Mette Graversgaard
 Graversgaard in 2022 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Mette Laugesen Graversgaard |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Born | 5 October 1995 |
| Home town | Aarhus, Denmark |
| Sport | |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Hurdling |
Mette Laugesen Graversgaard (born 5 October 1995)[1] is a Danish athlete who specialises in the 60 metres hurdles and 100 metres hurdles. She has competed for Denmark at multiple major championships, placing fourth in the 60m hurdles at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Career
[edit]She started in athletics in multi-events, but switched to sprint hurdles in 2015.[2] She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2019 World Athletics Championships,[3]
She was selected for the women’s 4 x 100 metres relay team at the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan in 2021, but had to return home from her trip to the Games after suffering a thigh injury in training.[4]
She competed at the 100 metres hurdles at the 2022 World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, Oregon.[1] She finished sixth in the final of the 100 metres hurdles at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany.[5]
She finished fourth in the final of the 60 metres hurdles at the 2023 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, where she ran a Danish national record time of 7.92 seconds.[6] Graversgaard won the Danish Athletic Championships in both the 100 metres hurdles and the 100 metres sprint in 2023. That year, she lowered her national record for the 100m hurdles to 12.83 seconds.[2] She qualified for the semi-finals at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.[7]
She was selected to compete at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, reaching the semi-finals.[8] She competed at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, where she did not reach the semi-finals.[9] She won the final of the 100 metres hurdles at the Danish Athletics Championships in June 2024.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Mette GRAVERSGAARD – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
- ^ a b "Mette Graversgaard has sprinted for 11 years to achieve a two-second improvement". dr.dk. 22 August 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
- ^ "4 x 100 Metres Relay Women - Round 1" (PDF). IAAF (Doha 2019). Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ "Frustrated Danish sprinter returns home from Olympics with injury". Berlingske.dk. 29 July 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 15 August 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
- ^ "European Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 2 March 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
- ^ "Mette Graversgaard løber sig i VM-semifinale i hækkeløb". politiken.dk (in Danish). 22 August 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
- ^ "Women's 60m hurdles Results - World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 3 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ "Danish Championships". World Athletics. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
