Tamgho, 33, has been retired for four years and currently coaches the Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist, France-based Burkino Faso jumper Hugues Fabrice Zango - who will also be targeting Paris 2024.

"I think it's time, high time to put the spikes back on," France's Tamgho wrote on Instagram on March 31.

"High time to prepare for Paris 2024.

"I've trained... and by testing myself for some time, I realised that the legs were still ready, ready to jump far, ready to win THE medal (the only one I'm looking for)."

He added that that there would be a "simple protocol" and that it would take him six months, until October, to regain the required physical and mental level.

Tamgho became only the third man to break the 18 metres mark when he leapt 18.04m to win the world title in Moscow.

He set a world indoor record of 17.92m while competing in Paris in 2011.

Only one man has bettered that indoor mark since - Zango, who jumped 18.07m in January 2021.

Tamgho, who also won the world indoor title in 2010, has never competed at the Olympics, having missed London 2012 due to a right ankle operation.

He also served a ban imposed by the French Athletics Federation for assaulting a female amateur athlete in 2011.

Tamgho was suspended from March 18 2014 to March 17 2015 for anti-doping whereabouts failures between December 2012 and March 2014.

Last November he received a further one-year retroactive ban for competing during his year’s ban.

Following the retroactive ban Tamgho's results from March 18 2015 to March 17 2016 were annulled.

Tamgho also won European Indoor Championship gold at Paris in 2011 and outdoor silver at the European Championships in Barcelona 2010.