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 ...

the 33-year-old pentathlete Mary Peters won a gold medal in a nail-biting competition. She crossed the barriers Her former training partner brought her running shoes and Olympic memorabilia to ...

became the first woman from Northern Ireland to win an Olympic gold since Lady Mary Peters in 1972. After watching fellow ...

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 ...

Former athlete Lady Mary Peters, 85, won the gold medal for pentathlon for Great Britain in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, writes Peter Robertson. She also represented Northern Ireland at ...