After 2023 full of achievements, Jakob Ingebrigtsen The year started with a low profile. The Norwegian has an Achilles tendon injury that has kept him on the slopes, but he already has clear goals for 2024. In an interview for NRK radio, the middle-distance runner revealed his plans for the coming month.
“Plan A is to start the season in Eugene, race at the Bislett Games and the European Championships in Rome. Then I will fully focus on the Olympics, so I will probably have a good season at the end of the summer,” he said Ingebrigtsen.
He was referring to Eugene Prefontaine Classic, a prestigious athletics meeting held annually at Hayward Field in Oregon and part of the Diamond League calendar (May 25). There he will compete in the mile trial, a distance where he has already achieved the second fastest time in history with 3:43.73.
The Bislett Games is an annual athletics meeting that takes place in Oslo on May 30 and is also part of the Diamond League. The 1500m and 5000m events are run there, the two distances the Norwegian is best at and for which he holds the national records with marks of 3:27.14 and 12:48.45, respectively.
He Rome European This will be the last litmus test for Ingebrigtsen before the Olympic Games in Pariswhere he will meet Josh Kerr again, the British middle distance runner who crashed the party at the last World Athletics Championships in Budapest by taking first place in the 1500m final.
“It’s very important to study what you’ve done, or what you’ve been through, to see that it’s not your fault,” said the Norwegian, who also said that before the World Cup he suffered. groin pain which prevented him from performing one hundred percent.
Physical problems will prevent Jakob Ingebrigtsen from attending the World Indoor Track and Cross Country Championships, which will be held in Glasgow and Belgrade next March. However, he revealed that he has been training on the treadmill and in the water to get in top shape for the summer season.
Source: La Verdad
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