Background
Wiklund was born in Nälden on 10 March 1988.
Wiklund was born in Nälden on 10 March 1988.
She took up sports as a child, playing ice hockey and association football in addition to competing in athletics. She did not start concentrating on the high jump until she was 14. She was a leading age group jumper, clearing 1.86 m in 2004.
The jump ranked her fourth on the world youth list that year, and second among athletes born in 1988 or later.
In the following years her development stagnated, and she did not improve her personal best again until the 2007 indoor season. She placed fifth at the 2005 World Youth Championships and eighth at the 2006 World Junior Championships.
She had a brief comeback in 2011, winning bronze with a jump of 1.82 m at the Swedish championships. In 2013 Wiklund decided to make a second, more serious comeback.
She resumed high jumping in 2014, now as a student at the University of Central Missouri.
She attempted to qualify for the 2014 European Championships in Zürich, but failed to reach the qualifying standard of 1.90 m. She had a season best of 1.88 m both indoors and outdoors. She unexpectedly cleared 1.97 m at the European Team Championships in Cheboksary, improving her personal best from the MIAA outdoor championships by five centimetres.
The jump moved her to third on the Swedish all-time list (behind Kajsa Bergqvist and Emma Green), and exceeded the qualifying standard for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing.
She debuted in the IAAF Diamond League in July 2015 in Lausanne, jumping 1.94 m and placing third.