Ingebritsen - an overlooked facet of his brilliance

he ability to shift gears allows him to do exactly this. Reminds of Coe, who perhaps was even better at that.

The drawback of this tactic is, that it costs quite some extra energy to overtake people later on.

Amazing, how almost every OP gets Jakobs name wrong.

Which is why his opponents should race at a honest pace. Aching Mu races honest and that leaves very little room for her opponents to catch up and close the gap. While Ingebritsen is sitting in the pack. His opponents should be accelerating the pace to gap him.

El G ran heats from the back. If we can find a tape of the 2001 worlds.

He’s a polar opposite if Coe. Jakob is possibly the worst gear shifter in every 1500m he’s in. Coe was a 1:41 dude.

Yes! As a Norwegian I cannot put myself in their shoes but its so fascinating. Ingebrigt is a norwegian variant of Engelbrecht. -sen means its a patronymic (son of, but not allways interpreted literally - Jakobs father is named Gjert).

I suppose those writing it wrong never have heard it pronounced the right way and/or pronounce it the wrong way when they read it.

Inge-brigt-sen

You can no longer criticize Jakob here anymore. What a pathetic place this is now.

I agree this is a good plan in like 90% of races, but I think it hurt him in this years World Champs. He went right to the back and then had to work his way through the field as Kipsang was running 55.x up front and never got position on the rail until after 700m.

If the race is going out in 55 and 1:51 he should grab the rail sooner. During the heats and even 5,000m this is an optimal strategy.

Jakob - Jacob = Yaacob

Comes from the middle east (old Hebrew, then Arabic) and in the final step it reached the Nordic European countries.

Unfortunately, you’re talking to a crowd with the attention span of a squirrel. Many have read Jim Ryun’s name for 10+ years; yet they still spell it as “Ryan”. That’s only 4 letters.

Pay attention and it is almost always the fittest athletes who are praised for being such genius tacticians. A bonus if they are white, for some, like the OP.

For those who haven't watched that heat, I recommend doing so. This race, more than any other, demonstrates the gap between Jakob and the rest of the 1500 meter world (with a handful of exceptions). He looks as if he is on a warmup run, yet finds himself near the lead on the final stretch. No reason to win ... but it as if he can't avoid doing so, because he can't run slowly enough not to pull away. Meanwhile, as he is cruising home in an apparent canter, the rest of the field is grimacing and sprinting toward the tape, all desperately seeking those #2 to #4 slots, yet falling further behind Jakob with each step. Jake Weightman, a 3:31 runner, collapses at the finish line. Meanwhile, Jakob appears as if he has finished his warmup and is now ready to run hard.

You are mostly correct. Jakob did not run particularly smart. It is a matter of being fitter than the rest. Jakob ran like a clown as usual, looking like the hotdog he is. He was running lane 2 for much of the latter part of the race due to his questionable tactics. People like the OP conflate fitness with tactics. And the other poster’s reference to Seb Coe is absurd. Yes they are both white. We get it. They are not like each other at all.

This isn’t “tactical genius,” this is running against a field of much worse runners, basically trash competition.

A 4:30 1500m kid can do the same thing against 4:40 runners lol.

Coe is of Indian descent on his mother's side. I believe he is 1/4th Indian.

His Wikipedia entry currently has this passage:

"Coe was born at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, Hammersmith, London.[10] His father was athletics coach Peter Coe and his mother, Tina Angela Lal, was of half Indian descent, born to a Punjabi father, Karan Malhotra, and an English/Irish mother, Arnav Gannamani (née Swan).[citation needed]"

scroll.in

Sebastian Malhotra Coe: The little-known Punjabi connection of an English Olympic legend

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Lord Coe might seem the quintessential posh Englishman. But he has an interesting Indian link.

Link:scroll.in/magazine/825253/sebastian-ma...

Love watching him run, but him taking off .3 after everyone else and then losing the race by about this has to be discussed.

Sure, having to withstand multiple attacks from the Kenyans likely cost him the energy he later needed, but one can’t predict how the race will unfold.

It's probably just me, but his consistant finger waging and arrogance that no one is possible of beating him at his best is starting to wear a bit thin.