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Mary Peters

British pentathlete

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    Born 1939
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-06-21

Lady Mary Elizabeth Peters 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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  • Knight of the Garter
  • honorary doctorate
  • BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
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