Sports man/woman of the month

Dame Mary Elizabeth Peters.

 

Dame Mary moved to Ballymena at age eleven and she won the gold medals in the women’s pentathlon and shot put. Between 1958 and 1974 she won 2 gold medals for pentathlon plus gold and silver medals for the shot put which were in the Commonwealth Games.

The charities that she supports are Outward Bound Trust in May 2001 and she is Vice President of the Northern Ireland Outward bound Association. Dame Mary is also Patron of Springhill Hospice in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. The track named after her on the outskirts of Belfast, is called the Mary Peters Track in her honour.

Mary’s nationality is British and nowadays she lives in the Belfast city. Jessica Ennis holds the current gold medal in the women’s heptathlon in the 2012 Olympic Games in London.