Jakob Ingebrigtsen is targeting yet more continental success at the Apeldoorn 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships from 6-9 March.
The Norwegian, who won his third senior title at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in his most recent competitive outing last month, is planning a brief indoor season with the European Athletics Indoor Championships in the centre of his plans.
Ingebrigtsen has already accrued five gold medals at the European Athletics Indoor Championships and if he was to defend his 1500m and 3000m titles in March, he would become the joint most successful male athlete in championship history alongside Soviet sprinter Valeriy Borzov who won seven gold medals between 1970 and 1977.
Ingebrigtsen won the 1500m and 3000m titles at both the 2021 and 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships along with 3000m gold and 1500m silver when he was still a junior in Glasgow 2019.
Thanks in no small part to Ingebrigtsen's exploits, Norway topped the medal table for the first time in European Athletics Indoor Championships history in Istanbul two years ago, winning four gold medals in total.
Aside from Ingebrigtsen’s exploits, Karsten Warholm won gold in the 400m while Sondre Guttormsen clinched victory in the pole vault.
