Piemonte 2022: Jakob Ingebrigtsen will compete
29 Novembre 2022The champion has been called up to the Norway team to defend the title won last year in Dublin. At the European Cross Country Championships, he faces Katir and Crippa. Defending champion Grovdal announced among the women
The line up of the European Cross Country Championships in Venaria Reale on Sunday 11 December is taking shape. The news of the day is that among the stars of Piemonte 2022 there will be the Olympic champion of the 1500m and world champion of the 5000m Jakob Ingebrigtsen, one of the symbolic men of european and world athletics. The middle-distance icon figures among the athletes officially called up by the Norwegian Federation and will be in the race at Parco La Mandria to confirm the title won last year in Dublin. In the palmares of the 22-year-old athlete there are also four consecutive victories at the EuroCross in the under 20 category, the first in Italy, in Chia, in 2016. Record numbers for an athlete who has never lost in this competition: five participations, five victories.His two older brothers Henrik and Filip, both already gold medalists in the event, Henrik among the U23s in 2012 and Filip among the seniors in 2018, will come together as a team with him. This season Jakob Ingebrigtsen won the world title in Eugene in the 5000m after the silver medal in the 1500m, and in Monaco of Bavaria he reiterates the gold domination of four years earlier by confirming the victories in the 1500m and in the 5000m.
Norway also announced the presence of reigning European cross country champion Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal for women, who won twelve months ago in Dublin after five consecutive podiums. The Spain team was also made official today in which the participation of Mohamed Katir stands out, bronze medalist at the World Championships in Oregon in the 1500m and silver medal in the 5000m at the European Championships in Munich, in both cases behind Jakob Ingebrigtsen with whom will repeat the challenge. Very tough rivals for the italian Yeman Crippa, already silver three years ago, who aims to do right in the home edition. Charles Hicks is present in the Great Britain team, who will try to defend the under 23 title after being crowned NCAA champion in the United States.
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