Harvey Smith (showjumper)

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Medal record
Equestrian
World Championships
Bronze	1970 La Baule	Individual show jumping
European Championships
Bronze	1963 Rome	Individual show jumping
Silver	1967 Rotterdam	Individual show jumping
Silver	1971 Aachen	Individual show jumping
Silver	1977 Vienna	Team show jumping
Silver	1983 Hickstead	Team show jumping

Harvey Smith (born 29 December 1938) is a former British show jumping champion.

Smith was born in Yorkshire, and still maintains his stables at Craiglands Farm, High Eldwick, Bingley. He stood out from the ranks of showjumpers because of his broad accent and blunt manner. His career was often controversial; in 1971 he was disciplined (overturned on appeal) after he gave a "V sign" to the judges following a near perfect round which won him the British Show Jumping Derby for the second year in succession. Smith became so famous that he embarked on a brief, but unsuccessful, singing career. His son, Robert, also became an equestrian champion.

In 1989 Smith was honoured for being the first man to have jumped in 100 Volvo World Cup Qualifying Rounds.

During the 1970s in his spare time he competed in professional wrestling.^[1] In 1975 Smith also made a record titled "True Love".