Lauridsen represented her country at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing winning a bronze and gold medal.

[1] Four years later she was back on the international stage, but she had changed discipline to represent Denmark as a swimmer.

In the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships held in Durban she entered five events winning medals in three, gold in the 150m individual medley SM$ and silver in 50m backstroke S5 and the 50m breaststroke SB3.

[1] The next year, at an open meet in Berlin which acted as a qualifier for the 2008 Summer Paralympics, Lauridsen took gold in both the 100m backstroke S5 and the 150m individual medley SM4.

Her time in the 100m backstroke of 1:32.91 set a new world record and ensured her a place in the Beijing Paralympic Games.