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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 2 June 2001 Gothenburg, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| 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]
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]
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. [16]
| 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 | |||
