{"id":257855,"date":"2026-08-14T23:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/but-im-still-the-king-jakob-ingebrigtsen-crowned-european-5000m-champion-athletics-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:28:14","slug":"but-im-still-the-king-jakob-ingebrigtsen-crowned-european-5000m-champion-athletics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/but-im-still-the-king-jakob-ingebrigtsen-crowned-european-5000m-champion-athletics-news\/","title":{"rendered":"But I&#8217;m Still the King: Jakob Ingebrigtsen Crowned European 5,000m Champion &#8211; Athletics News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Jakob Ingebrigtsen<\/strong> had been out of competition for almost a year and has returned in a big way. The Norwegian has been crowned the European champion in the 5000 metres, defending a title that has borne his name since Berlin 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">THE TRUE BOSS OF THE 5000m: KINGebrigtsen \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4<\/p>\n<p>Jakob Ingebrigtsen is back after months without competing: gold at the Europeans ahead of Bremm and Daguinos; Gressier ends up without a medal #EuropeanAthletics #Birmingham2026 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sghWSNC7Dt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sghWSNC7Dt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eurosport.es (@Eurosport_ES) August 10, 2026\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The silver went to the German <strong>Florian Bremm<\/strong>, while the French <strong>Etienne<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Daguinos<\/strong> took bronze. Ingebrigtsen thus preserves his <strong>continental reign<\/strong>: he does not know what it\u2019s like to lose an outdoor European Championship.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<p>View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7da6b46c\">\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-26a0b108\">\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-4157ba87 gb-headline-text\">Dylan Holloway<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always been fascinated by the stories hidden behind a stopwatch, a finish line or a record-breaking performance. At Athletics News, I cover athletes, competitions and the moments shaping track and field, with a particular interest in the people and journeys behind the results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.athletics.co.ke\/but-im-still-the-king-jakob-ingebrigtsen-crowned-european-5000m-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakob Ingebrigtsen had been out of competition for almost a year and has returned in a big way. The Norwegian has been crowned the European champion in the 5000 metres, defending a title that has borne his name since Berlin 2018. THE TRUE BOSS OF THE 5000m: KINGebrigtsen \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4 Jakob Ingebrigtsen is back after months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-257855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}