The 21-year-old has already collected triumphs and medals in senior championships for four years. But the big diamond you get as a winner of the Diamond League, he has never secured. – Unlucky! says Jakob Ingebrigtsen about the reason, and laughs. Last year he became Olympic champion, beating Timothy Cheruiyot for the first time. But when the final in the Diamond League took place just over a month later, it was the Kenyan who was the strongest in the duel. He claims it went as expected. – Then and there it didn’t give me as much as I would like it to, so it’s a bit different now, says Ingebrigtsen. WE WERE BEATEN: Timothy Cheruiyot won the Diamond League 2021 at 1500 meters – ahead of Jakob Ingebrigtsen. Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP – Then I was quite tired after what happened in Tokyo. Understandably enough. I feel a little better and better prepared this year. Before that, I just wasn’t better, he adds. – A bigger goal Andreas Thorkildsen was the first Norwegian to win the Diamond League final, the first year it was held, in 2010. Karsten Warholm won the trophy in both 2020 and 2021. In 1500 metres, a full 10 out of 11 final victories have gone to Kenya. And Ingebrigtsen acknowledges that it is a title that hangs quite high. – It’s fun to win things you haven’t won before, and I know that it takes a lot to qualify for this race. It is the best of the best, it is an actual final, he says, adding that it is difficult to compare it with medals. LAST RACE: Jakob Ingebrigtsen and fiance Elisabeth Asserson in Zurich for a press conference. Photo: Hanne Skjellum / news – That’s what’s nice. You can work for slightly different things, so it is certainly a bigger goal for me and to win the final. Tracks more unpredictable run The double European champion has won all the Diamond League events he has participated in this season. An English mile in Eugene and at Bislett, and at 1500 meters in Lausanne. Now it is ready for the last race this year, in Zurich, where the 1500 meters will be held on Thursday. But he does not believe in times as fast as almost two weeks ago. – There is a little more at stake than is usually the case in a normal Diamond League vote, so people will probably run a little more untidy and a little more uncertain than they usually do. When there is a lot at stake, as in a championship, you do a lot of stupid things, which makes it more unpredictable. But I really like to run fast and at the same time win, says Ingebrigtsen confidently. There is 30,000 Swiss francs, i.e. just over NOK 300,000, in prize money for the winner. – I think very little about that, he states. Watch the Diamond League from Zurich on NRK2 from 17.30 on Wednesday evening, and from 19.00 Thursday.
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