A famous sport woman

Mary Peters moved to Ballymena when she was eleven. She won the Olympic gold  medal  in the women’s pentathlon. Mary Peters had many awards like CBE, MBE and Dame Commander. The charities she supported were the Outward Bound Trust and Springhill Hospice. The track named after her is N. Ireland’s premier  athletics track. She won in the Commonwealth Games 2 gold medals for the pentathlon plus a gold and silver medal for the shot put. She lives now in Lisburn, just outside Belfast. Her nationality is British. The woman who holds the current gold medal is Jessica Enmis.