Hanna Abrahamsson

Racers compete in the Montana State Invitational nordic 7.5K event Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, at Crosscut Mountain Sports Center near Bozeman, Mont.
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Position:
Nordic
Height:
5-8
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Eksjo, Sweden
High School:
Gnosjoandans Kunskapscentrum
Prev School:
Swedish National Team

Four-Time All-American (2022 CL, FS, 2023 CL, FS)
Three-Time First-Team All-American (2022 CL, 2023 CL, FS)
Second-Team All-American (2022 FS)
Two-Time NCAA Championship Qualifier (2022, ‘23)
Second-Team Academic All-American (2023 At-Large)
National All-Academic Ski Team (2023)
RMISA MVP (2023 CL)
Two-Time First-Team All-RMISA (2022, ‘23)
CSC Academic All-District (2023 At-Large)
Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2023)
Two-Time RMISA Skier of the Meet (2022 UAF, 2023 CU)
Female Freshamn of the Year Finalist (2022 CUSPYs)
4.0 Club (2023)
Six-Time CU Athlete of the Week (Jan. 9, 2022; Feb. 6, 2022, Jan. 15, 2023, Feb. 5, 2023, Feb. 12, 2023, March 11, 2023)
Two-Time Outstanding Nordic Woman Award (2022, ‘23)
Two-Time Letterwinner (2022, ‘23)

At Colorado: Career—Abrahamsson enters her junior season firmly established as one of the best skiers in the nation. She has competed in 22 races in her first two years, finishing all 22 and all in the top 10 with 18 top five performances including 10 podium appearances and one race win. Already a four-time All-American, two-time All-RMISA and RMISA MVP, she also gets it done in the classroom as an Academic All-American.

2023 (Sophomore)—Abrahamsson followed up an impressive freshman season with a stellar sophomore one, during which she never finished lower than seventh place and picked up two first-team All-America honors while also being an Academic All-American. She finished all 11 races with nine of the 11 in the top five including seven podium appearances and one win. She was named the RMISA MVP for women’s classic after hitting the podium in all six races including four runner-up performances and one win. She was named first-team Alll-RMISA while picking up RMISA Skier of the Meet honors for the CU Invitational and four CU Athlete of the Week honors. She repeated as the teams Outstanding Nordic Woman Award winner, as well. In classic races, she finished 2-1-3-2-3-2 on the season with a perfect podium season of six and laos had one runner-up finish in a 5K freestyle race at the CU Invitational. At the NCAA Champsionships, she finished fifth in the 5K freestyle race on the second day, helping CU keep the lead, and her second-place finish in the 20K classic race helped keep the Buffs in second place as a team and push for the National Championship. Equally as impressive in the classroom, she joined the CU 4.0 Club and was named second-team Academic All-American by College Sports Communciators, especially impressive as she was on the second team and essentially in the top 20 of 12 of the NCAA’s most high achieving sports that are combined on the At-Large team. She was named to the National Collegaite All-Academic Ski Team, the Pac-12 Acadmic Honor Roll and the CSC Academic All-Distrct Team, as well.

2022 (Freshman)—Abrahamsson established herself as one of the top Nordic skiers in the nation as a freshman. She finished all 11 races she took part in, never finishing lower than seventh place, with nine top five finishes and three podium appearances. She earned two All-America honors, including a first-team nod in the freestyle and second-team honors in the classical discipline. SHe was named first-team All-RMISA, was the RMISA Skier of the Meet for the Alaska Anchorage Invitational and named CU Athlete of the Week twice. She was given the team’s Outstanding Nordic Woman Award and was a finalist for the Female Freshman of the Year among all CU student-athletes. She opened her career at the U.S. National Championships and among college skiers finished second in the 10K classical at Soldier Hollow. She then took fifth in the classic sprints at the same meet, which was an extra qualifier for the RMISA. At the Montana State Invitational a week later, she took fourth in the freestyle and fifth in the classic races. She was named the Skier of the Meet in Alaksa after finishing fourth in the classic race and third in the freetysle race, and then she took second in the freestyle race as part of the RMISA Invitational, also in Fairbanks, Alaska. At the RMISA Championships, she finished fourth in the classic race and sixth in the freestyle race. At the NCAA Championships, she finished fifth in the freestyle to earn first-team All-America honors, and seventh in the classical race to pick up second-team honors.

Prior To CU—She skied for Eksjo Sok from 2010-20 and more recently for Ulricehamns IF in 2021 while also earning a spot on the Swedish National Team. She has 140 FIS starts in both cross country skiing and roller skiing, participating on the World Cup level in roller skiing and as high as the Junior World Championships and U23 World Championships in cross country skiing. She was a bronze medalist at the U23 World Championships in the 4x5k relay as the lead leg in Voukatti, Finland, in 2021. She also finished 19th there in the 10K freestyle race. She competed in the World Junior Championships in both Lahti, Finland, in 2019 and Oberwiesenthal, Germany, in 2020. She has finished in the top 10 128 times in her 140 races with 71 top 10 performances and 28 podiums, including five wins, nine runner-up and 14 third place finishes. Her wins came in 2017 at Oestersund, Sweden, in a 10K classic race, followed by a 5K classic race the following season at the same location. In 2019 she won three races, a 7K pursuit race at Torsby, Sweden, a 32K classic race at Trollhaettan, Sweden and in a 1.2K freestyle sprint race at Idre, Sweden.

High School—She graduated from Gnosjoandans Kunkskapscentrum in Gnosjo, Sweden, in 2020.

In the Classroom—She is majoring in Engineering Physics at Colorado. She won two awards in her high school, one for being the best student in science and another for athletic achievement. She is interested in a career in engineering within an environmental field.

Personal—Hanna Abrahamsson was born July 27, 2000, in Eksjo, Sweden. Her parents are Katarina and Anders Arahamsson. She has two younger siblings, a brother Nils and sister Selma. Her hobbies include being in nature, training, playing board games and being with friends. She has served as a leader in her training groups and also volunteered multiple times through her church. She also competed in gymnastics in her youth for eight years. She plays the violin and enjoys partaking in extreme challenges.

Why Colorado?—”The high altitude, the beautiful surroundings and the variation in climate from the city to the mountains.”