About Mary Peters (athlete)
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. After her victory, a death threat was phoned into the BBC by a man with an Irish accent: "Mary Peters is a Protestant and has won a medal for Britain. In the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Peters competing for Great Britain and Northern Ireland and won the gold medal in the women's pentathlon.
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