Nora Lindahl
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| Nationality | Swedish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 September 2004 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 100m: 11.69 (Diekirch, 2023) 200m: 22.89 (Rome, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Nora Lindahl (born 10 September 2004) is a Swedish sprinter.
Career[edit]
In July 2023, she was runner-up to Julia Henriksson at the Swedish Athletics Championships 200m race in Söderhamn.[1] She won 200 metres at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem in a personal best 23.26 seconds.[2][3]
In January 2024, she ran 23.71 for the 200 meters last weekend to set a new indoors personal best and move into tenth place on the Swedish all-time list.[4] The following month she lowered her 200m best to 23.46 running indoors in Metz.[5] That month, she was runner-up to Julia Henriksson at the Swedish Athletics Indoor Championships 200m race in Karlstad.[6]
In May 2024 she lowered her personal best over 200 metres to 23.13 whilst racing in Kalamata, Greece, to move to fifth place in the Swedish all-time list.[7]
She ran a personal best 22.97 at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome over 200 metres to qualify for the semi-finals.[8]
Personal life[edit]
She has dual Swedish and Finnish nationality. Her father Markus Lindahl was a Finnish sprinter. She is coached by Swedish mother Frida Lindahl. Her aunt Åsa Hedström competed as a middle-distance runner.[9][10][11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Swedish Championships". World Athletics. 16 February 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
- ^ "The Swedish EC success in athletics - two golds in a quarter of an hour: "Absolutely unimaginable"". dn.se. 9 August 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ "Snesatuinal JEM gold for Nora Lindahl". aftonbladet. 9 August 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ "Nora pushed in the first race of the year - "There are absolutely more"". Friidrott.se. 8 January 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ "Faster and faster for Nora – new fourth all-time". Friidrott. 3 February 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ "Swedish Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 16 February 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ "Nora Lindahl struck with 23.13 in the premiere – fifth all-time". Friidrott.se. 12 May 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ "HIFK's Swedish running promise Nora Lindahl was surprised by her father just before the start - found out that she was the fastest in Finland: "A little surprising"". Svenska.yle. 18 June 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ "Nora Lindahl's main concern before the Swedish competition: Should I compete for Finland or Sweden? "It was very tough to choose a home country"". Svenska.yle. 5 September 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ Landén, Petter (2 September 2023). "Nora Lindahl valde bort Finland för Sverige". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 10 June 2024.
