Wilma Nielsen (born 2 June 2001) is a Swedish middle-distance runner. She won a bronze medal at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in the 800 metres and currently runs collegiately for the Oregon Ducks. She previously ran for Bradley University and the University of Washington.
Career Nielsen has won three national outdoor titles in the 800 meters, at the 2022, 2024 and 2025 Swedish Championships respectively. She also won a national indoor title in the same event in 2023.
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.
In March 2025, she competed in the 800 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn. 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. 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.
In September 2025, she competed over 1500 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, without advancing to the semi-finals.
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.
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.Wilma Nielsen Results TFRRS representing Oregon Ducks2025 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 1st2024 2024 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships 6 km 20:43.0 127th Big Ten Conference Cross Country Championships 19:50.8 21strepresenting Washington Huskies2024 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 4th2024 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships 800 m 2:02.33 6threpresenting Bradley Braves2023 Missouri Valley Conference Cross Country Championships 6 km 21:00.5 6th2023 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 1st2022 2022 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships 800 m 2:06.08 35thMissouri Valley Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships 800 m 2:06.82 5th 1500 m 4:23.60 1st2022 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 1st2021 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 22ndMissouri Valley Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships 800 m 2:07.51 3rd relay 3:46.17 4th 2020 Missouri Valley Conference Cross Country Championships 4.88 km 18:08.6 10thMissouri 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 – 4:25.89 (New York 2025)
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