{"id":589395,"date":"2026-08-11T00:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589395\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T00:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:20:13","slug":"european-athletics-championships-2026-jakob-ingebrigtsen-claims-stunning-5000m-gold-on-injury-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589395\/","title":{"rendered":"European Athletics Championships 2026: Jakob Ingebrigtsen claims stunning 5,000m gold on injury return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ingebrigtsen&#8217;s last competitive race was at the World Championships in Tokyo last September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He finished 10th in the 5,000m final, having lined up as the two-time defending champion despite his Achilles issue preventing him from competing during the outdoor season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Announcing his return at the European Championships in Birmingham, Ingebrigtsen wrote: &#8220;If you&#8217;re waiting for the perfect preparation, perfect conditions, perfect timing, you&#8217;ll be waiting your whole life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said, following discussions with his team, that there was &#8220;no reason not to race&#8221;, suggesting that while he was back to full health, he was not necessarily in shape to compete for his latest continental title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He did not make it easy for himself. After a slow start, Ingebrigtsen began to make his way through the pack but seemed to be stuck behind France&#8217;s Jimmy Gressier on the final lap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he was able to wrestle his way through before producing a superb sprint finish to keep his pristine European record intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ingebrigtsen&#8217;s last competitive race was at the World Championships in Tokyo last September. He finished 10th in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-589395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}