"I would probably not do it" - Jakob Ingebrigtsen turns down racing any athlete in the 100m ahead of Mondo Duplantis and Karsten Warholm's clash

Jakob Ingebrigtsen turned down the opportunity of racing against any athlete in the 100m ahead of the run between Mondo Duplantis and Karsten Warholm at the Zurich Diamond League in September. However, the 1500m specialist expressed excitement over the pole vaulter and the 400m hurdler's contention.

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Ingebrigtsen faded to fourth in the 1500m as Cole Hocker, Josh Kerr, and Yared Nuguse finished ahead of him. Aiming to avenge his loss to Hocker, Ingebrigtsen, the 1500m world record holder, retained his top position at the 2024 Lausanne Diamond League. He clocked 3:27.83 and took one second off his previous meeting record of 3:28.72.

In a post-race interview, he was asked to comment on pole vault world record holder Mondo Duplantis' 100m clash with Karsten Warholm (the Paris Olympics silver medalist in the 400m hurdles) on September 4.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen could not pick a clear winner but when asked if he would race anyone in the 100m, the 23-year-old turned down the offer.

"I would probably not do it. If you could do that 15 times then its probably good," he said (via an X post by CITIUS Mag).

The highly anticipated race between the world record-holders will take place at the Letzigrund Stadium a day before the Zurich meeting. The idea of racing each other in the distance stemmed from a mid-practice conversation in 2023. Warholm had said:

"It would be fun though.. We can do it but we should schedule a time."

He also offered one of his pair of spikes to the pole vaulter so that he wouldn't back out.

"I will give you a pair of spikes that I use so that you don't have any excuses," Warholm joked.

Duplantis clocked 10.57s in his high school 100m race and clocked 10.49s in 2017.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen happy to return to form after adequate rest after Paris Olympics

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The 23-year-old was the 1500m winner of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and was a podium favorite in Paris. After losing the podium spot at the 2024 Games, Jakob Ingebrigtsen went against reigning Olympic champion Cole Hocker and defeated him at the 2024 Lausanne Diamond League.

In an interview, he said he got "good answers" after taking a two-week break following the Paris Games.

"It's been almost two weeks since Paris so there was plenty of time to recover. For me, a lot of it has been mental, including going home, taking some easy days and then getting back to work. Tonight's race gave me good answers and I'm looking forward to building on this for the rest of the season," Jakob Ingebrigtsen said (via BBC).

The top four from the Olympic finals — Hocker, Kerr, Nuguse, and Ingebrigtsen — will clash in a rematch at the penultimate Wanda Diamond League meeting, Weltklasse Zurich.