Operating coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen, father of defending Olympic 5,000m champion and Norwegian distance operating star Jakob Ingebrigtsen, is taking the Norwegian authorities to court docket over fees he abused his youngsters, based on a report in The New York Instances’s The Athletic. In June 2025, the daddy of seven was fined 10,000 Norwegian kroner (about C$1,373) and given a 15-day suspended sentence for a single cost associated to his daughter, Ingrid, however was acquitted of fees associated to his alleged abuse of Jakob.
Gjert Ingebrigtsen, 59, is alleged to have struck his daughter within the face with a moist towel in January 2022, when she was 16; Jakob, now 25, and his brothers, Henrik (35) and Filip (32), alleged he had mistreated them since childhood. The youngsters reduce ties with him that 12 months and went public with their accusations.
The Athletic made reference to a press launch by Gjert’s legal professionals, Heidi Reisvang and John Christian Elden, who declare their consumer must be eligible for compensation based mostly on part 444 of the Norwegian Legal Process Act, which covers people who’re acquitted of prison fees or whose fees are dropped. The report quotes Reisvang commenting that the case was “characterised … by a scarcity of objectivity,” and that “the indictment ought to by no means have been introduced.”
Gjert Ingebrigtsen coaches worldwide middle-distance runners (together with Canadian document holder Kieran Lumb, who joined the group in 2025) via the Vikings Athletics membership in southern Norway, although the report says the Norwegian federation doesn’t give him accreditation for main worldwide competitions.
Gjert is quoted as referring to the conviction as “an unlucky incident” and “minor” when in comparison with the prison case introduced in opposition to him. The Athletic posted a prolonged interview with him after the decision in August 2025.
