Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Olympic champion in the 1,500m, will not participate in the Madrid meeting on February 22, the penultimate event of the indoor gold circuit of the World Athletics Championships, according to the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation. .
“We regret to inform that Jakob Ingebrigtsen will ultimately not participate in the World Indoor Tour Madrid 2023. Together with his team, he has made this decision because he considers it the most appropriate in his preparation”, reported the RFEA on his social network. networks.
The Norwegian athlete, since his victory on December 11 at the European cross in Turin, has not been able to continue training due to various health problems.
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 ended up returning to his country due to several colds.
His first this season took place last Wednesday, at the Liévin rally (France), in a 1,500m race in which he demonstrated his superiority by winning with authority with a time of 3:32.38, two seconds behind break his world record, and crossed the finish line first, beating Frenchman Azzedine Habz by almost three seconds, who stopped the clock in 3:35.27.
In Madrid, the initial objective was to try to beat the world record for the 3,000 meters on an indoor track, which the Ethiopian Lamecha Girma (7:23.81) did this week in Liévin. Later, after expressing his doubts about competing in the Spanish capital, he left open the possibility of running the 1500m, which will not be possible either.