Personal information | |
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Nationality | Swedish |
Born | 11 July 2000 |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Sprint |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | 60m: 7.22 (Karlstad, 2024) 100m: 11.19 (Athens, 2024) 200m: 23.03 (Karlstad , 2024) |
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 and is the Swedish indoors national record holder over 200 metres.[1]
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]
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]
In Karlstad in February 2024, she set new personal best times over 60m, of 7.22 seconds, and 200 metres, of 23.03 seconds, an indoors national record.[15] In May 2024, she lowered her personal best over 100 metres to 11.19 in Athens.[16]
Henriksson trained with IFK Helsingborg, however due to financial concerns after the covid-19 pandemic, the athletic club had to halt investment in athletes.[17] As a result, Henriksson began supplementing her income by working as a receptionist at a health centre in 2022.[18]