Neale Lavis
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Lavis was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1989,[3] received a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1999,[5] and received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000.[6]
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- Neale Lavis at the National Museum of Australia, featuring photos and video footage
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- 1930 births
- 2019 deaths
- Olympic equestrians for Australia
- Australian male equestrians
- Equestrians at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Equestrians at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Australian event riders
- Olympic medalists in equestrian
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees
- People from the Northern Rivers
- Sportsmen from New South Wales
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen