On Friday, Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen was dominant within the first spherical of the boys’s 1,500m on the 2025 World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China. The 24-year-old distance-running star patiently sat in the back of the pack for the primary 5 laps earlier than surging to the entrance, leaving his rivals within the rearview.
After the race, Ingebrigtsen stopped within the blended zone and was requested by Let’s Run journalist Jonathan Gault if he was upset that every one three Olympic 1,500m medallists had skipped the championships. Smirking, Ingebrigtsen replied, “Aren’t all of us?”
The three Olympic medallists from Paris 2024—Cole Hocker, Josh Kerr and Yared Nuguse—selected to not journey to Nanjing, regardless of having qualifying occasions. A number of American athletes cited the difficult journey schedule for 3 days of competitors in China as a cause for his or her absence.
Ingebrigtsen shunned naming names, however stated he couldn’t flip down the chance to compete for extra world championship medals. “It’s price it [making the trip] when it’s a world championship,” he stated. “Although I imagine observe is an outside sport.”
Ingebrigtsen’s weekend objective is 2 gold medals, within the males’s 1,500m and three,000m occasions. The Norwegian has but to win a World Indoor gold medal; his sole medal got here in 2022, when he settled for silver behind Ethiopia’s Samuel Tefera within the 1,500m remaining.
Ingebrigtsen will take to the observe on Saturday morning within the males’s 3,000m remaining at 7:30 a.m. ET (19:30 native time) and once more on Sunday morning within the males’s 1,500m remaining at 8:15 a.m. ET (20:15 native time). All occasions will be streamed from Canada on CBC Sports activities at no cost.
