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Lady Mary Elizabeth Peters (born 6 July 1939) is a Northern Irish former athlete and athletics administrator. She is best known as the 1972 Olympic champion in the pentathlon, for which she won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. Peters was named as Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter on 27 February 2019.
The favorites going into the Olympics were Heide Rosendahl and Burglinde Pollak. With Rosendahl narrowly defeating Pollack, by 24 points at the 1971 European Athletics Championships. The second event saw Mary Peters release a tremendous throw in the shot put catapulting her into lead, which she never relinquished. [1]
The 1972 Summer Olympics were held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. Archery Medal table ... Mary Peters Great Britain: 4801 pts ...
Lady Mary was recognised for her outstanding sporting achievements and charitable work. Lady Mary Peters joins ‘remarkable’ few awarded Freedom of City of London Skip to main content
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The 1972 Summer Olympics ... Gold medal awarded to Mary Peters for the 1972 Olympic women's pentathlon. These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1972 Games.
1972 is the worst year for casualties in The Troubles, ... Olympics ; Pentathlon: Mary Peters becomes the first Irish woman to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games.
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