Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Karsten Warholm, Armand Duplantis and Yulimar Rojas will be in the spotlight on Thursday (16) at the Bislett Games, the 5th stage of the 2023 Diamond League series, in a sold-out Bislett Stadium in Oslo.
Twenty-five world records have been set since 1965, when former politician Arne Haukvik founded the Bislett Games. The most memorable highlights of the major Norwegian meeting were world records set by Sebastian Coe in the 800m (1:42.33) in 1979 and in the 1000m (2:12.18) in 1981, David Moorcroft in the 5000m (13:00.41) in 1982, Steve Cram in the mile (3:46.32), Said Aouita in the men’s 5000 metres (13:00.40), Ingrid Kristiansen in the women’s 10000 metres in 1985 (30:59.42), Yobes Ondieki in the men’s 10000m (26:58.38) in 1993, Haile Gebrselassie in the men’s 10000m (26:31.32) in 1997, Trine Hattestad in the women’s javelin throw (69.48m) in 2000, Meseret Defar in the women’s 5000m (14:16.63) in 2007, Tirunesh Dibaba in the women’s 5000m (14:11.15) in 2008 and Karsten Warholm in the men’s 400 metres hurdles (46.70) in 2021.
Men’s 1500 metres:
Norwegian star Jakob Ingebrigtsen will face eight of the top nine athletes of the World Athletics Ranking. Ingebrigtsen could threaten the 25-year-old world 1500 metres record set by Hicham El Guerrouj in Rome in 1998 with 3:26.00.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen: “I see the world record as one of the biggest challenges I am going to face in my career”.
Ingebrigtsen became the first Norwegian athlete to win the Oslo Dream Mile in last year’s edition of the Bislett Games breaking the national and the Wanda Diamond League record with 3:46.46. He moved up to sixth on the world all-time list, just 0.14 shy of Steve Cram’s European record of 3:46.32 set in Oslo in 1985. This year his target is to become the first Norwegian athlete to win the 1500m in the history of the Bislett Games.
Ingebrigtsen continued his successful 2022 season with the gold medal in the 5000 metres and the silver medal in the 1500 metres behind Jake Wightman at the World Championships in Eugene, the double European gold medal in the 1500m and 5000m at the European Championships in Munich. In the Diamond League he won two 1500m races in Lausanne in 3:29.05 and the Zurich final in a world leading time of 3:29.02.
The Norwegian star started his Diamond League season with a win in the 1500 metres in Rabat in 3:32.59 and a world all-time best over the two miles distance in Paris with 7:54.10.
The other Norwegian athletes…
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