David Borradaile

At the age of 17, David Borradaile won the 1963 boys´ downhill title at the British junior ski championships at Lenk, Switzerland. He trained with the British team for the 1964 Olympics but was ruled out for most of the season after contracting mumps. Borradaile also missed most of the 1965 season following an ankle injury but did manage to finish third overall in the British Services Championships after joining the 15/19 Hussars of the British Army. His father and grandfather were both high-ranking officers in the Army. Borradaile made a comeback in 1966 and won the British slalom title. Also that year, he was runner up in the slalom at Army Ski Championships and third in the downhill at the unofficial Winter Commonwealth Games at Sankt Moritz (St. Moritz).

In 1967 Borradaile won the slalom, downhill and individual combined at the British Services Skiing Championships in addition to helping the Army win the team prize. He also won the giant slalom at that year´s British Army Championships and in 1970 won the giant slalom at the Lowlanders Championships at Val d´Isère and then added the slalom and overall titles at the British Championships. Borradaile competed in the downhill at the 1968 Grenoble Olympics but finished lowest of the four British entrants in 56th place, in a race won by the legendary Jean-Claude Killy.

In 2016, at the age of 71, Borradaile and his second wife Lucia cycled 1,020 miles from Land´s End to John O´Groats to raise money for the Alzheimer´s Society. Prior to retirement, the Borradailes were well-known racehorse owners and trainers.