the norwegian Jakob IngebrigtsenOlympic champion in the 1,500 and world champion in the 5,000, is a double at the Istanbul Indoor Europeans (Turkey) in March and will run the 1,500 and the 3,000 metersas reported on Wednesday by the Norwegian Athletics Federation.
Ingebrigtsen, 22, will again run two events at an indoor continental championship, as she did at Glasgow 2019 (gold in the 3,000 and silver in the 1,500) and Torun 2021 (gold in the 1,500 and 3,000).
The Norwegian athlete will come to these Europeans after an irregular indoor track season, as since his win on December 11 at the European cross-country championship in Turin, he has been unable to continue training due to various problems to health.
At the end of 2022, he missed the Cursa dels Nassos in Barcelona due to a throat infection and later, in January, after a few days in the Sierra Nevada, he returned to his country due to some colds.
His debut this season was on February 15, at the rally of Lievin (France), in a 1,500-meter race where he showed his superiority by imposing himself with authority with a time of 3:32.38, two seconds from breaking his record. in the world, and crossed the finish line first, leading Frenchman Azzedine Habz by almost three seconds, stopping the clock in 3:35.27.
The Norwegian expedition to Istanbul also includes Karsten Warholm, world record holder and Olympic champion in the 400 hurdles, who will run in the 400 meters, a distance in which he already won gold in Glasgow four years ago.
Source: La Verdad
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