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 as a consequence of harm.
On Monday, his press spokesperson Espen Skoland informed Norwegian broadcaster NRK: “Jakob has suffered a slight harm to his Achilles. Work is now being completed to make it occur, however he isn’t taking any dangers.”
Ingebrigtsen had been slated to kick off his season on residence 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 likely 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 consequence of Achilles troubles.
“With what he has completed at Bislett lately, it’s in fact a giant loss,” Steinar Hoen, Bislett Video games occasion director, informed 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 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 could be lower than two weeks later on the Ostrava Golden Spike within the Czech Republic on June 24.