Mette Pedersen stands, bent over a barbell with two weight plates at each end. Her gaze is focused and determined. She looks down at her hands firmly planted on either side of the bar and stands, a few seconds, completely motionless.<\/p>\n
Then she tilts her foot slightly, adjusts her grip and raises the bar above her head. The arms shake precariously when she straightens up, but a wry, triumphant, smile comes over her lips, when she stands \u2013 with 82 kg over her head and arms extended.<\/p>\n
In social terms, I’ve definitely lost something on my study programme due to my sport<\/p>\n
Mette Pedersen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
As soon as she lets go of the weight, which bangs down to the floor, she claps her hands, and a cloud of chalk goes up as she walks out of the picture with her arms raised in triumph.<\/p>\n
Mette Fasmilla Pedersen is a sports science student with a subsidiary subject in Danish, and an Olympic weightlifter. In order to explain what a weightlifting competition is actually about, she has sent two videos. One is in the discipline ‘snatch’, the other is in the discipline ‘clean and jerk’. These are the two disciplines that Mette Pedersen travels the world competing in. The scene described above is from the video on the snatch \u2013 a discipline where Mette Pedersen can lift 83 kg. In the video with a clean and jerk lift, she’s standing with
98 kilos over her head<\/secret><\/p>\n Her career as a weightlifter began in upper secondary school, where Mette Pedersen after many years as an elite swimmer, changed her focus and started to lift heavy weights, instead of swimming fast. Two weekly training session became more, and \u201csuddenly\u201d \u2013 the year after \u2013she got to the Danish championships. Since then it has turned into many contests, competitions and championships, and today Mette Pedersen both has a place on the national team and several Danish records under her belt.<\/p>\n
Heavy lifting and heavy textbooks<\/h2>\n
But it is not always easy to balance a life as a full-time student with the quest to become one of the world’s strongest women. Mette Pedersen has to take care of six weight training sessions a week, a student job in the Fitness DK health club and a full-time degree programme. This means that she has to say no to many social events, and that she often has every minute of the day scheduled before it has even begun.
\n
\n“I don\u2019t hang around after the lecture. Because if I do, my schedule falls apart. In social terms, I’ve definitely lost something on my study programme due to my sport. But my fellow students have always accepted my choice. They follow me my competition life, and I am always invited \u2013 despite the fact that I often have to say no,” she says.<\/p>\nAcademically, Mette Pedersen’s dedication to weight lifting has also left its mark. In order to spread out the study programme\u2019s workload and to balance her academics and her sports, she has had to postpone several subjects.<\/p>\n
“I need one single subject on my bachelor, which I am taking this spring. And then I am finished,” she says and continues:<\/p>\n
I was close to losing my place on the national team. “It was really hard because I knew that I could do a lot more than what I showed in this period<\/p>\n
Mette Pedersen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
“But in the end the study programme is the most important.”<\/p>\n
Mette Pedersen, however, is happy that she has not yet been in a situation where it has been necessary to choose between lifting and reading. Things were close, during the first years of her study programme:<\/p>\n
“The many practical subjects on the study programme meant that I was unable to work out as much as I used to. I was constantly in a state of overtraining \u2013 but without actually training a lot of weights. My lack of sporting progress also meant that I was close to losing my place on the national team. “It was really hard because I knew that I could do a lot more than what I showed in this period.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today, more than two years later, Mette Pedersen is still hard at it. 2018 has been her best sporting year ever, and she is at the same time putting the finishing touches on her bachelor’s project, which is to be submitted in January. From a sporting perspective, 2018 gave her nine Danish records, a title as Danish champion, and trips to the Nordic Championships, the World University Games and the World Championships.<\/p>\n
100 kg over her head<\/h2>\n
In fact, it is only a few weeks ago that Mette Pedersen came home from the World Championships, which were held this year in Turkmenistan. Since the start of the semester, she has had more than a full month of travelling.<\/p>\n
“Fortunately, my bachelor\u2019s buddy is really understanding, so it has not actually been a problem to get things to work,” she says.<\/p>\n
However, there is no indication that the travelling activity will stop on the other side of the new year and let Mette Pedersen complete her bachelor\u2019s degree in peace. There is both the Danish Championships in March and a European Championships in April. The European Championships are a week after Mette Pedersen’s last exam.<\/p>\n
“I already know now that it will be an extraordinary period of high pressure. But with some good planning, I can take care of both things. I hope I can celebrate my bachelor’s degree with the weightlifting national team in Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n
And it is not enough for Mette Pedersen to just perform reasonably at the European Championships. She has been hoping to beat her own record in clean and jerk by 2 kg \u2013 and thereby round the magic 100 kilos.<\/p>\n
“Yes, it would be great to be able to celebrate my bachelor\u2019s degree with a 100 kg clean and jerk lift.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today, there are only five other Danish women in Mette Pedersen’s class that can lift 100 kg or more in the snatch discipline.
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"24-year-old Mette is a sports science student, has a supplementary subject in Danish, and a student job in the health club Fitness DK. And she is an Olympic weightlifter on the Danish national team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":78394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1568,1025,1582],"class_list":["post-79059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","tag-institut-for-idraet-en","tag-sport-en","tag-universitetssport-en","expression-portrait_article"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n
"It would be great to be able to celebrate my bachelor\u2019s degree with a 100 kg clean and jerk lift\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""It would be great to be able to celebrate my bachelor\u2019s degree with a 100 kg clean and jerk lift\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"24-year-old Mette is a sports science student, has a supplementary subject in Danish, and a student job in the health club Fitness DK. And she is an Olympic weightlifter on the Danish national team.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"University Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uniavis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-10T08:08:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-12-10T10:09:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1046\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"764\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Liv Rossander\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Uniavisen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Uniavisen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Liv Rossander\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Liv Rossander\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/842763b6b7295a02e95a5ca8eb2821b6\"},\"headline\":\"“It would be great to be able to celebrate my bachelor\u2019s degree with a 100 kg clean and jerk lift\u201d\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-10T08:08:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-12-10T10:09:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1038,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Institut for Idr\u00e6t\",\"sport\",\"Universitetssport\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Campus\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\\\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"It would be great to be able to celebrate my bachelor\u2019s degree with a 100 kg clean and jerk lift\u201d\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-10T08:08:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-12-10T10:09:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/842763b6b7295a02e95a5ca8eb2821b6\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg\",\"width\":1046,\"height\":764},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"“It would be great to be able to celebrate my bachelor\u2019s degree with a 100 kg clean and jerk lift\u201d\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/\",\"name\":\"University Post\",\"description\":\"Independent of management\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/842763b6b7295a02e95a5ca8eb2821b6\",\"name\":\"Liv Rossander\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1a921e44962d37d3315f06a2f379ef57bcdde34675badad84706182818a1bc5a?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1a921e44962d37d3315f06a2f379ef57bcdde34675badad84706182818a1bc5a?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1a921e44962d37d3315f06a2f379ef57bcdde34675badad84706182818a1bc5a?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Liv Rossander\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/author\\\/liv\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"It would be great to be able to celebrate my bachelor\u2019s degree with a 100 kg clean and jerk lift\u201d","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\"It would be great to be able to celebrate my bachelor\u2019s degree with a 100 kg clean and jerk lift\u201d","og_description":"24-year-old Mette is a sports science student, has a supplementary subject in Danish, and a student job in the health club Fitness DK. And she is an Olympic weightlifter on the Danish national team.","og_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/","og_site_name":"University Post","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uniavis","article_published_time":"2018-12-10T08:08:10+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-12-10T10:09:52+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1046,"height":764,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Liv Rossander","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Uniavisen","twitter_site":"@Uniavisen","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Liv Rossander","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/"},"author":{"name":"Liv Rossander","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#\/schema\/person\/842763b6b7295a02e95a5ca8eb2821b6"},"headline":"“It would be great to be able to celebrate my bachelor\u2019s degree with a 100 kg clean and jerk lift\u201d","datePublished":"2018-12-10T08:08:10+00:00","dateModified":"2018-12-10T10:09:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/"},"wordCount":1038,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg","keywords":["Institut for Idr\u00e6t","sport","Universitetssport"],"articleSection":["Campus"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/","url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/","name":"\"It would be great to be able to celebrate my bachelor\u2019s degree with a 100 kg clean and jerk lift\u201d","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg","datePublished":"2018-12-10T08:08:10+00:00","dateModified":"2018-12-10T10:09:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#\/schema\/person\/842763b6b7295a02e95a5ca8eb2821b6"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg","width":1046,"height":764},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/it-would-be-great-to-be-able-to-celebrate-my-bachelors-degree-with-a-100-kg-clean-and-jerk-lift\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"“It would be great to be able to celebrate my bachelor\u2019s degree with a 100 kg clean and jerk lift\u201d"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/","name":"University Post","description":"Independent of management","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#\/schema\/person\/842763b6b7295a02e95a5ca8eb2821b6","name":"Liv Rossander","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1a921e44962d37d3315f06a2f379ef57bcdde34675badad84706182818a1bc5a?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1a921e44962d37d3315f06a2f379ef57bcdde34675badad84706182818a1bc5a?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1a921e44962d37d3315f06a2f379ef57bcdde34675badad84706182818a1bc5a?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Liv Rossander"},"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/author\/liv\/"}]}},"advancedCustomFields":{"expression":{"term_id":14,"name":"Portrait Article","slug":"portrait_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":14,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":796,"filter":"raw"},"enable_comments":true,"align_content":"alignleft","feature_color":"#3a0000","layout_group":[{"acf_fc_layout":"Headline","use_post_title":true,"headline":"","style":"default","highlighted_words":"","text_size":"small"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":78394,"id":78394,"title":"2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n 2","filename":"2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg","filesize":86779,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/det-vil-vaere-fedt-at-kunne-fejre-min-bachelor-med-100-kilo-i-stoed\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n-2\/","alt":"","author":"14","description":"","caption":"","name":"2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":78342,"date":"2018-11-27 11:25:14","modified":"2018-11-29 08:11:58","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1046,"height":764,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2-480x351.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":351,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2-768x561.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":561,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg","large-width":1046,"large-height":764,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg","1536x1536-width":1046,"1536x1536-height":764,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg","2048x2048-width":1046,"2048x2048-height":764,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2-290x212.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":212,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2-700x511.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":511,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2-990x723.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":723}},"style":"extended","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":false,"alternative_caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"Standfirst","subject":"Elite sport","text":"","use_post_excerpt":true},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":true,"contributors":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>Mette Pedersen stands, bent over a barbell with two weight plates at each end. Her gaze is focused and determined. She looks down at her hands firmly planted on either side of the bar and stands, a few seconds, completely motionless.<\/p>\n<p>Then she tilts her foot slightly, adjusts her grip and raises the bar above her head. The arms shake precariously when she straightens up, but a wry, triumphant, smile comes over her lips, when she stands \u2013 with 82 kg over her head and arms extended.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In social terms, I’ve definitely lost something on my study programme due to my sport<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Mette Pedersen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As soon as she lets go of the weight, which bangs down to the floor, she claps her hands, and a cloud of chalk goes up as she walks out of the picture with her arms raised in triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Mette Fasmilla Pedersen is a sports science student with a subsidiary subject in Danish, and an Olympic weightlifter. In order to explain what a weightlifting competition is actually about, she has sent two videos. One is in the discipline ‘snatch’, the other is in the discipline ‘clean and jerk’. These are the two disciplines that Mette Pedersen travels the world competing in. The scene described above is from the video on the snatch \u2013 a discipline where Mette Pedersen can lift 83 kg. In the video with a clean and jerk lift, she’s standing with <secret text=\"It is the same as 4.3 beer crates\">98 kilos over her head<\/secret><\/p>\n<p>Her career as a weightlifter began in upper secondary school, where Mette Pedersen after many years as an elite swimmer, changed her focus and started to lift heavy weights, instead of swimming fast. Two weekly training session became more, and \u201csuddenly\u201d \u2013 the year after \u2013she got to the Danish championships. Since then it has turned into many contests, competitions and championships, and today Mette Pedersen both has a place on the national team and several Danish records under her belt.<\/p>\n<h2>Heavy lifting and heavy textbooks<\/h2>\n<p>But it is not always easy to balance a life as a full-time student with the quest to become one of the world’s strongest women. Mette Pedersen has to take care of six weight training sessions a week, a student job in the Fitness DK health club and a full-time degree programme. This means that she has to say no to many social events, and that she often has every minute of the day scheduled before it has even begun.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":78339,"id":78339,"title":"Mette Fasmilla Pedersen VM","filename":"fasmillaem.jpg","filesize":755815,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fasmillaem.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/det-vil-vaere-fedt-at-kunne-fejre-min-bachelor-med-100-kilo-i-stoed\/fasmilla-em\/","alt":"","author":"14","description":"","caption":"Mette l\u00f8fter til VM 2018 i Turkmenistan ","name":"fasmilla-em","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":78342,"date":"2018-11-26 15:31:42","modified":"2018-11-27 17:30:10","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":5184,"height":3456,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fasmillaem-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fasmillaem-480x320.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fasmillaem-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fasmillaem-1280x853.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":853,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fasmillaem.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fasmillaem.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1365,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fasmillaem-290x193.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":193,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fasmillaem-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fasmillaem-700x467.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fasmillaem-990x660.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":660}},"style":"extended","text_placement":"metadata-left","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"Mette lifts at the 2018 world championships in Turkmenistan"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>“I don\u2019t hang around after the lecture. Because if I do, my schedule falls apart. In social terms, I’ve definitely lost something on my study programme due to my sport. But my fellow students have always accepted my choice. They follow me my competition life, and I am always invited \u2013 despite the fact that I often have to say no,” she says.<\/p>\n<p>Academically, Mette Pedersen’s dedication to weight lifting has also left its mark. In order to spread out the study programme\u2019s workload and to balance her academics and her sports, she has had to postpone several subjects.<\/p>\n<p>“I need one single subject on my bachelor, which I am taking this spring. And then I am finished,” she says and continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was close to losing my place on the national team. “It was really hard because I knew that I could do a lot more than what I showed in this period<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Mette Pedersen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>“But in the end the study programme is the most important.”<\/p>\n<p>Mette Pedersen, however, is happy that she has not yet been in a situation where it has been necessary to choose between lifting and reading. Things were close, during the first years of her study programme:<\/p>\n<p>“The many practical subjects on the study programme meant that I was unable to work out as much as I used to. I was constantly in a state of overtraining \u2013 but without actually training a lot of weights. My lack of sporting progress also meant that I was close to losing my place on the national team. “It was really hard because I knew that I could do a lot more than what I showed in this period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, more than two years later, Mette Pedersen is still hard at it. 2018 has been her best sporting year ever, and she is at the same time putting the finishing touches on her bachelor’s project, which is to be submitted in January. From a sporting perspective, 2018 gave her nine Danish records, a title as Danish champion, and trips to the Nordic Championships, the World University Games and the World Championships.<\/p>\n<h2>100 kg over her head<\/h2>\n<p>In fact, it is only a few weeks ago that Mette Pedersen came home from the World Championships, which were held this year in Turkmenistan. Since the start of the semester, she has had more than a full month of travelling.<\/p>\n<p>“Fortunately, my bachelor\u2019s buddy is really understanding, so it has not actually been a problem to get things to work,” she says.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is no indication that the travelling activity will stop on the other side of the new year and let Mette Pedersen complete her bachelor\u2019s degree in peace. There is both the Danish Championships in March and a European Championships in April. The European Championships are a week after Mette Pedersen’s last exam.<\/p>\n<p>“I already know now that it will be an extraordinary period of high pressure. But with some good planning, I can take care of both things. I hope I can celebrate my bachelor’s degree with the weightlifting national team in Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it is not enough for Mette Pedersen to just perform reasonably at the European Championships. She has been hoping to beat her own record in clean and jerk by 2 kg \u2013 and thereby round the magic 100 kilos.<\/p>\n<p>“Yes, it would be great to be able to celebrate my bachelor\u2019s degree with a 100 kg clean and jerk lift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, there are only five other Danish women in Mette Pedersen’s class that can lift 100 kg or more in the snatch discipline.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Embed","url":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BqUdnxSB2Xw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:640px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BqUdnxSB2Xw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;\" target=\"_blank\"> <div style=\" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\"> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div> <div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\"> <div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div> <div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div><div style=\"display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;\"><svg width=\"50px\" height=\"50px\" viewBox=\"0 0 60 60\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\"><g stroke=\"none\" stroke-width=\"1\" fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\"><g transform=\"translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)\" fill=\"#000000\"><g><path d=\"M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631\"><\/path><\/g><\/g><\/g><\/svg><\/div><div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\"> <div style=\" color:#3897f0; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;\"> View this post on Instagram<\/div><\/div><div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div> <div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\"><div> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div><\/div><div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\"> <div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div> <div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)\"><\/div><\/div><div style=\"margin-left: auto;\"> <div style=\" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div> <div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div> <div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a> <p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BqUdnxSB2Xw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">82\/98\/180 kilo i (-71) ved \u00d8st 2018 \u2728 Resultatet var nok til, at jeg satte dansk rekord i tr\u00e6k, st\u00f8d og tokamp! #alwaysbeproud #fightforeverygram ","headline":"Mette getting her Danish record","caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"Dansk","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Receive a weekly newsletter in your inbox","button_text":"Tilmeld nu","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":44,"name":"Campus","slug":"campus","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":44,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1547,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":1568,"name":"Institut for Idr\u00e6t","slug":"institut-for-idraet-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1568,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1025,"name":"sport","slug":"sport-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1025,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1582,"name":"Universitetssport","slug":"universitetssport-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1582,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":14,"name":"Portrait Article","slug":"portrait_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":14,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":796,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2034759714451871455608094037008489300623360n2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79069,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79059\/revisions\/79069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}