Simen player Nilsen

	Simen player Nilsen
nation	Norway
birthday	4th August 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Arendal , Norway
Career
society	Arendal SK
status	active
Medal table
winter Olympics
Individual distance world championships
	Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup	December 1, 2012
World Cup victories	2
	last change: December 6, 2018

Simen player Nilsen (born August 4, 1993 in Arendal ) is a Norwegian speed skater .

Career

Nilsen, who starts for Arendal SK, had his first international success at the 2010 Junior World Championships in Moscow . There he won the gold medal in the team pursuit. In the following years he won bronze over 5000 m at the Junior World Championships in 2011 in Seinäjoki and silver in the team pursuit and in the small quadruple and at the Junior World Championships in Obihiro in 2012 bronze in the small quadruple, silver in the 5000 m and gold in the team pursuit. At the beginning of December 2012 he started the World Cup for the first time in Astana and finished ninth in the B group over 1500 m. The next day he reached his first podium in the World Cup with third place in the team pursuit. In February 2013 he achieved 15th place at the all- around world championship in Hamar and won the bronze medal in the 1500 m and 5000 m and the silver medal in the small four-way competition at the junior world championships in Klobenstein . The following month he was fifth in the team pursuit at the World Individual Distance Championships in Sochi . At his first Olympic participation in February 2014 in Sochi, he came in 36th place over 1500 m, 25th place over 5000 m and fifth place in the team pursuit.

In the following year Nilsen ran at the individual distance world championships in Heerenveen on the 20th place over 5000 m and on the seventh place in the team pursuit. At the individual distance world championships in Kolomna in 2016 , he won the silver medal in the team pursuit together with Håvard Bøkko and Sverre Lunde Pedersen . In March 2016 he finished second in the team pursuit at the World Cup in Heerenveen. In the 2016/17 season he won the team pursuit in Heerenveen and took second place in the team pursuit in Harbin and Stavanger . At the 2017 World Individual Distance Championships in Gangwon , he won the bronze medal in the team pursuit. He also achieved 11th place over 10,000 m there. At the beginning of December 2017, he finished third in the team pursuit at the World Cup in Calgary . He achieved his best individual placement in the World Cup so far in January 2018 in Erfurt with 13th place over 5000 m. At the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in February 2018 , he won the gold medal in the team pursuit. In the run over 5000 m he came in 13th place. In March 2018 he won the team pursuit in Minsk and took 12th place at the all- around world championship in Amsterdam .