{"id":2547,"date":"2022-02-17T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/title-contenders-jakob-ingebrigtsen\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T08:50:00","slug":"title-contenders-jakob-ingebrigtsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/title-contenders-jakob-ingebrigtsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Title contenders: Jakob Ingebrigtsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian distance prodigy <strong>Jakob Ingebrigtsen<\/strong> was one of the breakout stars of 2021, claiming Olympic gold in the 1500m and cruising to a total of four victories on the Wanda Diamond League circuit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old returned to action with a bang this week as he launches his 2022 indoor season with a 1500m world record at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Lievin, France.<\/p>\n<p>Ingebrigtsen will be hoping to build on that success as he sets his sights on a first ever Diamond Trophy this summer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LrzUvBMgz6s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch: Best of Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the Wanda Diamond League<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian will be among the favourites for the Wanda Diamond League title in both the men&#8217;s 1500m and the men&#8217;s 5000m this year, after narrowly missing out on both last season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ingebrigtsen cruised to two victories, including a European record in Florence, on his Road to the Final in the 5000m, before stepping back to focus on the 1500m in Zurich.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was beaten to the trophy by four-time champion <strong>Timothy Cheruiyot<\/strong>, however, in a thrilling final showdown at the Letzigrund Stadium.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan legend Cheruiyot and Ingebrigtsen will resume their rivalry in 2022, with chances to face each other early in the season at Doha and Birmingham.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ingebrigtsen could also be eyeing glory in the 5000m, a title which was taken by Ethiopian 20-year-old Berihu Aregawi last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2015 champion <strong>Yomif Kejelcha <\/strong>will also be hoping to pick up his second Diamond Trophy in 2022, having smashed the Diamond League record with a barnstorming run on Ingebrigtsen&#8217;s home turf in Oslo last season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Uganda&#8217;s world record holder and Olympic champion <strong>Joshua Cheptegei<\/strong> will also be among the favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Cheptegei joined an elite group of athletes who have broken a world record on the Diamond League circuit with his historic performance in Monaco in 2020, and will be out to reclaim the title he last won in 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/culGM_rAhmQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch: Fastest men&#8217;s 5000m in Diamond League history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakob Ingebrigtsen launched his indoor season with a world record in Lievin on Thursday. Will...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[255,795,114,6,661,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-1500m","tag-795","tag-5000m","tag-diamond-league","tag-ingebrigtsen","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}