Wilma Nielsen


Wilma Nielsen is a Swedish middle-distance runner. She won a bronze medal at the 2021 [European Athletics U23 Championships] in the 2021 [European Athletics U23 Championships – Women's 800 metres|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 Swedish [Indoor Athletics Championships|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 Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships|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 Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres|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.

Personal bests