Pat Smythe, formally Patricia Rosemary Smythe and later Koechlin by marriage, was a British show jumper, born in East Sheen on 22 November 1928 and dead in Miserden on 27 February 1996. She was regarded as one of the finest female show jumpers of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1956 she and Brigitte Schockaert of Belgium were the first two women to take part in Olympic show jumping, and her team bronze medal that year made her the first woman to win an Olympic show jumping medal. She also rode at the 1960 Games, won the European Ladies Championship four times, took 13 Nations Cup events, and later presided over the British Show Jumping Association while writing children's books about horses.
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Born 22 November 1928 in East Sheen, England
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Competed In: 1956 Summer Olympics, Results, 1956 Equestrian Olympics
1956 Equestrian Olympics
Competed In: 1960 Summer Olympics, Results, 1960 Summer Olympics
1960 Summer Olympics
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