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Gjert Ingebrigtsen | |
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Born | Båtsfjord, Norway | 12 January 1966
Occupation | Sports coach |
Organization | Sandnes IL |
Partner | Tone Eva Ingebrigtsen (née Tønnessen) |
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Gjert Arne Ingebrigtsen (born 12 January 1966) is a Norwegian sports coach.
He is the trainer of at three athletes that have finished their individual first [1] heat at the 2025 World Athletics Championships—José Carlos Pinto, from Portugal, and Narve Gilje Nordås, and Kieran Lumb from Canada. [2] [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). [2] 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. [2] 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. [2]
According to media (12 September), it is obvious that the Norwegian federation is giving preferential treatment to Jakob Ingebrigtsen over Gjert Inbebrigtsen's team member, at the 2025 World Athletics Championships; Jakob has two people (brothers of him), that have gotten accreditation, while Narve Gilje Nordås has not gotten accreditation for anyone at his side. [8]
On 14 September, a runner on Gjert Ingebrigtsen's team, was one of the runners that knocked Jakob Ingebrigtsen out of a heat before the semi-finals (1500 m), at the 2025 World Championship; That Portuguese runner feels that he has been discriminated [9] against, by not getting accreditation for his coach, Gjert Ingebrigtsen. Furthermore, according to José Carlos Pinto—World Athletics is the one that has made the final decision in the case regarding not giving accreditation to Gjert Ingebrigtsen. [10] However, World Athletics said (on the same day), that no countries asked for Ingebrigtsen to get accreditation. [11]
Gjert Ingebrigtsen has been coaching (without accreditation) in Japan, according to media in September 2025; He has been coaching Narve Gilje Nordås, there; Ingebrigtsen and the athletes in "Vikings Athletics" have been preparing, there. [12]
He formerly coached three of his sons: Henrik, Filip, and Jakob.
Ingebrigtsen coached three of his sons until 2022; [13] 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. [14]
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. [15] Both Filip and Jakob competed in 1500 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, [16] [17] where Jakob won the gold medal and set Olympic record with time 3:28.32. [18]
The Ingebrigtsen family has been featured in the television series Team Ingebrigtsen (2016-2021) and Ingebrigtsen: Born to Run (2024). [19] [20] [21]
Ingebrigtsen coaches (as of 2025), middle distance runner Narve Nordås, who won bronze at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest. [22] [23]
In July 2025, Nettavisen commentator Ernst A. Lersveen , 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. [24]
As of May 2025, Jose Carlos Pinto has started training with Gjert Ingebrigtsen. [25]
Ingebrigtsen is also the trainer of Kieran Lumb, a Canadian, and has been training him for a while (as of July 2025). [26]
As of July 2025, Gjert Ingebrigtsen is still in a conflict with Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports; [24] 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. [27] The following month, he coached at the Norwegian championships. [7]
Besides coaching athletes, he still works within the field of logistics (as of 2025). [28]
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. [29] Gjert, via his lawyer, stated that the allegations were "baseless" and that he was never violent. [30] [31] [32] [33] [34]
Gjert's wife Tone started her testimony on 28 April 2025. She did not publicly testify. [35] Tone has declined being interviewed by the police in regard to the lawsuit. [36] Two of Gjert's sons, Kristoffer and Filip, were not allowed in court during that session, as requested by Tone herself.[ clarification needed ] [35]
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. [37] He was acquitted of all other charges. [38] [39] [40] [41]
Family: The patriarch of the Ingebrigtsen family, Ingebrigtsen was born in the Båtsfjord Municipality, [42] and resides in Sandnes. He is married to Tone Eva Tønnessen. The couple has seven children, including middle-distance runners Henrik, Filip, and Jakob. [43]
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