Ingebrigtsen Sr hit daughter 'in the face', court told

The sister of the double Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen has told a court that she was struck in the face by their father as a child for forgetting her heart-rate monitor.

- Sean Ingle

The incident is said to have occurred in 2018 or 2019 when Ingrid, who is now 18, was driving to training with her father, Gjert. When she told him, she said there was a lot of screaming and he said she was "incompetent" and "stupid".

"I clearly said: 'Shut up', because it didn't stop," Ingrid told the court in Sandes in Norway. "When I said that, I got a hand in the face. He hit me in the face. It was fast and it was hard. It hurt."

The court was told it was one of seven alleged incidents of physical and verbal abuse to which she was subjected by Gjert, who shot to global prominence after coaching three of his sons to Olympic, world and European glory. Their success was captured in the TV documentary series Team Ingebrigtsen, each episode of which was watched by more than 1 million Norwegians.

However, the third day of the trial of Gjert Ingebrigtsen heard of more harrowing allegations that were never captured by the cameras.

Gjert, who faces six years in prison if convicted of abusive behaviour towards Jakob and Ingrid, denies all allegations of violence.