{"id":1551261,"date":"2022-07-12T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T21:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1551261"},"modified":"2022-07-12T17:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T21:50:27","slug":"athletics-olympic-champion-ingebrigtsen-sets-sights-on-gold-in-eugene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/athletics-olympic-champion-ingebrigtsen-sets-sights-on-gold-in-eugene\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Olympic champion Ingebrigtsen sets sights on gold in Eugene"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fathletics-olympic-champion-ingebrigtsen-sets-sights-on-gold-in-eugene%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1551261&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Philip O\u2019Connor<\/p>\n<p>STOCKHOLM (Reuters) \u2013     Norway\u2019s Olympic 1500 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen has one goal at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon \u2013 to win as much as possible. <\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old track prodigy told reporters on a conference call that he will do his best to compete in the 1500m and 5000m at the championships in Eugene, which get underway on July 15, if the schedule allows.<\/p>\n<p>Further down the line, he has one eye on the long-standing world record for the 1500m. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe there\u2019s some expectations of my performances in Eugene \u2026 so I\u2019m looking forward to getting started and hopefully getting a medal and in a world championship outdoors,\u201d Ingebrigtsen said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to go into the 1500 first and see how that goes,  and I\u2019m going to see if I\u2019m going to go and do the 5k as well. But if everything goes according to my plan I\u2019m of course trying to win as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ingebrigtsen headed to America after the Diamond League meet in Oslo to start his preparations for the World Championships, training at altitude in Flagstaff, Arizona, which is some 2000 metres above sea level.<\/p>\n<p>Previously coached by his father Gjert, his brothers Henrik and Filip are also middle distance runners but Jakob is very much the star of the family after setting a new Olympic and European 1500m record as he cruised to gold in Tokyo in a time of 3:28.32.<\/p>\n<p>However, he believes the current world record of 3:26.00, set in 1998 by Morocco\u2019s Hicham El Guerrouj, is not yet within his reach. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like asking people why they\u2019re not going under nine seconds for the 100 metres, it\u2019s only half a second (better than the record),\u201d he explained. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though it\u2019s only a couple of seconds (to the 1500m record), it\u2019s quite a large gap that needs to be filled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The focus may be on medals for now, but Ingebrigtsen is not ruling out a tilt at the record at some point in his career. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that I can run faster. Of course, I\u2019m going to try to improve my own times trying to go under 3:28, and then if I do that, try to go under 3:27,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd eventually, of course, I\u2019m gonna close to get to the world record. And if that\u2019s the case, then the world record\u2019s always there, a realistic goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Philip O\u2019Connor; Editing by Toby Davis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2725532\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6B0ZH-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6B0ZH-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Philip O\u2019Connor STOCKHOLM (Reuters) \u2013 Norway\u2019s Olympic 1500 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen has one goal at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon \u2013 to win as much as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}