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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.
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
Mary Peters (athlete) (born 1939), Northern Irish athlete; Mary Peters (hymn writer) (1813–1856), British hymn writer; Mary Peters (1852–1921), indigenous Oregon woman and ferry operator; Mary E. Peters (born 1948), American politician, 15th United States Secretary of Transportation; Mary Peters Fieser (1909–1997), née Mary Peters ...
The United States Women's National Team has had several athletes become icons since the 1990s. Most recently, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe have joined the likes of Mia Hamm and Abby Wambach as ...
Dame Denise Rosemarie Lewis DBE (born 27 August 1972) is a British sports administrator and former sports presenter and athletics athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics , was twice Commonwealth Games champion, was the 1998 European Champion , and won World Championships ...
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The tributes to her at the BBC awards ceremony were led by the six British female athletes who had previously won gold at the Olympic Games in a "Magnificent Seven"-style feature – those six being Mary Rand, Ann Packer, Mary Peters, Tessa Sanderson, Sally Gunnell and Denise Lewis. [citation needed]
Two days later in a thrilling pentathlon, she finished second to Mary Peters of Great Britain. [2] After the three events on the first day Rosendahl was in the fifth place, 301 points behind Peters. On the second day, she jumped 6.83 m in the long jump (one cm short of the record) and ran the 200 m in 22.96 seconds.