After a scorching begin to his 2025 marketing campaign with double gold at March’s World Indoor Championships, Norway’s 5,000m Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen could also be pressured to delay his out of doors season opener because of harm.
On Monday, his press spokesperson Espen Skoland instructed Norwegian broadcaster NRK: “Jakob has suffered a slight harm to his Achilles. Work is now being carried out to make it occur, however he isn’t taking any dangers.”
Ingebrigtsen had been slated to kick off his season on house turf in Norway on the Oslo Bislett Video games on June 12. However now that Ingebrigtsen’s altitude coaching camp has already been postponed, there’s uncertainty whether or not he will probably be competing anytime quickly.
The harm is all too acquainted for the Norwegian distance star; he additionally missed the 2023-24 indoor season because of Achilles troubles.
“With what he has carried out at Bislett lately, it’s after all a giant loss,” Steinar Hoen, Bislett Video games occasion director, instructed NRK. Ingebrigtsen had been the presumed favorite within the 1,500m or the 5,000m–whichever distance he selected. Final yr, he delivered an exciting 1,500m victory in 3:29.74, edging Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot by three-hundredths of a second.
Followers can nonetheless sit up for appearances from different main stars, together with Karsten Warholm, Mondo Duplantis and Julien Alfred, who’re nonetheless set to compete on the Oslo Diamond League. Ingebrigtsen’s subsequent race can be lower than two weeks later on the Ostrava Golden Spike within the Czech Republic on June 24.
