1. Christopher Nilsen was born on January 13,1998 and is an American athlete specialising in pole vault and high jump.
11 Facts About Chris Nilsen
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Chris Nilsen is a six-time NCAA Division I First Team All-American, and a three-time NCAA Track and field Pole vault champion.
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Chris Nilsen honored as 2017 Summit League Indoor Field Athlete of the Year and 2017 Summit League Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year.
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Chris Nilsen honored on The Bowerman Watch List throughout the 2017 outdoor season.
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Chris Nilsen placed second at 2019 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships and won the pole vault title in an NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships meet record at 2019 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
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Chris Nilsen won Summit League student-athlete of the week honors for the 9th time in 2019.
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Chris Nilsen began competing for South Dakota Coyotes and in Vermillion, South Dakota under coach Derek Miles in Fall 2016.
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Chris Nilsen began his professional career as a Nike sponsored athlete in July, 2020.
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Chris Nilsen is currently working with his agent Karen Locke.
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Chris Nilsen was full of praise for the winner, Armand Duplantis.
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Chris Nilsen compared the competition against Duplantis that evening as being a regular footballer "trying to emulate Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo" and that his superiority over the world's best pole vaulters was "impressive and ridiculous".