David Broome

David McPherson Broome CBE (born 1 March 1940) is a retired Welsh show jumping champion.

He competed in the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1988 Olympics and won individual bronze medals in 1960 on Sunsalve and in 1968 on his best-known horse Mr Softee.

[1] In 1960, he was also voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year, and at the 1972 Games served as the Olympic flag bearer for Great Britain.

[2] Broome was born in Cardiff, attended Monmouth School, and still maintains his stables at Mount Ballan Manor, Crick, near Chepstow in Monmouthshire.

In 1970, he won the world title and became Western Mail Welsh Sports Personality of the year.

Broome on Sportsman in 1975