Engla Nilsson

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Engla Nilsson
Personal information
NationalitySwedish
Born (2005-05-20) 20 May 2005 (age 20)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event High jump
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
European Indoor Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2025 Apeldoorn High jump
European U23 Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Bergen High jump

Engla Nilsson (born 20 May 2005) is a Swedish high jumper. She became Swedish national indoor champion and was a bronze medalist at the European Indoor Championships in 2025. [1]

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Career

A member of Örgryte IS athletics, she made her debut in a Swedish national vest with a 1.70 metres personal best to win the Finnkampen U18 in Helsinki in September 2022. [2]

She jumped 1.83 metres to finish third at the Swedish Athletics Championships in July 2023. [3] She then set a new personal best of 1.86 metres to finish fifth in the high jump at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem. It was the third time in the year she improved her personal best. [4] [5] She won the Kungälvs-Posten award for Sports Profile of the Year 2023. [6]

She won her first national championships in winning the Swedish national indoor title in February 2025, with a personal best height of 1.88 metres. [7] Making her senior championship debut at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships she set a new personal best of 1.89 metres. [8] In the final, she cleared 1.92 metres, a personal best by three centimetres, to win the bronze medal in the competition behind Angelina Topic and world record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh. [9] That month she withdrew from the competition prior to the commencement of the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China. [10]

She finished joint-fourth with a height of 1.91 metres in Stockholm at the 2025 BAUHAUS-galan event, part of the 2025 Diamond League in June 2025. [11] She cleared 1.93 metres to win the silver medal behind Angelina Topić at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway on 19 July 2025. [12]

Personal life

She is from Kungälv. Her father was able to watch from the stands when she won the bronze medal at the 2025 European Indoor Championships. Prior to that competition her boyfriend had joked that she should "try not to come last". [13]

References

  1. "Engla Nilsson". World Athletics. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  2. "Engla Nilsson stora skrällen på Finnkampen". Kungälvs-Posten. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  3. "SM-brons och nytt personbästa för Engla Nilsson". Kungälvs-Posten. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  4. "Engla Nilsson övertygade i höjdhoppet under U20-EM" [Engla Nilsson convinced in the high jump during the U20 European Championships]. Swedish Athletics Association. 9 August 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  5. "Engla Nilsson femma på Junior-EM" [Engla Nilsson fifth at the Junior European Championships]. Kungälvs-Posten. 9 August 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  6. "Höjdhopparen Engla Nilsson är Årets idrottsprofil 2023" [High jumper Engla Nilsson is Sports Personality of the Year 2023]. Kungälvs-Posten. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  7. "SM-guld till Engla Nilsson – första seniortiteln" [Swedish Championship gold for Engla Nilsson – first senior title]. Kungälvs-Posten. 23 February 2025. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  8. "Engla Nilsson överträffade sig själv i EM-debuten" [Engla Nilsson surpassed herself in her European Championship debut]. Aftonbladet. 7 March 2025. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  9. "GB win three silvers on final day of European Indoors". BBC Sport. 9 March 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  10. "Despite the European Championship success: Engla Nilsson withdraws from the Indoor World Championships". ystadsallehanda.se. 10 March 2025. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  11. "Results - Stockholm Diamond League Bauhaus Galan 2025". Watch Athletics. 15 June 2025. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  12. Broadbent, Chris (19 July 2025). "Double gold for Serbia! Vilagoš and Topić triumph at Bergen 2025". European Athletics. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
  13. "European Championship bronze success after boyfriend's joke: "Crazy"". Sweden Herald. 9 March 2025. Retrieved 8 April 2025.