David Pirie Webster, OBE (18 September 1928 – 18 October 2023) was a Scottish author, historian, and sports promoter living in Glasgow.
He attended the 1960, 1968, and 1972 Olympics as part of the Scottish delegation and worked at the World & European Championships every year from 1961 to 1966 as either a technical official, referee, or coach.
In the 1995 Birthday Honours, Webster was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to sport.
[5][6] In the 1960s, Webster began promoting the Highland games internationally as a way to bring tourists to Scotland and helped to revive some of the traditional Scottish sports such as stone-lifting and caber-tossing.
Iceland's Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson won the event with an inaugural world record of 25.5 kg (56 lb) over 5.79 metres (19 ft 0 in).