Athletics
World Indoor Tour
The Norwegian, world champion of the 5,000 meters, seeks a new record on the indoor track
Jakob Ingebrigtsen will assault the world record of the 3,000 meters on the indoor track during the Madrid meeting of the World Indoor Tour. which will be held in the Polideportivo Gallur next February 22. The Norwegian athlete will be the great star of an event that is gaining international presence after Yulimar Rojas and Grant Holloway broke the triple jump and 60 meter hurdles world records there.
Ingebrigtsen has just wrapped up a great 2022 after becoming 5,000-meter world champion and 1,500-meter runner-up in Oregon, and revalidating the European double in both distances a month later in Munich. Just ten days ago he was also proclaimed European cross country champion in Piemonte.
The also Olympic champion will try in Madrid to lower the 7:24.90 that the Kenyan Daniel Komen It has been the world top since 1998 in the 3,000 meters indoors. He also aspires to lower Adel Mechaal’s European record (7: 30.82).
Ingebrigtsen, 22, is also a double European champion in the 3,000, where he has a best mark of 7:48.20, achieved in the Polish town of Torun in 2021. On the indoor track he already has the world record of 1,500 (3:30.60). , achieved in Lievin in February of this year. He also owns the European records of 1,500 and 5,000 outdoors.
Madrid will be the sixth and penultimate stop of the World Indoor Tour just three days after the Spanish Indoor Championships were held there.
