Denmark’s Lis Hartel-Holst was a pioneer for women’s Dressage at the Olympic Games.
In 1944 she was paralysed by polio, and although she gradually reactivated most of her muscles she remained paralysed below the knees.
After years of rehabilitation she was able to compete once more and, when women won the right to compete in Olympic Dressage for the first time in 1952, Hartel-Holst took her place at the Games in Helsinki.
Even though she had to be helped on and off her horse, she defied the odds to win the silver medal in the Individual event. Four years later, she won another silver in Stockholm, the venue for Equestrian events for the Melbourne 1956 Games.

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Equestrianisms laikam ir vienīgie (?) sporta veidi, kur sievietes sacenšas vienā konkurencē ar vīriešiem, un iejāde relatīvi neilgā laikā ir evolucionējusi no "šī ir īstu vīru padarīšana" līdz stadijai, kur pēdējās trīs Olimpiskajās spēlēs neviens vīrietis nav stāvējis uz pjedestāla.