About Mary Peters (athlete)
Lady Mary Elizabeth Peters (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. == Early life and education == Mary Elizabeth Peters was born on 6 July 1939 in Halewood, Liverpool and attended HuntsCross primary school, later living at 5 Mere Avenue in Alkrington near Manchester, where she went to primary school. She moved to Ballymena (and later Belfast) at the age of eleven when her father's job was relocated to Northern Ireland. As a teenager, her father encouraged her athletic career by building her home practice facilities as birthday gifts. She qualified as a teacher and worked while training. == Athletics career == After Ballymena, the family moved to Portadown where she attended Portadown College.
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