Men's Olympic 5000m Odds: Jakob Ingebrigtsen looks tough to beat

Norwegian sensation Jakob Ingebrigtsen is after more glory on the track when he is expected to go off as favourite in the men's 5000m final in Paris.

The two-time 5000m world champion and reigning Olympic 1500m champion is set to line up in Saturday's final after first coming through the heats on Wednesday.

Ingebrigtsen will face some stiff competition for gold, including from Ethiopians Hagos Gebrhiwet and Yomif Kejelcha and Ugandan runner Joshua Cheptegei, the defending Olympic champion.

Olympic Men's 5000m odds

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Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Ingebrigtsen is one of the world's best-known middle and long-distance runners, having won gold in the 1500m in Tokyo before following up with consecutive victories in the 5000m at world level in 2022 and 2023.

Now, in Paris, he's aiming for his first 5000m Olympic gold and the 23-year-old is a short price favourite.

Ingebrigtsen is also a two-time world silver medallist and first shot to fame when aged just 16 in 2017, he became the youngest man in history to run a sub-four minute mile.

Hagos Gebrhiwet

Ethiopian star Gebrhiwet is another contender in the men's 5000m this summer and the 30-year-old will be desperate to get an Olympic gold medal around his neck after winning bronze in this event in Rio in 2016.

Gebrhiwet won the 5000m in the African Games in Accra last year, while he was agonisingly a silver medallist in the 5000m World Championships in Moscow in 2013 before he earned bronze in the race two years later in Beijing.

Gebrhiwet ran 12:36.73 earlier this year to become the second fastest man in history at the 5000m distance.

Joshua Cheptegei

Defending Olympic champion Cheptegei could be in the fight for gold again in the men's 5000m after coming in first in Tokyo three years ago.

The 27-year-old, who is the current world record holder at 5000m and 10,000m, has all the credentials to see off all the rest if he is at the top of his game this weekend.

The Ugandan, who is also a world silver medallist at 10,000m from London in 2017, arguably does favour the longer distance and has already proved himself in Paris, winning gold in the 10,000m last week.

Yomif Kejelcha

Double indoor gold medallist at 3000m, Kejelcha is one of the outsiders in the 5000m in Paris but is another that could do well if others are a bit short of their best on the night.

The 27-year-old Ethiopian finished second behind fellow countryman Gebrhiwet in the 5000m at the Oslo Diamond League meeting earlier this year.

Jacob Kiplimo

Another Ugandan, Kiplimo is the reigning Commonwealth 5000m champion, triumphing in Birmingham in 2022 and is the world record holder for the half marathon, which he set in November 2021 in Lisbon with a time of 57:31.

He is also the 2020 Tokyo Olympic 10,000m bronze medallist and won bronze in the event at the 2022 World Championships.