Gjert Ingebrigtsen

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Gjert Ingebrigtsen
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Ingebrigtsen in May 2019
Born (1966-01-12) 12 January 1966 (age 59)
Båtsfjord, Norway
OccupationSports coach
Organization Sandnes IL
PartnerTone Eva Ingebrigtsen (née Tønnessen)
Children
Awards
  • Norwegian Sports Coach of the Year (2018)

Gjert Arne Ingebrigtsen (born 12 January 1966) is a Norwegian sports coach.

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He is the trainer of at least two athletes that are qualified for the 2025 World Athletics Championships—José Carlos Pinto, from Portugal, and Narve Gilje Nordås. [1] [2]

Ingebrigtsen is also the trainer of Kieran Lumb, a Canadian, and has been training him for a while (as of July 2025). [3] Ingebrigtsen also trains Per Svela. [4]

As of August, a federation in each of 3 countries, will not give (to Ingebrigtsen), accreditation as a coach, at 2025 World Athletics Championships: Portugal, Canada, and Norway. [5] [6] However, Ingebrigtsen coached at the national championships in Norway, in early August 2025. [7] Earlier (October 2023), the board of directors, of a Norwegian federation banned him from getting accreditation. [5] The ban will last until the board of directors decide differently, according to the Norwegian federation (31 August 2025). [1] The justification for the ban, was to give a "safe framework with athletes at the center", according to the federation's press release in 2023; However, now there is disagreement within the federation, because, the ban is discrimination against Narve Gilje Nordås, because he will not get to bring his coach to the 2025 World Athletics Championships, while other Norwegian athletes can. [1] There is a perception that the Norwegian federation has not ended the ban, because Jakob Asserson Ingebrigtsen does not want to meet Gjert Ingebrigtsen at championships or other competitions. [1]

He formerly coached three of his sons: Henrik, Filip, and Jakob.

Career

Ingebrigtsen coached three of his sons until 2022; [8] those sons all had significant achievements in 2018. At the 2018 European Athletics Championships, Jakob won gold medals in both 1500 m and 5000 m, while Henrik won a silver medal in 5,000 m and placed fourth in 1500 m. Filip won gold medal at the 2018 European Cross Country Championships. Ingebrigtsen was awarded the title Norwegian Sports Coach of the Year for 2018, awarded at Idrettsgallaen in January 2019. [9]

Henrik, Filip and Jakob have all competed at the Summer Olympics. Henrik placed fifth in 1500 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and reached the semifinal in 1500 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [10] Both Filip and Jakob competed in 1500 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, [11] [12] where Jakob won the gold medal and set Olympic record with time 3:28.32. [13]

The Ingebrigtsen family has been featured in the television series Team Ingebrigtsen (2016-2021) and Ingebrigtsen: Born to Run (2024). [14] [15] [16]

Ingebrigtsen coaches (as of 2025), middle distance runner Narve Nordås, who won bronze at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest. [17] [18]

In July 2025, Nettavisen commentator Ernst A. Lersveen  [ nb ], said that Gjert Ingebrigtsen should not be punished by Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports. Furthermore, Lersveen said that the federation should "take to heart", the court verdict of 2025 where Ingebrigtsen was acquitted of having harmed an athlete. [19]

As of May 2025, Jose Carlos Pinto has started training with Gjert Ingebrigtsen. [20]

As of July 2025, Gjert Ingebrigtsen is still in a conflict with Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports; [19] however, on July 28, media said that his time of being denied entry as a trainer at athletic events, is coming to an end: he will be accredited as trainer, to the Norwegian Championships, during the first week of August. [21] The following month, he coached at the Norwegian championships. [7]

Besides coaching athletes, he still works within the field of logistics (as of 2025). [22]


2025 courtcase and final verdict

In October 2023, Ingebrigtsen's professional running sons Jakob, Filip, and Henrik released a statement accusing their father and former coach of "aggression, control, and physical violence", also saying that he "took the joy out of the sport they once loved". Gjert stopped coaching his sons in 2022, and was not accredited at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. [23] Gjert, via his lawyer, stated that the allegations were "baseless" and that he was never violent. [24] [25] [26] [27] [28]

Gjert's wife Tone started her testimony on 28 April 2025. She did not publicly testify. [29] Tone has declined being interviewed by the police in regard to the lawsuit. [30] Two of Gjert's sons, Kristoffer and Filip, were not allowed in court during that session, as requested by Tone herself.[ clarification needed ] [29]

In June 2025, Gjert was convicted in a seven-week trial of abuse against his daughter, Ingrid, for a 2022 incident where he used a wet towel to strike her on the face. He was given a 15-day suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay Norwegian krone 10,000 as compensation. [31] He was acquitted of all other charges. [32] [33] [34] [35]

Family

Family: The patriarch of the Ingebrigtsen family, Ingebrigtsen was born in the Båtsfjord Municipality, [36] and resides in Sandnes. He is married to Tone Eva Tønnessen. The couple has seven children, including middle-distance runners Henrik, Filip, and Jakob. [37]

See also

• Ingebrigtsen family

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 https://www.nettavisen.no/norsk-debatt/vm-i-japan-jakob-ingebrigtsen-skadefri-men-gjert-saken-splitter-norsk-friidrett/o/5-95-2591570. Nettavisen.no. Retrieved 2025-08-31
  2. ↑ https://www.nettavisen.no/sport/ellevill-framgang-under-gjert-ingebrigtsen-gjor-apenbart-mye-riktig/s/5-95-2577026. Nettavisen.no. Retrieved 2025-08-22
  3. ↑ https://www.vg.no/sport/i/nyqPKo/canadisk-friidrettsprofil-flytter-til-norge-skal-trenes-av-gjert-ingebrigtsen. VG.no. Retrieved 2025-07-30
  4. ↑ https://www.vg.no/sport/i/GyVX96/gjert-ingebrigtsen-til-vg-tre-og-halvt-aar-med-galskap. VG.no. Retrieved 2025-07-30
  5. 1 2 https://www.vg.no/sport/i/VzmG26/heller-ikke-portugal-gir-gjert-ingebrigtsen-vm-akkreditering. VG.no. Retrieved 2025-08-26
  6. ↑ https://www.vg.no/sport/i/bmp6z3/gjert-ingebrigtsen-vil-ikke-faa-akkreditering-fra-canadas-friidrettsforbund. VG.no. Retrieved 2025-08-14
  7. 1 2 https://www.vg.no/sport/i/PpVQGX/narve-gilje-nordaas-suveren-vinner-nm. Vg.no. Retrieved 2025-08-02
  8. ↑ Skjellum, Hanne (15 August 2022). "Pappa Ingebrigtsen svarer etter sønnens utspill". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  9. ↑ Schibevaag, Torkel Anstensrud (5 January 2019). "Storeslem for familien Ingebrigtsen på Idrettsgallaen". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  10. ↑ "Henrik Ingebrigtsen". olympedia.org. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  11. ↑ "Filip Ingebrigtsen". olympedia.org. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  12. ↑ "Jakob Ingebrigtsen". olympedia.org. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  13. ↑ "INGEBRIGTSEN Jakob". olympics.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  14. ↑ "Team Ingebrigtsen". NRK. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  15. ↑ Team Ingebrigtsen (Biography, Reality-TV), Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Henrik Ingebrigtsen, Filip Ingebrigtsen, Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK), 17 March 2016, retrieved 29 November 2024{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  16. ↑ Ingebrigtsen - Born to Run (Documentary), Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Liva Ingebrigtsen, Astrid Mangen Ingebrigtsen, Salto Film og Fjernsyn, 20 September 2024, retrieved 29 November 2024{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  17. ↑ Lersveen, Ernst A. (29 June 2025). "Jakob kan ikke bestemme alt". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  18. ↑ Dickinson, Marley (19 October 2023). "Ingebrigtsen brothers speak out against their father and former coach". Canadian Running Magazine. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  19. 1 2 Austerheim, Daniel (6 July 2025). "Nå er det over. Nettavisen-kommentator raser: – Uforståelig". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  20. ↑ Hoel, Yasmin Sunde; Friberg, Jens; Folvik, Herman; Christiansen, Anders K. (20 May 2025). "Agenten og friidrettsforbund bekrefter: Portugisisk løper trener med Gjert Ingebrigtsen". VG (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  21. ↑ NTB (28 July 2025). "Askøy24: Gjert Ingebrigtsen har fått NM-akkreditering – kan møte sønnene". VG (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  22. ↑ Christiansen, Anders K.; Herrebrøden, Øyvind (30 July 2025). "Gjert Ingebrigtsen til VG: – Tre og et halvt år med galskap". VG (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  23. ↑ Dickinson, Marley (19 October 2023). "Ingebrigtsen brothers speak out against their father and former coach". Canadian Running Magazine. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  24. ↑ Poole, Harry (2 December 2024). "Ingebrigtsen's father to stand trial on abuse charges". BBC. Archived from the original on 25 December 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  25. ↑ "Father of Jakob Ingebrigtsen denies abuse allegations as trial starts". Reuters. 24 March 2025.
  26. ↑ Ingle, Sean (29 November 2024). "Jakob Ingebrigtsen's father charged over threat to 'beat him to death'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 29 November 2024.
  27. ↑ "Gjert Ingebrigtsen To Stand Trial For Alleged Abuse In 2025". CITIUS MAG. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
  28. ↑ Ormond, Cameron (29 November 2024). "Jakob Ingebrigtsen alleges father abused him from age seven". Canadian Running Magazine. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
  29. 1 2 Barka, Farid Ighoubah, Oda Karlsen Bekkestad, Even Hye T. (29 April 2025). "Jakob og lillesøsteren må holde munn om Tones forklaring". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 August 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  37. ↑ Odinsen, Hege Lyngved (27 October 2018). Throndsen, Jane (ed.). "Et løp for evigheten". VG Helg (in Norwegian). Oslo. pp. 20–28.
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