In August 2022, she revealed she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis nine years earlier.[2]
Early life
Nielsen grew up in Leytonstone, East London with her twin sister Laviai.[3] Her mother is Egyptian-Sudanese and her father is Danish.[4] In 2017, she graduated from Queen Mary University of London with a degree in chemistry.[citation needed]
After becoming the British 400 metres hurdles champion at the 2024 British Athletics Championships, Nielsen was subsequently named in the Great Britain team for the 2024 Summer Olympics[8] where she went out in the semi-finals after hitting a hurdle and falling to the track. Recovering from that setback, Nielsen ran for Great Britain in the heat of the women's 4×400 metre relay, qualifying for the final in second place. Although, like her three fellow heat runners, she did not run the final, the third place finish for the Great Britain team in that final confirmed that Nielsen had won her first Olympic medal, a bronze.[9][10][11]
Nielsen is a yoga teacher, having undertaken her teaching training in Rishikesh in the summer of 2019. She is now one of the yoga instructors on the fitness app Fiit.[19]
In August 2022, Nielsen revealed she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis,[2] at the age of 17. She chose to keep her diagnosis private for nine years, but following a relapse two days prior to her World Athletics Championships heats in Oregon she decided to go public with her story.[20]
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