Julia Henriksson

Julia Henriksson (born 11 July 2000) is a Swedish athlete who competes as a sprinter. She has won Swedish national champion titles at 60m, 100m and 200m.[1]

Julia Henriksson
Personal information
NationalitySwedish
Born (2000-07-11) 11 July 2000
Sport
SportAthletics
Event(s)Sprint
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)60m: 7.30 (Malmö, 2023)
100m: 11.37 (Mölndal, 2021)
200m: 23.15 (Helsinki, 2022)

Early life

From Bjuv,[2] Henriksson was a promising junior athlete but stopped athletics completely in high school, and didn’t race at all in 2016 and 2017. She started training again after her hiatus and started training full-time in 2019.[3] She again had to pause her training to recover from stress fractures to her foot, in 2020.[4]

Career

Competing in Mölndal in August 2021, Henriksson ran 100m in 11.37s which moved her up to fifth all-time by Swedish women and made her the fastest Swedish woman since 2014.[5] Henriksson won the Swedish national 100m title in Norrköping in August 2022, with a time of 11.55 seconds.[6]

After making her debut at a major championships by competing at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, albeit without qualifying from her heat, Henriksson set a new personal best 200m time of 23.15 in Helsinki.[7][8]

In January 2023, at the Quality Hotel Games in Växjö, she achieved an indoor 200m time of 23.32s, a time that placed her second on Sweden's all-time list.[9] The following month, she lowered her personal best time indoors over 200m again, to 23.26, before claiming national championship title victories over 60m and 200m in Malmö.[10] This included a new personal best time of 7.30s for the 60m.[11]

Henriksson qualified for the semi-finals in the 60m at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul in March 2023.[12]

Henriksson competed in the 200m at the Diamond League event in Stockholm in July 2023, finishing seventh.[13] She competed in the 200 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023.[14]

Personal life

Henriksson trained with IFK Helsingborg, however due to financial concerns after the covid-19 pandemic, the athletic club had to halt investment in athletes.[15] As a result, Henriksson began supplementing her income by working as a receptionist at a health centre in 2022.[16]

References
  1. "Julia Henriksson". World Athletics. 5 July 2023.
  2. "The sprinter from Bjuv has the national team in his sights". hd.se. 23 January 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  3. "Julia Henriksson Swedish sprint queen in Helsinki". aftonbladet.se. 5 September 2022.
  4. "Julia Henriksson: "I would go back and take that gold"". hd.se. 18 December 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  5. "Fastest Swedish 100 m time in eight years". friidrottaren.com. 7 August 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  6. "Julia Henriksson and Henrik Larsson are the fastest in Sweden". svt.se. 5 August 2022.
  7. "Sweden triumph in their traditional head-to-head duel with neighbours Finland". European.Athletics. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  8. Åkesson, Richard (17 October 2022). "THE SPRINTER QUEEN CHOOSES MAI - "IT CAN GIVE ME A LOT"". mai.se. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  9. Karlsson, Mathias (20 January 2023). "Great result by Julia Henriksson – Sweden's second all time". Friidrott.se. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  10. Åkesson, Richard (12 February 2023). "JULIA DOUBLE WINNER IN THE NORDENKAMPEN - "FEELS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC"". mai.se. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  11. Lōõv, Filip (18 February 2023). "7.30 i försöken för Julia – guld i finalen". friidrott.se. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  12. Karlsson, Mathias (3 March 2023). "Full delivery of Hermansson, Åskag, Meijer and Henriksson". Friidrott. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  13. "Stockholm Diamond League - Bauhaus Galan 2023 - women's 200m results". Watch Athletics. 2 July 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  14. "Women's 200m Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 23 August 2023.
  15. "IFK Helsingborg is forced to tighten finances - sprint profiles change clubs". hd.se. 16 October 2022.
  16. "Sprinter promise Julia Henriksson: "Cool to run fast"". hd.se. 23 July 2022.
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