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. 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. Wikipedia
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