Shot Putter Mary Peters

Mary Peters

Living place: England

Birthday: 6-7-1939 (85 years old)

Global rank: #58048

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Shot Putter Mary Peters profile

Who is Shot Putter Mary Peters?
After winning gold medals in the set shot and pentathlon events at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, she won the Olympic Gold Medal and set a world record as a pentathlete at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich, West Germany.
After she beat German athlete Heide Rosendahl to an Olympic gold medal, Peters, who is a Protestant, was subjected to numerous death threats from sources possibly connected to the IRA.
 
 

Young / Before famous

Made a television movie titled The Crash.

Family life info

She spent her early years in Lancashire, England, and the rest of her life in Northern Ireland. Her father supported her early athletic aspirations by building training facilities for her in the family's Portadown home.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Shot Putter Mary Peters?
She and her British putter colleague Geoff Capes both won gold medals at the Commonwealth Games.

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Summary of Mary Peters profile

When was Shot Putter Mary Peters born?
Mary Peters birthday 6-7-1939 (at the age of 85).
Where is Shot Putter Mary Peters's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Mary Peters was born in England. is a Shot Putter, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Mary Peters's global rank is 58048 and whose rank is 4 in list of famous Shot Putter.
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Events in 1939 and 6-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Mary Peters

  • Germany invades Poland; occupies Bohemia and Moravia; renounces pact with England and concludes 10-year non-aggression pact with U.S.S.R.
  • Russo-Finnish War begins; Finns to lose one-tenth of territory in 1940 peace treaty.
  • World War II begins.

Birthday Mary Peters (6-7) in history

  • Day 6-7 year 1535: Attorney Thomas More was beheaded in Tower Hill, London, United Kingdom, after refusing to join the Church of England by Henry VIII.
  • Day 6-7 year 1885: Louis Pasteur successfully treated a patient with a rabies vaccine.
  • Day 6-7 year 1942: Anne Frank and her family sought refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
  • Day 6-7 year 1944: A fire caused by inept fire-eaters in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers Circus in Hartford, Conn., killed over 160 people.
  • Day 6-7 year 1957: Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women's singles tennis title. She was the first black person to win the event.
  • Day 6-7 year 1997: The Mars rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian surface.
  • Day 6-7 year 1998: Roy Rogers, the King of the Cowboys, died.
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