Mary Peters (athlete)

Lady

Mary Peters

LG CH DBE

Peters in 2008
Personal information
Full name	Mary Elizabeth Peters
Nationality	British
Born	(1939-07-06) 6 July 1939 (age 85) Halewood, Liverpool, England
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 1972 Munich Pentathlon Representing  Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games 1970 Edinburgh Shot put 1970 Edinburgh Pentathlon 1974 Christchurch Pentathlon 1966 Kingston Shot put

Lady Mary Elizabeth Peters, LG, CH, DBE (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. She was installed in St. George's Chapel, the chapel of the Order, on Garter Day, 17 June.