sentences:  This, of course, was before she became a national athlete.Lassen qualified to compete at the 1995 Canadian Championships and the 1995 Junior World Weightlifting Championships (the first junior international event for women) however Lassen had to go to court to do so.Lassen competed at six Junior World Weightlifting Championships (1995-2000) and is one of the few athletes, both men and women, in the world to do so.