Mary Elizabeth Peters

She moved to Ballymena when she was eleven years old. She won the gold medal in 1972 summer Olympic in women’s pentathlon. She was appointed as CBE, MBE and The Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 2001, she became a trustee of The Outward Bound Trust and also Patron of Springhill Hospice in Rochdale. N. Ireland’s Premier athletics track was named after her. In the Commonwealth Games she won 2 gold medals and a silver medal for the shot out. She lives now in Lisburn. She is British. In the recent Olympic Games that have been held in UK Jessica Ennis  won the gold medal in woman’s heptathlon. I don’t have favorite track event because I don’t have any idea about the Olympics. My favorite field event is the javelin throw.