Mary Peters (athlete)
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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.
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Full name | Mary Elizabeth Peters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1939-07-06) 6 July 1939 (age 84) Halewood, Liverpool, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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