Wilma Nielsen
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| Born | 2 June 2001 Gothenburg, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 800 metres, 1500 metres | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Bradley Braves, Oregon Ducks | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Wilma Nielsen (born 2 June 2001) is a Swedish middle-distance runner.[1] She won a bronze medal at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in the 800 metres and currently runs collegiately for the Oregon Ducks.[2] She previously ran for Bradley University and the University of Washington.[3][4]
Career
Nielsen has won three national outdoor titles in the 800 meters, at the 2022, 2024 and 2025 Swedish Championships respectively.[5][6][7] She also won a national indoor title in the same event in 2023.[8]
She competed for Sweden at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024, qualifying for the semi-finals of the women's 800 metres.[9]
In March 2025, she competed in the 800 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn.[10] Later that month, she held off the fast finishing British runner Mena Scatchard to win the mile run at the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships in Virginia Beach on 15 March, as the Oregon Ducks won the women's team title.[11][12] She was selected to compete for Sweden at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, where she competed in her sixth race in fifteen days on three different continents on 21 March 2025.[13][14]
In September 2025, she competed over 1500 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, without advancing to the semi-finals.[15]
On 1 February 2026, Nielsen finished 8th in the Wanamaker Mile at the 2026 Millrose Games in New York, with her time of 4:23.56 setting a national record.[16]
NCAA
Wilma Nielsen is an NCAA Champion, 5-time All-American, 3-time Missouri Valley Conference Champion, 8-time MVC honoree, & 2-time Big Ten Conference Champion.[17]
| representing Oregon Ducks | |||||
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| 2025 | 2025 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships | Mile | 4:32.40 | 1st | |
| Distance Medley Relay | 10:45.99 | 2nd | |||
| Big Ten Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships | Mile | 4:38.77 | 1st | ||
| Distance Medley Relay | 10:56.97 | 1st | |||
| 2024 | 2024 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships | 6 km | 20:43.0 | 127th | |
| Big Ten Conference Cross Country Championships | 19:50.8 | 21st | |||
| representing Washington Huskies | |||||
| 2024 | 2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships | 800 m | DNS | 24th | |
| Pac-12 Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships | 800 m | 2:03.53 | 4th | ||
| 2024 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships | 800 m | 2:02.33 | 6th | ||
| representing Bradley Braves | |||||
| 2023 | Missouri Valley Conference Cross Country Championships | 6 km | 21:00.5 | 6th | |
| 2023 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships | 800 m | 2:03.34 | 6th | ||
| Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships | 800 m | 2:09.66 | 1st | ||
| 2022 | 2022 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships | 800 m | 2:06.08 | 35th | |
| Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships | 800 m | 2:06.82 | 5th | ||
| 1500 m | 4:23.60 | 1st | |||
| 2022 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships | 800 m | 2:03.34 | 6th | ||
| Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships | 800 m | 2:09.66 | 1st | ||
| 2021 | Missouri Valley Conference Cross Country Championships | 6 km | 21:41.3 | 12th | |
| 2021 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships | 800 m | 2:07.78 | 22nd | ||
| Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships | 800 m | 2:07.51 | 3rd | ||
| 4 × 400 m relay | 3:46.17 | 4th | |||
| 2020 Missouri Valley Conference Cross Country Championships | 4.88 km | 18:08.6 | 10th | ||
| Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships | 800 m | 2:09.32 | 2nd | ||
| Mile | 4:47.41 | 2nd | |||
Personal bests
- 800 metres – 2:00.86 (Rome 2024)
- 1500 metres – 4:02.05 (Budapest 2025)
- Mile – 4:25.89i (New York 2025)
References
- ^ "Succé för Wilma Nielsen – brons på 800 meter - Friidrottsförbundet". friidrott.se. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "U23-EM: Sensationellt brons av Wilma Nielsen – tre blågula medaljer – Friidrottaren". Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "Wilma Nielsen Trains Her Body and Mind to Race into Bradley History". bradley.edu. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
- ^ "Wilma Nielsen". gohuskies.com.
- ^ Grip, Mikael (7 August 2022). ""Kul att visa att här kommer jag" – Wilma Nielsen efter SM-guldet på 800 meter". Spring (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 1 September 2025. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
- ^ "Asgede skrällsegrare på 800 m – Nielsen "stark hela vägen"" (in Swedish). Swedish Athletics Association. 30 June 2024. Archived from the original on 1 September 2025. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
- ^ "Kramer putsade SM-rekordet – Nielsen försvarade titeln" (in Swedish). Swedish Athletics Association. 3 August 2025. Archived from the original on 1 September 2025. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
- ^ "ISM-guld på 800 meter för Andreas Kramer och Wilma Nielsen" (in Swedish). Swedish Athletics Association. 18 February 2023. Archived from the original on 1 September 2025. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
- ^ "Women 800m Results - European Athletics Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 12 June 2024. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
- ^ "Klaver thrills Dutch crowd with first individual 400m gold at Apeldoorn 2025". Europesn Athletics. 8 March 2025. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
- ^ Hansen, Chris (15 March 2025). "How the Oregon women won their 8th national title at NCAA Indoor Track & Field meet". Register Guard. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
- ^ "Oregon Wins Women's Title At 2025 NCAA Indoor Track And Field Championships". Flotrack. 15 March 2025. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
- ^ "This is the Swedish athletics team for the indoor World Championship". Sweden Herald. 13 March 2025. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
- ^ "2025 World Indoors Day 1 AM: Nia Akins & Josh Hoey Look Great in a Good Session for Americans". Lets Run. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 18 Sep 2025. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
- ^ "NYRR Women's Wanamaker Mile". results.millrosegames.org. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
- ^ Wilma Nielsen Results TFRRS