Sverri Sandberg Nielsen (born 14 October 1993)[1][2] is a Faroese rower who competes for Danske Studenters Roklub[3][4] and Denmark in the heavyweight single sculls.

Nielsen is the current Danish record holder in the men's indoor rowing, heavy weight, he broke a nine-year old Danish record in January 2015[10] and improved the same record in January 2016 in the time 5.51.6[11] and again in January 2017 in the time 5:49.20,[12] and in February 2017 at the European Indoor Rowing Championship, which he won in the time 5:47.9.

[13] Nielsen competed at the 2015 World Rowing Championships making it to the semi-final; he competed at the 2015 World Rowing Championship under-23 and made it to the final where his final result was number four.

But because or the new rule of diversity, Denmark gained another place for one of their boat for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio; this happened when Belgium won two competition in the men's single and double scullers at the final qualification race, but were only allowed to take one of the two boats to Rio.

Belgium chose to take their single sculler, and therefore Sverri Nielsen could not compete at the Olympics 2016, instead the extra place went to Mads Rasmussen and Rasmus Quist.