The 21-year-old Norwegian prodigy will try a successful feat only in Lagat in 2007 at the World Cup: “I have high goals, I work with my brothers. And for the world record … “
The career goal is stated: to become the first man in history to win three consecutive Olympic titles in the 1,500. For now, only Lord Sebastian Coe has managed to conquer two, between Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984. Ergo: Jakob Ingebrigtsen, 21 years old in September, with the Tokyo one in his drawer, already has his sights on Paris 2024 and Los Angeles. Angeles 2028. The Norwegian, however, programmed to win since he was 12 and who has managed it at the highest level since he was 17, is first expected by a series of however prestigious passes. Even at the Eugene World Championships, starting in eight days, he will pursue, for example, a company that boasts only one precedent: the 1500-5000 brace. In Osaka 2007 he succeeded the American Bernard Lagat. First the shortest distance (heat on Saturday 16, semifinal on Sunday 17, final on Tuesday 19), then the longest (heat on Thursday 21, final on Sunday 24). Jakob, he’s been in Berkeley, California since Monday. It is from there that last night, via Teams, he allowed himself for half an hour.
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