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 compelled to delay his outside season opener as a result of harm.
On Monday, his press spokesperson Espen Skoland advised Norwegian broadcaster NRK: “Jakob has suffered a slight harm to his Achilles. Work is now being performed to make it occur, however he isn’t taking any dangers.”
Ingebrigtsen had been slated to kick off his season on dwelling 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 shall be competing anytime quickly.
The harm is all too acquainted for the Norwegian distance star; he additionally missed the 2023-24 indoor season as a result of Achilles troubles.
“With what he has performed at Bislett lately, it’s in fact an enormous loss,” Steinar Hoen, Bislett Video games occasion director, advised NRK. Ingebrigtsen had been the presumed favorite within the 1,500m or the 5,000m–whichever distance he selected. Final 12 months, 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 look ahead to 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.
