Wilma Nielsen

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.

Personal bests 800 metres – 2:00.86 (Rome 2024) 1500 metres – 4:02.05 (Budapest 2025) Mile – 4:25.89 (New York 2025)