Dame Mary Elizabeth Peters outside the Olympic stadium site in Stratford , promoting the Mary Peters Trust

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In the 1972 Summer Olympics Peters won the gold medal in the women's pentathlon. She represented Northern Ireland at every Commonwealth Games between 1958 and 1974. In these games she won 2 gold medals for the pentathlon, plus a gold and silver medal for the shot put. She was appointed CBE in 1990, having been appointed MBE in 1972. In 2000 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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Size: 4960px × 3430px
Location: the Olympic stadium site in Stratford
Photo credit: © Tony Worpole / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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