Twelve months in the past Jakob Ingebrigtsen set a world indoor 1500m document of three:30.60 on the Assembly Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais in Liévin, France. On Wednesday (Feb 15) he’s again on the identical occasion within the 1500m once more, however it’s the 22-year-old’s first race since December following a bout of sickness throughout January.
In Turin in December he gained his sixth European cross-country title in model. However he pulled out of the Cursa dels Nassos in Barcelona over the brand new yr interval as a consequence of sickness and continued to have issues at an altitude coaching camp a couple of days later.
Judging from his indoor coaching session movies posted on his Instagram just lately, although, he seems to be again in full coaching and his rivals in Liévin embody Teddese Lemi of Ethiopia, Adel Mechaal of Spain and Michal Rozmys of Poland.
“This yr had a tough begin, as I’ve been battling a sore throat,” he says. “Now I’m lastly beginning to really feel like myself, and dealing in direction of what I like essentially the most – successful races and operating quick.”
Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Mark Shearman)
Gudaf Tsegay has additionally set a world 1500m document in Liévin up to now and, like Ingebrigtsen, the Ethiopian is again on the scene of her success in 2021 and hoping to enhance her mark of three:53.09.
Liévin has attracted lots of the largest names on the circuit and Mondo Duplantis is within the males’s pole vault simply days after his world document makes an attempt in Berlin.
Mondo Duplantis (Getty)
Kevin Mayer, the world decathlon record-holder, is in motion within the lengthy bounce and 60m hurdles.
Femke Bol runs the 400m and can hope to construct on the excellent 49.96 that she ran in Metz on Saturday. Her rivals embody Anna Kielbasinka however the Dutch athlete is unlikely to be concerned as she assaults Jarmila Kratochvilova’s long-standing world indoor document of 49.59.
Karsten Warholm is in an analogous place within the 400m. After an injury-hit 2022, the Norwegian 400m hurdles world record-holder has began the indoor season in nice kind and will get near his European indoor document of 45.05 within the ultimate occasion of the evening.
Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs of Italy is because of race the boys’s 60m. His opposition contains Commonwealth 100m champion Ferdinand Omanyala and the Ivory Coast’s Arthur Cisse.
Keely Hodgkinson
There usually are not many Brits in Liévin – in all probability because of the UK Indoor Championships beginning three days later – however Keely Hodgkinson shouldn’t be entered for her nationwide championships and as an alternative races over 800m in Liévin.
She faces Noelie Yarigo, the Benin athlete who proved her closest rival in Toruń final week. Mary Moraa, the Commonwealth champion, was disappointing in Toruń however is once more within the line-up in Liévin, together with Halimah Nakaayi and Catriona Bissett amongst others.
The 3000m races have robust fields with the boys’s occasion that includes Thierry Ndikumwenayo, Lamecha Girma, Grant Fisher, Mo Katir, Jacob Krop and Birhanu Balew, whereas the ladies’s race has Ethiopians Lemlem Hailu, Diribe Welteji and Ejgayehu Taye.
Within the males’s race, Daniel Komen’s long-standing world indoor document of seven:24.90 may very well be underneath risk.
Elsewhere Grant Holloway leads the boys’s 60m hurdles line-ups. Fellow American Katie Moon (née Nageotte) heads the ladies’s pole vault subject and can face European champion Wilma Murto of Finland. Olympic champion Miltiádis Tentóglou goes within the males’s lengthy bounce.
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