The Olympic 1,500m champion, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, won’t be on the 2024 World Indoor Championships in Glasgow this March. Ingebrigtsen has been sidelined with an Achilles harm that has saved him away from the game for the reason that finish of the 2023 Diamond League season in September.
In response to the Norweigan information website Dagsavisen, Ingebrigtsen has been coping with a nagging Achilles harm and won’t doubtless compete till the outside season. Ingebrigtsen stated in a press release that he’s making progress, however that he doesn’t need to take any dangers, with the busy season forward. “I do know my physique, and it generally occurs that it wants a bit of further time to heal earlier than I begin with exhausting hundreds,” wrote Ingebrigtsen. “I run my very own scheme and I do know that works. For me, it’s European Championships and Olympic medals that matter.”
The 23-year-old’s harm additionally pressured him to overlook the European Cross Nation Championships final month, which will even doubtless depart him out of the World Cross Nation Championships on the finish of March.
Ingebrigtsen has by no means gained a world indoor championship title. His solely indoor medal was a silver within the males’s 1,500m on the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. He was overwhelmed within the occasion by Ethiopia’s Samuel Tefera, and examined constructive for COVID-19 the next day.
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It’s a busy calendar yr for a lot of European athletes with World Indoors, World Cross, The Olympic Video games and European Championships all on the calendar between March and September.
It has been an eventful yr for Ingebrigtsen, who defended his world 5,000m title on the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, and completed runner-up to Nice Britain’s Josh Kerr within the males’s 1,500m. He additionally clocked two world data (within the two-mile and the two,000m), together with the second-fastest time in historical past over the mile on the Diamond League remaining in Eugene, Ore.
