Dame Mary is a former British athlete.
Her full name is Dame Mary Elizabeth Peters. She was born in 1939 in Halewood
but she moved to Ballymena at eleven and she lives now in Lisburn. Dame Mary
won one gold medal in 1972 Summer Olympics, two gold medals and one silver
medal in Commonwealth Games between 1958 and 1974. She was appointed Commander
of the Order of the British Empire in 2000, appointed MBE in 1972 and CBE in
1990. She became a Trustee of The Outward Bound trust in May 2001, Vice
President of the Northern Ireland Outward Bound Association, and Patron
Springhill Hospice in Rochdale. Ireland’s premier athletics track was named
after her. Jessica Ennis holds the gold medal for 2012 summer’s Olympics games.
I’m not a fan of the Olympics games, but I like swimming so I will say that
swimming is my favorite Olympics game.
