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 damage that has saved him away from the game for the reason that finish of the 2023 Diamond League season in September.
In keeping with the Norweigan information web site Dagsavisen, Ingebrigtsen has been coping with a nagging Achilles damage and won’t probably compete till the out of doors season. Ingebrigtsen stated in an announcement 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 typically occurs that it wants a bit of further time to heal earlier than I begin with arduous masses,” 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 damage additionally compelled him to overlook the European Cross Nation Championships final month, which may even probably go away him out of the World Cross Nation Championships on the finish of March.
Ingebrigtsen has by no means received 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 optimistic for COVID-19 the next day.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen runs five-minute beer mile at bachelor get together
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 information (within the two-mile and the two,000m), together with the second-fastest time in historical past over the mile on the Diamond League last in Eugene, Ore.
