If athlete Jakob Ingebrigtsen stays healthy and avoids injuries while traveling to Paris, he thinks that defending his 1500-meter Olympic championship will be easy. Due to his current standings, the athlete confidently declared: “If I don’t get injured and I don’t get sick, I think it’s going to be a walk in the park (in Paris).”
Jacob is known for being a talented and determined runner. After winning the 5,000 meters at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, he’s now focusing on the Paris Olympics. He’s smart in his races, preferring to win convincingly rather than with last-minute sprints. Even though some criticize him for struggling without pacemakers, his brother Henrik believes in Jacob’s ability to do well, even on tough days.
Jacob proved this by successfully won gold at the COVID-delayed Tokyo Games, setting an Olympic record with a time of 3 minutes and 28.32 seconds, after overtaking Kenyan runner Timothy Cheruiyot in an exciting finish.
Ingebrigtsen: Previous performances
At the Tokyo Olympics, Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway won the gold medal in the men’s 1500-meter race in a fast time, setting an Olympic record. Great Britain and Kenyan athletes also achieved podium finishes.
Before his victory at the Tokyo Olympics, Ingebrigtsen won gold in the 5000 meters at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, California, and again in Budapest, Hungary, one year later. However he was unsuccessful in the 1500 meters.
In two incredible upsets in 2023 and 2022, Brits Josh Kerr and Jake Wightman moved Ingebrigtsen up to second place on the podium in the metric mile. With this, he admitted: “At the end of the day, it’s a competition where everybody tries their best to win but sometimes everything doesn’t go as planned for everyone.”
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Source: CNA