Ida Nilsson

Ida Nilsson (born February 8, 1981) is a Swedish long-distance runner who also competes in ski mountaineering.

She finished seventh in the 3000m steeplechase at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, where she set the Swedish national record (9:39.24).

Both her and her sister, Johanna Nilsson, ran for the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks collegiate team and had much success. The pair were both ranked in the top three of a 2014 poll of greatest women's athletes in the Big Sky Conference. Nilsson won four cross country titles in that regional conference.[1][2] Both were inducted into the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks hall of fame.[3]

In 2015 Nilsson won the Swedish mountain marathon AXA Fjällmaraton.

References

  1. ↑ Lobdell, Megan (2014-05-15). #BigSky25 No. 3 Athlete - NAU's Ida Nilsson Big Sky's "25 Greatest Female Athletes". Big Sky Conference. Retrieved on 2016-01-24.
  2. ↑ Lobdell, Megan (2014-05-29). #BigSky25: No. 2 Athlete - Northern Arizona's Johanna Nilsson Big Sky's "25 Greatest Female Athletes". Big Sky Conference. Retrieved on 2016-01-24.
  3. ↑ NAU Athletics Mourns the Loss of an All-Time Great. NAU Lumberjacks. Retrieved on 2016-01-24.


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