Nils Henriksson earned his first Finnish national cycling podium in 1949, when he was runner-up in the road race. Although he was outside the top three the following year, he still attended the World Championships, as he would do for the next three years and in 1956. He was second again in the national road race in 1951, before finally winning the event in 1952, when he also took silver in the team road race, the time trial, and the pursuit. He was also selected to represent his country at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, where he was eliminated in the qualifying round of the team pursuit, 4,000 metres alongside Paul Nyman, Urho Sirén, and Aimo Jokinen. Henriksson was also a substitute for the road race, but did not start. His last national podium finish in the road race was third in 1954. By career he was a firefighter, but he also worked as a coach.
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