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SAINT-DENIS, France — Jakob Ingebrigtsen has won the men's 5,000 meters at the Olympics by going to the front midway through the last lap and then pulling away down the stretch. This gold medal on Saturday made up for his surprising fourth-place finish in the 1,500 at the Paris Games. Ingebrigtsen is a 23-year-old from Norway. He completed the 12 1/2 laps around the Stade de France's purple track in a relatively slow 13 minutes, 13.66 seconds — 1.38 seconds faster than silver medalist Ronald Kwemoi of Kenya. Grant Fisher of the U.S. was third in 13:15.13. That gives him his second bronze of the 2024 Olympics to go with the one he picked up in the 10,000 on Aug. 2.
