David Smith (rower)

David Smith, an MBE born on 21 April 1978 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, is a British adaptive rower who won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. He was born with a club foot and for the first three years of his life had his bones repeatedly broken and reset to correct his foot's alignment. He competes in the legs, trunk and arms adaptive mixed coxed four, in which he won a gold medal at the 2009 World Rowing Championships with a crew including Vicky Hansford, Naomi Riches, James Roe and the cox Rhiannon Jones, and at the 2012 Games he won gold alongside Pam Relph, Naomi Riches, James Roe and the cox Lily van den Broecke.