Francis Davis Chapot (February 24, 1932 – June 20, 2016) was an American equestrian who competed at six consecutive Olympic Games - from 1956 to 1976 - and won two silver medals in team show jumping, at Rome 1960 and Munich 1972.

[3] Chapot is also known for breeding and training Gem Twist, a champion showjumper named World's Best Horse in 1990.

[3] He often attributed his success to being chosen as a member of the Olympic team and having a good relationship with Bertalan de Némethy, the aristocratic Hungarian who coached the U.S. show jumpers more than two decades and whose role Chapot assumed during the early 1980s.

[7] They retired to raise horses at Chado Farm,[8] including the champion show jumper, Gem Twist, who won two Olympic silver medals and was named World's Best Horse at the 1990 World Equestrian Games in Stockholm.

[12] Chapot was inducted into the United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame in 1994,[13] two years after his wife Mary.