Mary Peters (athlete)
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| Gold | 1972 Munich | Pentathlon | |
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 Halewood,Lancashire but moved to Ballymena at age eleven. She now lives near Belfast.[citation needed]
In the 1972 Summer Olympics she beat the local favourite, Heide Rosendahl.
She was made an MBE in 1973, a CBE in 1990, and a DBE in 2000, the year in which Denise Lewis won gold in the women's multi-discipline event, now the heptathlon.
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| Olympic champions in women's pentathlon and heptathlon |
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| As pentathlon: 1964: Irina Press | 1968: Ingrid Becker | 1972: Mary Peters | 1976: Siegrun Siegl | 1980: Nadezhda Tkachenko |
| As heptathlon: 1984: Glynis Nunn | 1988: Jackie Joyner-Kersee | 1992: Jackie Joyner-Kersee| 1996: Ghada Shouaa | 2000: Denise Lewis | 2004: Carolina Klüft |
| British Olympic champions in women's athletics |
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| 1964: Mary Rand (long jump) | 1964: Ann Packer (800 m) | 1972: Mary Peters (pentathlon) | 1984: Tessa Sanderson (javelin) | 1992: Sally Gunnell (400 m hurdles) | 2000: Denise Lewis (heptathlon) | 2004: Kelly Holmes (800 m & 1500 m) |
| Preceded by Princess Anne |
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1972 |
Succeeded by Jackie Stewart |
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