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LADY MARY PETERS
Women’s Running celebrates the 50th anniversary of Lady Mary Peters’ Olympic gold medal in the pentathlon at the 1972 Munich games, the only gold medal achieved by a British athlete that year
It’s 50 years since Lady Mary Peters won her Olympic gold in Munich but her work for young people in sport continues
It was the 45th pentathlon of Lady Mary Peters’ career when she won her Olympic gold, setting a new world record in the event, aged 33.