Final weekend, Nice Britain’s Josh Kerr set a brand new indoor two-mile world document on the 2024 Millrose Video games, shaving almost three seconds off the earlier document time. Kerr’s record-breaking return to the observe since profitable a world championship title within the 1,500m final summer time in Budapest garnered widespread reward—besides from Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who claimed he might have overwhelmed Kerr “blindfolded.”
In an interview with Norway’s TV2, Ingebrigtsen was requested about Kerr’s new world document. “It is rather constructive for me that my rivals are getting higher. Then I don’t need to run alone,” stated Ingebrigtsen.
The Olympic 1,500m champion, who holds the two-mile world document [outdoors] of seven:54.10, isn’t giving Kerr’s efficiency a lot credence. “It’s not sure that he runs any higher now than final 12 months on the identical time; he didn’t run two miles then,” stated Ingebrigtsen. “I might have overwhelmed him in that race, blindfolded… But it surely’s good that individuals run higher than they’ve executed earlier than.”
Ingebrigtsen has been unable to compete for the reason that 2023 Diamond League Ultimate in Eugene, Ore., in mid-September as a result of a nagging Achilles damage. In response to Norway’s NRK, the damage started when he took day off from operating for his marriage ceremony and honeymoon within the Maldives. Challenges arose when he resumed coaching, resulting in months of sidelined restoration. This damage will hold him out of each the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow and the World XC in Belgrade in March.
In the meantime, Kerr, the reigning world champion within the 1,500m, will race once more on the Athletics U.Ok. Indoor Championships this weekend earlier than embarking on his quest for world indoor gold within the males’s 1,500m or 3,000m in his dwelling nation of Scotland subsequent month.
Ingebrigtsen is again in coaching and plans to make his season debut on the Prefontaine Basic in late Might or on the Bislett Video games in Oslo in early June. The potential showdown between these two titans of the game could not occur till a Diamond League meet in July or on the Paris Olympic Video games in August.
