Being the daughter of a Nazi, the sister of an Eastern front volunteer, and married to a German officer, she became very unpopular after the war, and was barred from the Danish team for the 1948 Olympics.

[4] In 1966, she was inducted to the International Swimming Hall of Fame,[5] and 30 years later declared sportswoman of the century by Danmarks Idræts-Forbund.

Privately she dreamed about being a nurse but was encouraged by her parent to practise competition swimming.

In her favorite discipline 400 m freestyle she won the first heat in a new olympic record and in the semifinal she beat her closest competitor Rie Mastenbroek from the Netherlands.

Hveger moved in 1943 to Kiel in Germany, where she for at time worked as a swimming teacher.

Together they had a daughter which she managed to get with her back to Denmark when the Nazi regime broke down in 1945.

Both her father and her brother fought on the Eastern front and were sentenced to jail, however she was not prosecuted.

Officially, the given reason was that she had violated the amateur rules by working as a swimming teacher.

In 1966, she was inducted to the International Swimming Hall of Fame at Fort Lauderdale Florida as only one of four Danes.