Engla Nilsson
{{Short description|Swedish high jumper (born 2005)}}
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Engla Nilsson (born 20 May 2005) is a Swedish high jumper. She became Swedish national indoor champion and was a bronze medalist at the European Indoor Championships in 2025.{{cite web|title= Engla Nilsson|website=World Athletics|accessdate=7 March 2025|url= https://worldathletics.org/athletes/sweden/engla-nilsson-14879318}}
Career
A member of Örgryte IS athletics, she made her debut in a Swedish national vest with a 1.70 metres personal best to win the Finnkampen U18 in Helsinki in September 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.kungalvsposten.se/sport/engla-nilsson-stora-skrallen-pa-finnkampen.0082a405-2a01-4711-a5ee-6d49e0197ffc|website=Kungälvs-Posten|accessdate=7 March 2025|title=Engla Nilsson stora skrällen på Finnkampen|date=5 September 2022}}
She jumped 1.83 metres to finish third at the Swedish Athletics Championships in July 2023.{{cite web|title= SM-brons och nytt personbästa för Engla Nilsson |date=31 July 2023|url=https://www.kungalvsposten.se/sport/sm-brons-och-nytt-personbasta-for-engla-nilsson.056f4a11-0f45-48b4-a29b-956fd52ff5f4|accessdate=7 March 2025| website=Kungälvs-Posten}} She then set a new personal best of 1.86 metres to finish fifth in the high jump at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem. It was the third time in the year she improved her personal best.{{cite web|url= https://www.friidrott.se/tavling-landslag/nyhetsarkiv-tavling-landslag/engla-nilsson-overtygade-i-hojdhoppet-under-u20-em/|publisher=Swedish Athletics Association|accessdate=7 March 2025|title=Engla Nilsson övertygade i höjdhoppet under U20-EM | trans-title= Engla Nilsson convinced in the high jump during the U20 European Championships|date=9 August 2023}}{{cite web|url= https://www.kungalvsposten.se/sport/engla-nilsson-femma-pa-junior-em.33e8288a-72a8-4c86-9b0d-42d2d4487e84|website=Kungälvs-Posten|accessdate=7 March 2025|trans-title= Engla Nilsson fifth at the Junior European Championships | title=Engla Nilsson femma på Junior-EM|date=9 August 2023}} She won the Kungälvs-Posten award for Sports Profile of the Year 2023.{{cite web|url= https://www.kungalvsposten.se/sport/hojdhopparen-engla-nilsson-ar-arets-idrottsprofil-2023.fcfeadae-fbba-421c-a81f-c400b6c32c1c| website=Kungälvs-Posten|accessdate=7 March 2025|trans-title= High jumper Engla Nilsson is Sports Personality of the Year 2023 | title=Höjdhopparen Engla Nilsson är Årets idrottsprofil 2023}}
She won her first national championships in winning the Swedish national indoor title in February 2025, with a personal best height of 1.88 metres.{{cite web|url= https://www.kungalvsposten.se/sport/sm-guld-till-engla-nilsson-forsta-seniortiteln.6bdf003f-caa1-4571-a6ff-4cc702e8a0fb#:~:text=Sport%20H%C3%B6jdhopparen%20Engla%20Nilsson%20fr%C3%A5n,f%C3%B6rsta%20SM%2Dguld%20som%20senior.&text=Engla%20Nilsson%20har%20inte%20varit,rekord%20p%C3%A5%201%2C88%20meter. |website=Kungälvs-Posten|date=23 February 2025|trans-title= Swedish Championship gold for Engla Nilsson – first senior title| title=SM-guld till Engla Nilsson – första seniortiteln |accessdate=7 March 2025}} Making her senior championship debut at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships she set a new personal best of 1.89 metres.{{cite web|url= https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/a/bmJpW3/engla-nilsson-overtraffade-sig-sjalv-i-em-debuten|website=Aftonbladet|accessdate=7 March 2025|date=7 March 2025|trans-title= Engla Nilsson surpassed herself in her European Championship debut | title=Engla Nilsson överträffade sig själv i EM-debuten}} In the final, she cleared 1.92 metres, a personal best by three centimetres, to win the bronze medal in the competition behind Angelina Topic and world
record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cn480j310yvo|website=BBC Sport|accessdate=9 March 2025|date=9 March 2025|title=GB win three silvers on final day of European Indoors}} That month she withdrew from the competition prior to the commencement of the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China.{{cite web|url= https://www.ystadsallehanda.se/2025-03-10/trots-em-succen-engla-nilsson-avstar-inne-vm/|website= ystadsallehanda.se|accessdate=8 April 2025|title= Despite the European Championship success: Engla Nilsson withdraws from the Indoor World Championships|date=March 10, 2025}}
Personal life
She is from Kungälv. Her father was able to watch from the stands when she won the bronze medal at the 2025 European Indoor Championships. Prior to that competition her boyfriend had joked that she should "try not to come last".{{cite web|url=https://swedenherald.com/article/surprising-bronze-of-engla-nilsson|website=Sweden Herald|accessdate=8 April 2025|title= European Championship bronze success after boyfriend's joke: "Crazy"|date=9 March 2025}}
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