Mary Peters

Dame Mary Peters (born July 6, 1939) is a former British pentathlete. She won a gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Peters was born in Liverpool, but moved to Belfast at age 11.

In the 1972 Summer Olympics she beat the local favorite, Heide Rosendahl.

She was made an MBE in 1973, a CBE in 1990, and was knighted (DBE) in 2000, the year in which Denise Lewis won gold in the women's multi-discipline event, now the heptathlon.

Olympic medalists in athletics (women) | Olympic Champions in Women's Pentathlon and Heptathlon

As Pentathlon: Irina Press | Ingrid Becker | Mary Peters | Siegrun Siegl | Nadezhda Tkachenko

As Heptathlon: Glynis Nunn | Jackie Joyner-Kersee (twice) | Ghada Shouaa | Denise Lewis | Carolina Klüft

Olympic medalists in athletics (women) | British Olympic champions in women's athletics

1964: Mary Rand (long jump) | 1964: Ann Packer (800m) | 1972: Mary Peters (pentathlon) | 1984: Tessa Sanderson (javelin) | 1992: Sally Gunnell (400m hurdles) | 2000: Denise Lewis (heptathlon) | 2004: Kelly Holmes (800m & 1500m)

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