Marcus Nilsson (decathlete)

{{Short description|Swedish decathlete (born 1991)}}

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Marcus Nilsson (born 3 May 1991 in Malmö) is a Swedish decathlete. He competed at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, Russia.

Nilsson hails from Kalmar in the flat southern Sweden.{{cite web

|url=https://www.marathon.se/nyheter/ida-sprang-rakt-upp-i-varldstoppen

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509075436/https://www.marathon.se/nyheter/ida-sprang-rakt-upp-i-varldstoppen

|publisher=Marathon.se

|author=Torbjörn Sköldefors

|title=Ida sprang rakt upp i världstoppen

|language=Swedish

|date=7 May 2016

|archivedate=2016-05-09

|accessdate=2016-05-09

|url-status=live

}} He grew up in a sports family where both his father Carl-Gustaf ”Calle” and mother Katarina competed at an elite level. His brother David and two sisters, Ida and Johanna, have belonged to the Swedish national team in athletics. At the 2002 Swedish cross country championships the family walked home with four gold medals, one silver and one bronze.{{cite web

|url=http://www.textograf.com/articles/idrott/loparfamiljennilsson02.pdf

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050205040654/http://textograf.com/articles/idrott/loparfamiljennilsson02.pdf

|publisher=Tidningen Friidrott

|author=Jonas Hedman

|title=Löparfamiljen Nilsson från Högby IF

|language=Swedish

|series=8

|date=December 2002

|archivedate=2005-02-05

|accessdate=2016-05-08

|url-status=live

}}

Competition record

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colspan="6"|Representing {{SWE}}
2009

|European Junior Championships

|Novi Sad, Serbia

|20th

|Decathlon (junior)

|6915 pts

2010

|World Junior Championships

|Moncton, Canada

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Decathlon (junior)

|7751 pts

2011

|European U23 Championships

|Ostrava, Czech Republic

|16th

|Decathlon

|7141 pts

2012

|European Championships

|Helsinki, Finland

|18th

|Decathlon

|7164 pts

2013

|World Championships

|Moscow, Russia

|24th

|Decathlon

|7540 pts

2014

|European Championships

|Zürich, Switzerland

| –

|Decathlon

|DNF

2016

|European Championships

|Amsterdam, Netherlands

|8th

|Decathlon

|7942 pts

2018

|European Championships

|Berlin, Germany

|12th

|Decathlon

|7819 pts

rowspan=2|2022

|World Championships

|Eugene, United States

| –

|Decathlon

|DNF

European Championships

|Munich, Germany

|4th

|Decathlon

|8327 pts

rowspan=2|2023

|European Indoor Championships

|Istanbul, Turkey

|8th

|Heptathlon

|5677 pts

World Championships

|Budapest, Hungary

| —

|Decathlon

|DNF

References

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