Essentially the most well-known household in distance working, the Ingebrigtsens, will quickly be rising in measurement. On Saturday, on social media, the reigning Olympic 1,500m champion, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and his spouse, Elisabeth, introduced they’re anticipating their first baby.
“New staff member coming in June,” wrote Ingebrigtsen, holding up a petite racing pace swimsuit.
It has been an eventful final 12 months for the couple, as they purchased a brand new home in Sandes, Norway, and obtained married in September 2023.
Ingebrigtsen has been unable to compete for the reason that 2023 Diamond League Remaining in Eugene, Ore., in mid-September, as a consequence of a nagging Achilles damage. In accordance with Norway’s NRK, the damage began when he took a while off from working for his wedding ceremony and honeymoon within the Maldives. When he tried to begin coaching once more, the challenges started. The damage has saved him sidelined for the reason that fall, and can maintain him out of each the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow and the World XC in Belgrade in March.
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The 23-year-old is coming off one of the crucial profitable seasons of his profession, successful two gold medals on the 2023 European Indoor Championships, setting world bests within the two-mile and a couple of,000m, and successful two Diamond League titles (one mile and three,000m). Ingebrigten’s solely setback of the season got here on the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, the place he misplaced to Nice Britain’s Josh Kerr within the males’s 1,500m, incomes his second consecutive silver medal.
The newborn’s gender has not been revealed, however based on the publish, is because of arrive in June. Ingebrigtsen intends to return to the observe for the 2024 Diamond League Pre-Basic in Eugene in late Might, then plans on competing on the Oslo Bislett Video games in June.
