Sunday, September 21, 2014


Dame Mary Elizabeth
Mary Peters was born in 1939 in Halewood, Lancashire, and moved to Ballymena. She is a former British athlete who had been awarded many gold and silver medals in pentathlon by representing  Great Britain. A track on the outskirts of Belfast was named after her in her honor. She had won 3 gold medals and a silver medal, and her nationality now is British and lives in Lisburn.