Making start line is ‘redemption’ for Wightman

After a number of years of injury-ravaged career, Jake Wightman claims that making it to the start line at this month’s World Championships in Japan will feel like “redemption.”

When he competes in the 1500-meter race in Tokyo, the 31-year-old Scot will have his first major championship since 2022.

Wightman won the world 1500m title in Eugene three years ago, but injury prevented him from competing in the same year’s competition. He was also forced to miss the Olympics days before the 800m race in Paris last summer.

“I don’t think I’m a worse athlete or anything like that; I think I have more to prove than I have,” he continued despite suffering a number of setbacks over the past few years.

I’m making an effort to avoid putting any pressure on it. If I enter it without expecting, I believe I will do my best.

Wightman’s injury issues mean he intends to enjoy every moment of his major Japanese comeback.

He said, “I probably didn’t realize how low some of those points were until I started racing again this year.

When I first hurt before Paris, I kind of brushed it under the rug and took a vacation, but I only felt much better when I returned to racing this summer because the process involved being involved.

Wightman refutes the claim that he is one of the most unfortunate athletes in the area despite everything.

You would assume that I am the most unlucky athlete in the world if you only knew about my career’s 2022 completion, but I have had many opportunities where things have gone my way and many people would have admired the experiences I have had, he continued.

It’s not as though my career is defined by low points, then. It has some amazing high points that stand in for me in contrast to these low ones.