The 24-year-old Jakob won Olympic gold in the 1,500 meters at the Tokyo Games in 2021 and the 5,000 at the Paris Games in 2024. He was world champion at the 5,000 in 2022 and '23.

Gjert Ingebrigtsen, the father of Norwegian track star Jakob Ingebrigtsen, was convicted Monday of assaulting his daughter and handed a suspended prison sentence. In a trial that started in March ...

Gjert Ingebrigtsen, the father of track and field star Jakob Ingebrigtsen and six other children, has been convicted of assaulting his daughter Ingrid but acquitted of other charges of abuse after ...

Jakob had alleged that he was abused both physically and mentally from 2008 until 2018. The prosecutor had requested a prison sentence of 2½ years. A total of Nkr400,000 (£29,800) in ...

Jakob, the 5,000m Olympic champion and one of the biggest stars in track and field, told the court that he had been a victim of domestic violence and said he had been punched and kicked by his father.