Lady Mary had to quit her teaching job to pursue athletics and was in the red at the bank when she won pentathlon gold in ...

In 1975, she established The Mary Peters Trust in Belfast, which provides funding for young athletes from disabled and able-bodied sports to help them develop careers in their chosen sports.

Lady Mary Peters is a Northern Irish former athlete, who won the gold medal in the women's pentathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Later that year, she won the BBC Sports Personality of ...