Women's Four
Frida Sanggaard Nielsen
Biography
Frida Sanggaard Nielsen is a Danish rower who took bronze in the women's single sculls at the 2025 World Rowing Championships in Shanghai. In the same season she won bronze in the single sculls at the 2025 European Rowing Championships in Plovdiv and finished third in the single sculls at the 2025 World Rowing Cup in Lucerne.
Born on 1 December 1998 in Copenhagen, Nielsen represented Denmark earlier in sweep boats. She won bronze in the women's four at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim and competed in the women's four at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games, placing eighth on both occasions.
As a junior, Nielsen rowed for Denmark in the pair, taking silver at both the 2016 Junior World Championships and the 2016 Junior European Championships. Her 2025 results in the women's single sculls marked her breakthrough as a sculler at senior level, with European, World Cup and World Championship medals in a single year.