Jakob Ingebrigtsen injured and will miss Oslo diamond league (June 12) and possibly Ostrava

Hocker, Kerr, Nuguse, Kessler: 4 of the top 5 in the men’s 1500m final at the Paris 2024 Olympics participated and medaled at the "pointless" indoor World Championships in Glasgow. The only absent at last year’s indoor WC was actually Ingebrigtsen as he was still recovering from injury.

And Hocker was by far the athlete who had the highest number of races in 2024 before the Olympics.

There’s a strange notion that blames injuries that seemingly occur out of competition periods on races weeks or months earlier.

Jakobs injury last year was in winter training correct? This one is after he stopped racing indoors. Kerr injured himself in the winter this year (the hip). Perhaps these guys just don’t back off like they do when they have races/travel.

This guy isnt worth one hair on el guerrouj's balls.

Why is that?

I don’t want to diminish what Jakob has achieved under his father’s coaching, but this is a very lame comment. Here’s a count of Jakob global championships medals:

With his father coaching him: 1

• Gold OG 2021 1500m

Without his father coaching him: 8

• Gold WC 5000m 2022
• Gold WC 5000m 2023
• Gold OG 5000m 2024
• Gold indoor WC 1500m 2025
• Gold indoor WC 3000m 2025
• Silver indoor WC 1500m 2022
• Silver WC 1500m 2022
• Silver WC 1500m 2023
• He also won 4 DL finals, all of them without his father’s coaching

You are also missing:

• Gold European Championships 1500m/5000m 2022
• Gold European Championships 1500m/5000m 2024
• Gold European Indoor Championships 1500m/3000m 2023
• Gold European Indoor Championships 1500m/3000m 2025
• Gold European XC Champs 2022
• Gold European XC Champs 2024
• 1500m World Indoor Record 3:30.60 2022
• Mile National Record 3:46.46 2022 6th AT
• 1500m European Record 3:27.95 2023 5th AT
• 1500m European Record 3:27.14 2023 3rd AT
  
• Mile European Record 3:43.73 2023 3rd AT next day 3000m European Record 7:23.63 2023 3rd AT
• 2000m World Record 4:43.13 2023
• 2 Mile World Best 7:54.10 2023 (3000m European Record 7:24.00 3rd AT en route).
• 1500m European Record 3:26.73 2024 3rd AT
• 3000m World Record 7:17.55 2024
• Mile World Indoor Record 3:45.14 2025 (1500m World Indoor Record 3:29.63 en route)
• 16 Diamond League wins against consistently stacked fields with the worlds best runners in top 10-20 times.

Gjert had NOTHING to do with any of this.

After all the drugs it can’t be sure that El G has any fuzz left.

Gjert had EVERYTHING to do with this. He created Jakob and built his base and competitiveness.

When I heard his brother saying " He is doing so good in training, this summer is going to be ridiculous " I knew something had to happen.

Probably not as bad as last year but the timing isnt good its almost June :/

Thank you.

If I may, how are you "Official JI"? Jakob gave you permission to post on his behalf?

(Sorry if this is common LR knowledge.)

Gjert had NOTHING to do with the progression shown here. If anything, Jakob may have quit running by 2022 based on how Gjert has treated him.

I mean.... he ran 7:17 the same year he was injured. He just peaked way later and broke the WR on August 25th. That was a few weeks after Paris Olympics...when most people were past their peak.

My guess is Brussels and Zurich are prime chances for the 5K WR. Or If there's a really late season meet like Rieti. He can get pacemakers that didn't make their world champs team...esp later in the season.

Anything can happen to anyone at any time. Training and competing at the highest level must be a really hard balance.

Sure hope Jacobs situation isn’t too bad.

You sound rather smug about Grant Fisher. For track racing fans let’s hope he and the many great athletes trying to do their best and entertain track fans can be injury free fully knowing stuff happens and they are doing their best to minimize that risk. GST is new and does require multiple races. That is why Grant Fisher didn’t push it in the first slam and did the least he had to do to win. Many on LetsRun chastised him for that and want to see super fast races all of the time which is a selfish view. He stated that he took some downtime after his indoor season and surely wasn’t anywhere near top form for the first and second Slams. Grant ran 400m to win the 3,000m and 200m to come away with enough points in the 5,000m to win the first Slam. The second Slam he ran 120m fast in the 3,000m and pushed a hard mile to win the 5,000m for his second Slam victory. Very smart running, limiting his chances of injury. Who knows how the next two Slam will materialize. I wish him well.

As for Kerr, he was coming off of injury that happened during indoor season. It showed in his first Slam that he wasn’t in form. His second Slam it showed he had a good training block.

These guys are smart runners. They and their coaches understand the challenges of a long season far better than any of us writing on LetsRun. Let’s not hope for or predict negative outcomes.

And speaking of the 5000m - this is a cool way of showing the alltime number of sub 13 min races

No. Do whatever he can to get through this season and then he needs to have surgery immediately after the season is over. Once my achilles started hurting, it kept hurting until I had it operated on.

But the guy who did my Achilles has helped Jakob with his. And he doesn't do surgery lightly. He wouldn't operate on mine unless I'd take 3 months totally off to try to heal it first.

So he'll get good advice. But if there is a chance this comes back, I'd just operate. Next year is the year you want to miss. He doesn't want this being an issue for years like it was with Chris Derrick.

There go his chances of ever getting the mile or 1500 WR, not that they were high to begin with.

Once these things flare up they never seem to go away.

looks like all the predictions came true. Achhilles = done

Who cares. No mercy for Dopers who hide in injuries....