 French National Outdoor Championships senior triple jump title for the second time, but had to contend with a right calf cramp en route to victory.

Teddy Tamgho was ruled out of the Paris Diamond League meeting due to injury.

Teddy Tamgho announced a change of coach at the end of the season, starting work with four-time long jump world champion Ivan Pedroso.

Teddy Tamgho was recognised as the 2010 European Athletics Rising Star of the Year for his breakthrough year.

Teddy Tamgho started 2011 in similarly strong form as he improved his world indoor record by a centimetre to win the French National Indoor Championships senior triple jump title for the third time with a jump of 17.91m.

The day before the triple jump final, Teddy Tamgho had narrowly failed to win the bronze medal in the long jump event of the 2011 European Indoor Championships.

On 30 June 2011, Teddy Tamgho achieved an outdoor jump of 17.91 m at the 2011 IAAF Diamond League Athletissima athletics meeting in Lausanne.

Teddy Tamgho was thus forced to pull out of the upcoming 2011 World Championships in Daegu and for the rest of the year he did not take part in any athletics event held after the 2011 European Under-23 Championships in Ostrava.

Teddy Tamgho underwent surgery on his fractured right ankle in the second half of 2011.

In December 2011, Teddy Tamgho was handed a 12-month ban from competition by his national athletics federation, half of which was suspended, for assaulting a female athlete following his altercation with her at the CREPS sports training camp in Saint-Raphael at the end of October 2011.

Teddy Tamgho thus missed the chance to defend his triple jump title at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in March but would be eligible to participle in the 2012 Olympics in London.

Teddy Tamgho was forced to pull out of the 2012 Olympics in London after undergoing a right ankle operation on 4 June 2012 to remove a bone growth that was the result of the right ankle fracture sustained in July 2011.

Teddy Tamgho returned to athletics competition in May 2013 after an absence of 22 months.

Teddy Tamgho had earlier skipped the entire indoor season of 2013 to concentrate on his preparations for the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.

Teddy Tamgho won the 2013 World Championships men's triple jump gold medal with a jump of 18.04 m in the final, which made him only the third man in history, after Jonathan Edwards and Kenny Harrison, to jump 18.00 m or more outdoors.

Teddy Tamgho was just two centimetres over the board on his second and third jumps, and six centimetres over the board on his fifth.

Teddy Tamgho became the first ever French male World Championships medallist in the triple jump and the first French World Championships gold medallist in any event since 2005.

On 13 December 2013 at a press conference in Paris, Teddy Tamgho announced that he would miss the entire 2014 athletics season in order to recover fully from his left tibia surgery.

In December 2013, Teddy Tamgho was chosen as the 2013 French male athlete of the year, according to an Internet poll taken from the athletics fraternity, in which more than 2500 votes were cast over two weeks.

On 21 June 2014, the IAAF announced that Teddy Tamgho would be suspended from athletics for a period of one year for failing to make himself available for anti-doping tests three times within an 18-month period.

Teddy Tamgho returned to competition with a jump of 16.78 m in a meeting held in a northern suburb of Paris after an absence of 18 months due to injury and the IAAF suspension.

On 15 May 2015, Teddy Tamgho ruptured his Achilles tendon during the Diamond League meeting in Doha, forcing him to miss the upcoming 2015 World Championships in Beijing.