At the 2008 World Championships in Olomouc she received a gold medal in the Sprint event, before Minna Kauppi and Helena Jansson.

Hausken had great success in the 2008 European Orienteering Championships in Ventspils, where she won two individual gold medals.

Hausken, grown up in Karmøy, has represented her "home" club Torvastad IL, and later Bækkelagets SK.

Hausken was Junior world champion in ski-orienteering in relay in 1996 together with Kristin Tolstad Uggen and Stine Hjermstad Kirkevik, and received an individual silver medal in the classic distance.

[10] In 2011 Hausken defended her doctorate thesis, Epidemiology of anxiolytic and hypnotic drug use in the general population in Norway.