Ingebrigtsen has played on from both trials and semi-finals earlier in the WC. Before the final, he seemed relaxed in the meeting with news, where he was chasing his first WC gold in the 1500 metres. – I expect to do as well as I can and hopefully bring out what I am good at, he said ahead of the race. – By getting out what I’m good at, then of course it’s winning, he added. Ingebrigtsen has been the great one at 1500 meters for the past two seasons, but suffered a stinging defeat in the WC final over the distance 13 months ago. Then he was beaten by Jake Wightman. In Budapest he was again beaten by a Briton. From the start, Kenyan Abel Kipsang took the lead, while Ingebrigtsen quickly advanced to second position. Narve Gilje Nordås was at the very back, while Ingebrigtsen took command after 500 metres. The question was therefore – could he keep 1000 meters in front? 200 meters before the end Josh Kerr came to the side and in the last 100 meters Kerr was the strongest and won ahead of Ingebrigtsen and Nordås. – I felt that I didn’t have very good legs today. There is not much more I can say. It’s very bad luck, I think. I felt in the warm-up for the semi-final that my throat was a little dry. I don’t feel my body was quite 100 percent. In today’s race I wasn’t the best, says Ingebrigtsen to news. – That’s Jakob’s small, small weakness there, if he goes a little too carefully along the way. Then there are runners who in top form have a better change of pace, who have a rhythm change out of the last turn that Jakob doesn’t quite match, says news’s expert commentator Vebjørn Rodal. – There is a lot of capacity focus in Jakob’s training and it comes at the expense of something. It is that speed, he says further. Kerr won with a time of 3:29.38. Ingebrigtsen ran in at 3:29.65, while Nordås came in three hundredths behind Ingebrigtsen. Follow news’s broadcast from the WC in athletics here: Missing the WC gold in the 1,500 meters Jakob Ingebrigtsen is only 22 years old, but has a track record out of another world. On Wednesday evening, there was a new WC medal at the favorite distance of 1500 metres. Already in 2018, as a 17-year-old, he won his first two championship golds as a senior. In the European Championships in Berlin, gold was won in both the 1500 and 5000 metres. The following year he ran both the two distances in the WC. In the 5000 metres, he took the lead on the last lap, but stiffened and finished fifth. In the 1,500 meters there was little to do with gold winner Timothy Cheruiyot, but the disappointment with Ingebrigtsen was enormous after he did not reach the sprint for the other medals and came fourth. “Completely tragic” and “extremely bad”, said Ingebrigtsen herself afterwards. – This is one of the worst things I have ever been a part of. It is absolutely tragic, said a then 19-year-old Ingebrigtsen. Two World Cup silvers in the 1500 last year After the corona pandemic postponed the Olympics in Tokyo until 2021, the championship in Japan became a success story. There he won the 1500 meters and took his first global senior gold. Last year it was silver in the 1500 meters in both the indoor and outdoor WC. In the indoor WC, he tested positive for the coronavirus the following day, after he “didn’t feel quite well” during the final. Outdoors, he was beaten by Jake Wightman. Then the frustration was again great. – I think it’s embarrassing to be so good, but at the same time be so damn bad, said Ingebrigtsen, and continued: – It’s absolutely damn. Unfortunately, it’s stupid to say that. WC silver is an incredibly big thing to achieve, but at the same time I am beaten by people who are worse than me. I am disappointed in myself, said Ingebrigtsen. Since then, he has won every competition he has competed in, including World Championship gold in the 5000m, European Championship gold in the 1500 and 5000m, gold in the European Cross Country and European Championship indoor gold in the 1500 and 3000m. On Wednesday, there was another WC silver.
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