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Digby Willoughby (bobsleigher)
Lieutenant Colonel Digby Willoughby MC MBE (4 May 1934 – 27 February 2007) was a soldier and sportsman, one of a two-man bobsleigh team that broke the world record in 1961. He later became chief executive of the St Moritz Tobogganing Club, a position he held for 24 years, fiercely guarding its traditions, which he saw as part of the last truly amateur sport.
==Early life==
Digby Jeremie Willoughby was born in India, the son of an officer of the Bombay Grenadiers and the Indian Political Service. He was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and the RMA Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the 2nd Gurkha Rifles and joined the 1st Battalion in Malaya in 1955.
During his early leaves from the Far East Willoughby began to ride bobsleigh runs, and in 1961 his two-man team broke the world record on the St Moritz Bob run and was in the British contingent at the World Games at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1962. He had also started riding the single toboggans at the Cresta Run in St Moritz in 1958 and was a member of the Army Cresta team in the 1960s and 1970s.
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