Ida Nilsson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ida Nilsson
Occupation	Athletics Competitor
Date Of Birth	Feb 8, 1981(1981-02-08)
Age	43
Country	Sweden
Horoscope	Aquarius

Ida Nilsson Biography

Ida Nilsson is one of the most popular and richest Athletics Competitor who was born on February 8, 1981 in Sweden. Ida Nilsson (born February 8 1981) is an Swedish long-distance athlete who also participates at ski mountaineering. Between 2003 and 2006, she took home 10 gold medals at Swedish competitions for track and field and cross-country running, as well as two NCAA gold medals. After a long absence from the sport, Nilsson was the winner of the Swedish Ski Mountaineering championship in 2016 , and just a few months later took home the highly coveted Transvulcania ultramarathon.

After years of severe injuries, Nilsson had the chance to run in 2013. Nilsson: “Now even my body feels better than 10-15 years ago. Now I feel like young again.” In 2015, Nilsson was the winner of her first Swedish Mountain Marathon Fjallmaraton. The following year she made her first ultramarathon she finished second in the 90-kilometer Ultravasan within Sweden. In the beginning of 2016, she was crowned skiing mountaineering Swedish champion at the Keb Classic (with Jenny Raghall) and was also the winner of the Transvulcania mountain ultramarathon in the Canary Islands.

During the winter 2015 – 2016 Nilsson lived in Chamonix, France, and trained ski mountaineering with Emelie Forsberg. According to Nilsson it was Forsberg who inspired her to test more ultratrail. In running events Nilsson competes for Högby IF in Sweden, Måndalen IL in Norway and Salomon Running internationally. In ski mountaineering her club affiliation is Fjällframfart in Swedish events.

Nilsson, who during her track & field career seldom ran as far as 10 km (6.2 mi), now competed in a number of longer races. In 2016 and again in 2017 she became Swedish road running champion in the masters athletics class for women 35 years. In the summer of 2016 Nilsson won the Marathon du Mont Blanc in Chamonix, France, proving that the unexpected Transvulcania win was not a fluke and planting Nilsson firmly in the world elite.

After leaving the college in Arizona Nilsson was afflicted with a string of injuries which included an injury to her hip joint the year 2009. The hip injury didn’t heal till the end of summer and Nilsson quit her track and field program. Then she essentially stopped running for the next five years.

Ida Nilsson Net Worth

Ida Nilsson is one of the richest Athletics Competitor from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ida Nilsson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Between 2001 and 2005 Nilsson was a student at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, USA. She and her sister Johanna Nilsson, ran for the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks collegiate team and achieved great success. Nilsson was the winner of the 2004 NCAA outdoor championships at the college level in 3000 m steeplechase , and the the indoor championships of 2005 in 5000 meters. The sisters were both among the top three in the 2014 list of the top female athletes in the Big Sky Conference. Nilsson was the winner of four cross country championships in the conference’s regional competition. Both were admitted into the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks hall of fame.

Nilsson originates from Kalmar in southern Sweden. She was born into a family of athletes where her father, Carl-Gustaf “Calle” and mother Katarina played at the highest level. There are two siblings, Marcus David and Marcus David, and a sibling, Johanna, have belonged to the Swedish national team in athletics. The 2002 Swedish cross-country championships, the family returned back to their home winning four golds and including one gold and one silver.

Nilsson has trained as a cook, a wilderness and adventure guide and as masseur. For a living she has run a small company registered in 2015 as a sole proprietorship called Running soul – Ida Nilsson, that according to the Facebook site with the same name offered “massage, sports massage, yoga classes, workshops and training camps for runners”. As of 2018 Nilsson lives in Måndalen in the Rauma municipality in the Norwegian county Møre og Romsdal, and makes a living from skyrunning and ski mountaineering. In 2018 Nilsson together with fellow athletes Emelie Forsberg and Mimmi Kotka started Moonvalley, an on-line shop dedicated to organic energy bars and sportsdrinks.

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Facts & Trivia

Ida Ranked on the list of most popular Athletics Competitor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Ida Nilsson celebrates birthday on February 8 of every year.