OSLO: Olympic 5,000 metres cham­­pion Jakob Ingebrigtsen is set to miss this month’s Diamond Lea­gue meetings in Poland and Belg­ium as he recovers from injury, his spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Ingebrigtsen had been scheduled to run the 1,500m in Brussels on Aug 22 and was also listed for the meet­ing in Poland on Aug 16, ha­v­ing been announced for the ev­e­nt as early as December last year.

Ingebrigtsen,24, has struggled with an Achilles injury over the last few months and had to drop out of the Ostrava Golden Spike and Oslo Bislett Games in June.

“He is still working on getting rid of the injury he has sustained to an Achilles. Unfortunately. He would very much have liked to be able to participate,” Ingebrigtsen’s spokesperson Espen Skoland said.

Ingebrigtsen has not competed since claiming double gold in the 1,500m and 3,000m at the World Indoor Championships in March. He has spent recent weeks training in St. Moritz, where his camp say he is making steady progress.

No revised timeline has been given for a return to competition, but Ingebrigtsen has said his goal is to compete at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September.

Published in Dawn, August 8th, 2025