Lady Mary Peters was installed as a member of the Most ... of the Northern Ireland athlete's historic gold medal win in the pentathlon at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. A series of celebration ...

It’s 50 years since the magnificent Mary Peters won Olympic gold in Munich in the pentathlon. Here in the legendary athlete’s own words, she reflects on one of Northern Ireland’s greatest ...

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 ...

“He warned that if I came home to Belfast I’d be shot and my flat would be bombed,” Mary Peters says of the anonymous man who threatened to kill her after she won gold in the pentathlon at ...

which adds eight new chapters to 1974’s Mary P. It is a trailblazing tale. When Peters sprinted to the finish line in Munich in 1972, thus clinching the pentathlon title, she became just the ...

The last Northern Ireland athlete to win an individual Olympic gold medal has hailed an “extraordinary” Paris 2024 medal haul. Daniel Wiffen, 23, won a swimming gold medal for Team Ireland in ...

Mary Peters (left) competing early in her career in the first heat of the 80m hurdles of the Women’s Amateur Athletic Association’s national senior pentathlon, at the Crystal Palace Stadium in ...

Northern Ireland had previously won just three gold medals in the Olympics. Lady Mary Peters won gold in the pentathlon in the 1972 Games in Munich, while Stephen Martin and Jimmy Kirkwood earned ...