Hobbies
Football, cooking. (gymdanmark.dk, 19 Jun 2022)
Occupation
Information Technology, Student
Education
Information Technology - IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Family
Partner Sofie
Spoken languages
Danish, English, Finnish
Club
Haslev TT [Denmark]
Coach
Anette Dalsten [club, national], DEN
Start sporting career
He began trampolining at age six in Naestved, Denmark. He started competing in 2009. (chopar.dk, 01 Jan 2020; gymdanmark.dk, 20 May 2017)
Reason for taking up the sport
"It all started when I got a trampoline in the garden when I was six years old. I jumped a lot with my sister and I started to develop my own tricks. My father thought it looked cool, so I started at a trampoline school in Naestved." (gymdanmark.dk, 20 May 2017)
Milestones
He became the first athlete to represent Denmark in trampolining at the European Games when he competed at the 2019 Games in Minsk, Belarus. (tv2east.dk, 28 May 2019)
Ambitions
To compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (gymdanmark.dk, 19 Jun 2022)
Trainings
He trains three times a week in Haslev, Denmark. He travels to Haslev from Copenhagen, Denmark. (gymdanmark.dk, 19 Jun 2022)
Most memorable sporting achievement
Placing third in the individual competition at the 2022 World Cup event in Rimini, Italy. (sn.dk, 06 Jun 2022)
Hero / Idol
Canadian trampoline gymnast Jason Burnett. (gymdanmark.dk, 2015)
Philosophy / Motto
"In trampoline, you can't win in extra time like in football. You have to perform here and now - otherwise you're out." (gymdanmark.dk, 19 Jun 2022)
Additional information
General
NO SAFETY MAT
He does not use a safety mat on the edge of the trampoline. "I'm never afraid to go up. I want to feel so confident in my exercise that I don't need it. I know the risk and don't take stupid chances along the way." (sn.dk, 08 Oct 2019)
OCCUPATION
In 2022 he began working part-time as a junior software developer at a digital agency in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has also run his own mobile phone repair company called Kjaer To Repair. (LinkedIn profile, 24 Oct 2022; Instagram profile, 28 Oct 2019; Facebook profile, 24 Sep 2019)
FURTHER EDUCATION
In 2022 he began studying for a master's degree in software engineering at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark. (LinkedIn profile, 24 Oct 2022)
Last update : 2022-10-31
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