Marion Coakes

Marion Janice Mould is an English show-jumper. She competed for Great Britain at the 1968 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the individual jumping event.

Early life Coakes was born in June 1947. Her father, Ralph, was a farmer in Hampshire. Her elder brothers, John and Douglas, were also on the British junior show jumping team. At the age of three she learned to ride on a donkey. In 1960, her father bought Stroller, an eight-year-old pony, originally imported in a job-lot from Ireland. At the end of Marion's junior career, when she was 16, her father wanted to replace Stroller with a larger horse, but Marion was not willing to let him go and continued show jumping on the pony.

Career In her second season as a senior Marion won the Queen Elizabeth II Cup—a former international ladies class event—that took place at the Royal International Horse Show. That year, she won three Nations Cup events, helping to win the Presidents Cup. She married the jockey David Mould in 1969, and they have a son named Jack.

Media appearances Coakes played a part in season 4, episode 3 of Monty Python's Flying Circus.