Denmark’s Lis Hartel could only managed a pair of silver medals in the dressage competition of equestrian in the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games held in Helsinki and Melbourne, respectively.

Those modest finishes proved enough though to earn for Lis the respect and accolade as one of the most revered athletes in her country’s Olympic history.

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