Jakob Ingebrigtsen just got engaged

Bob R. K. Wrote:

"ou know, I am curious based on how his brothers' careers have progressed once they got married, and then began having children, where this will go with his career. It is unlikely Henrik will be top 5 in an Olympic or world championship final 1500 again, and unlikely Filipe will be medaling again at global championships. Filipe has looked off his game for a little while. He seems to have resigned himself to sacrificial lamb duties for Jakob in championship races."

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If you have followed the Team Ingebrigtsen documentary you would know that Jakob and his girlfriend have lived together under the same roof since they were 15-16.

I think Jakob been doing OK in the same period!?

I do agree that Filip doesn´t look good. If you have followed Team Ingebrigtsen you would also know that Filip moved from the West Coast of Norway to Oslo some years ago. Filip is therefore selftraining a great part of the year and that might be the reason for his dissappointing performances lately.

Henrik is possibly in the end of his career. He is doing OK when he is free of injuries but seems to have too many weaknesses from many years of hard training.

It has to be said that Henrik ran what was then a Norwegian record of 7:37 just in 2019, I think, as well as a fine 4:55 2000m in 2020. His struggles with injuries have made the high points rarer but they're still there outside the 1500m. He also had a big pr in the 5000m in 2019. Filip ran a Norwegian 1k record of 2:16 or 2:17 low the same day as the Kenya-Norway 2k race. He also ran 3:30-31 a couple times in 2019. The Oslo training has not hurt his overall level but maybe it prevented him from making the breakthrough to 3:28-29/7:27 that Jakob made, and which might have been there for Filip as well with that kind of a training partner.

the end of trackstaa wrote:

The trackstaa dude on Instagram gonna melt down over this. Basically an extreme fanboy.

You nailed it.

@trackstaa: "They’re engaged!! Sorry to break the bad news. I personally am sad, that I’m not wearing the ring

Congratulations @jakobing & @elisabethassers - maybe it has to be a double guest podcast now"

WTF

He’s been living with his girlfriend since 15? Can you explain? That doesn’t go down in the US.

Like they’re dating and parents are like ‘hey why don’t you just move in together?’

Only religious weirdos get married this early where I'm from.

So basically Elisabeth would come a lot to Jakob's house (like everyday) and sleep with him a lot since they were 16 (you can see videos of jakob and Elisabeth preparing his bag the morning before he goes to London for the 2017 WC). Then they lived in the basement of Gjert's house (I think they even took Filip's old appartement when he decided to move to Oslo) before buying their own appartement when jakob was 18. And yeah money and success that early is a big part of that, because jakob at 18 basically had the life of a 28yo world class runner.

let me correct you wrote:

the end of trackstaa wrote:

The trackstaa dude on Instagram gonna melt down over this. Basically an extreme fanboy.

You nailed it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNfuUCpHfHJ/

@trackstaa: "They’re engaged!! Sorry to break the bad news. I personally am sad, that I’m not wearing the ring

Congratulations @jakobing & @elisabethassers - maybe it has to be a double guest podcast now"

WTF

Wow...I guess another reason for trackstaa to increase his use of mascara! Just joking, if it's his style it's his style...but he is weirdly obsessed over a small group of world class runners.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Don't Generalize wrote:

They don't.

If they do, it's because they're prosperous enough that early in life, like the boomers were in the US.

Being prosperous makes you get married and have kids earlier? I'm pretty sure Mexico has typical marriage and baby-making ages way younger than the U.S., I wouldn't say Mexico is more prosperous. Seems it's more of a cultural thing

:'(

His grandfather had 3 kids by the time he was 23, got cancer, died at 25. Jakob's mother got pregnant at 16! 7 kids, 25 years apart. I believe his 2 runner brothers got their gfs pregnant before marriage. Jakob has been with Elisabeth since age 15! Jakob and some of his siblings have/had very severe acne! Looked at Jakob's face at 15/16 - yikes! Henrik and Filip very severe acne and now scars all over..Accutane doesn't exist in Norway? Looks like Jakob building a house on Insta as of 2023. Probably getting married after 2024 Olympics.

So you bumped a 2 year old thread to complain about their acne. Yikes.

W... T... F...

She needs to tie the knot around him since she has nothing to fall back on. Get half at the divorce seems like a good backup.

She is a pretty face and that's about it, probably make some influencer money from the following she gained off him. That being said though, how do Henrik and Filip earn a living post running? surely things would be tight financially without jobs and athletic career ending in mid 30s at max.

My wife and I were fascinated watching the early years of Team Ingebrigtsen, when they first started dating and she was mostly living with Jakob at age 16. It's a very unusual arrangement at that age and the chances of both sets of parents allowing something like that are very slim. Yet it all worked out well for them, despite the occasional grumbling by Gjert.

Whew, it's a woman!