Going into the 2008 outdoor season, Tamgho achieved the Olympic qualifying mark (17.10 m) but the &lt;a href="wind%20assistance"&gt;tailwind of 2.1 m/s&lt;/a&gt; was slightly too strong to make his jump valid. He 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. Tamgho won the 2008 World Junior Championships gold medal with a jump of 17.33 m in the final, but the mark was wind-aided (2.1 &lt;a href="Metre%20per%20second"&gt;m/s&lt;/a&gt;), just outside the legal limit of 2.0 m/s. Tamgho was the only athlete to clear the 17m mark in that final, and he did it thrice. He failed to repeat his form at the French national outdoor championships, and was fourth in 16.79 m—far behind the event winner Jules Lechanga.