Pat Smythe

Date of birth : 11/22/1928

Date of death : 02/27/1996

City of birth : East Sheen, Surrey, England, UK

Renowned British show-jumper of the 1950s and 1960s, winning a bronze medal as part of the Great Britain show-jumping team in the 1956 Olympic Games at Stockholm. In these games, herself and Belgium's Brigitte Schockaert were the first women to compete in Olympic show-jumping. She also wrote a number of successful equestrian and autobiographical books, as well as a number of children's books. In 1956 she was awarded an OBE.