Career
She weighs 61 kilograms, and is therefore in the lightweight class. She lives in Copenhagen. In the first race at the lightweight double sculls at Beijing, Rasmussen and team-mate Katrin Olsen were in third place behind Japan, but finished in second place, and qualified for the semi-final.
In the semi-final they came fourth (only the three best qualify for the final), and were eliminated.
At the, Rasmussen and team-mate Anne Lolk Thomsen reached the final, which they finished in fourth place.