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Lis Hartel

Danish equestrian (1921–2009)


Full name	Lis Hartel
Born	(1921-03-14)March 14, 1921
Died	February 12, 2009(2009-02-12) (aged 87)
Country	Denmark
Event	equestrian

Lis Hartel (March 14, 1921 – February 12, 2009) was an Olympicequestrian competitor from Denmark.^[1]^[2]

At the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games, Hartel was one of four women who were the first to compete in modern equestrian sports at the Summer Olympics, also including Ida von Nagel, representing Germany; Elsa Christophersen, from Norway; and Marjorie Haines, from the United States. Hartel became the first female equestrian to win a medal in individual dressage.^[3]

History

Lis Holst was born on 14 March 1921 to equestrians Ejnar Peter Holst and Else Harriet Holst (née Schmidt), in the coastal town of Hellerup, Denmark, just north of Copenhagen. She was originally trained in equestrian sports by her mother, Else Holst, but began to be coached by Danish Olympic trainer Gunnar Andersen when she became nationally competitive.^[

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Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

"Lis Hartel became paralyzed after contracting polio in 1944. Her dreams of riding horses and competing in the sport of dressage were shattered. After months in the hospital, doctors told her she'd never ride again. Lis tried anyway. How do you stay on a horse without using your legs? How do you give the subtle cues needed in dressage with limited mobility? With hard work--and an unlikely horse named Jubilee. After years of training together and creating a new way of communicating, Lis and Jubilee danced into the competition ring, and eventually all the way to the Olympics. Lis Hartel was the first woman with a disability ever to win an Olympic medal, and the first woman to stand equally beside men on the Olympic winners' podium in any sport."--

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Transcript

Lis Hartel was a Danish equestrian competitor in the 1940s and 1950s. She competed in the 1952 Olympics and the 1956 Olympics and she won medals at both.

However, her Olympic medals are just the starting point of her fascinating and inspirational story.

Learn more about Lis Hartel and her remarkable accomplishments on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

Lis Hartel was born in 1921 in Hellerup, Denmark. At a very young age she took a liking to horses and began competitive horse riding. Her preferred event was dressage, but she also competed in horse jumping.

Dressage for those who aren’t familiar with equestrian events is the premier event when it comes to horse training. Its closest analog would be to figure skating or a floor routine in gymnastics, where you combine artistic and athletic elements in an open space, usually to music……and with a horse.

As many people did at the time, she married at the young age of 20 and had several