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God bless you Ron.

Ай, Мэри! С такой комплекцией так в высоту прыгнуть!

The great Mary Peters.

Fabulous woman and performance

Oh Mary and yes Lillian then al the other greats of Mary Rand, Ann Packer, those days of great joy xxxx

Mary Peters won, but Rosendahl was more stylish.

I clearly remember watching the 200 metres particularly in the television room at Corton Caravan and Chalet holiday camp as a 9 year old. Exciting to watch even today. Mary is an inspiration.

I remember seeing Mary complete with gold medal as she was visiting a relative it in quarry street in Woolton Liverpool , I was about 9 never forgot her lovely smile 💖

I remember that very well Mary peters visited one of her family in woolton in Liverpool I remember it well as I was 8 years of age with a crowd of all the kids and she let us touch the medal I've never forgotten 😘

Saw her today along with Heide Rosendahl at a 50th anniversary function in Belfast. There was a lovely interview with them both and afterward Dame Mary was bopping away to the ABBA tribute band in 1970s style at the age of 83.

Exactly fifty years on from that day I've been taking a look at a Live Blog, written as if it were happening now, at the 'Süddeutsche Zeitung' site on West Germany's 'Goldener Sonntag' of three Golds for the host nation in Athletics, this being the only downer for them, denying them a fourth by a very narrow margin. They were calling Mary an 'Engländerin', but don't worry, I corrected them in my best German!

Great memories.

The 200metres why does it give me goosebumps , watching it and the brilliant commontary of Ron Pickering, and remembering we are the champion children programme he presented that he inspired a generation of kids to do sports for fun. and enjoyment.

I think had I been a few years older in 1972 I would have remembered this. What a lovely lady Mary Peters was/is. My first Olympic memories are from the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Good to see Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones picking up a bronze.

Great times I was 8 years old loved watching the Olympic games

What an athlete, what a lady. You did us all proud Mary. The achievement is all the more remarkable knowing what we know now about the amount of steroids pumped into the eastern block athletes.

What a great competition with exciting athletes 13.3s for the sprint hurdles, over 16m shot put, 1.82cm high jump, 6m in long jump, then a 24 sec (?) 200m. Mary Peters results are still competitive for multi events

Strange to think all these young women here are old or dead now.

Great to watch and listen to the legendary Ron Pickering commentating.

My heroine !

Dame Mary is a legend! Very sporting behaviour between all three women on the podium.

Thanks for uploading!

I cry every time I watch this, Mary is a Legend to us

Seriously. A thumbs down ? Get a grip.

Nowadays the announcers would say to Mary Peters "GET IN THERE!"

Who can ever forget that smile!!

I watched this as a twelve year old.mary is 82 now. Great lady.

I’m still welling up now. Thank you Mary Peters. I was 10 when I watched Mary come through to win the Gold Medal for G.B.

I remember my parents loved Mary Peters. They were jumping up and down by the telling yelling for Mary. My parents loved sports the Olympics etc. They were local athletes themselves.

Great respect shown between the competitors too, with Rosendahl offering congratulations. What a competition that was, and a golden moment for Mary Peters.

Heidi Marie Rosenthal and Pollack. I read the story in a sports magazine while in school.

East Germany third. Clearly someone messed up the meds.

Let's take a moment to recognise the sportsmanship of Heide Rosendahl (3:32). That can't have been easy for her with all the pressure she must have been under at a home Games.

Ron Pickering's amazing commentary in the 200m 'the roar for Rosendahl' and 'come on Mary, you need the run of your life' as well as Mary's wonderful achievement in Munich and all the good she has done in her career after athletics. For me, I also remember missing the great Lillian Board.

There's a debate on another page about Dame Mary's heritage. She may not have been born in Belfast, but she was there when the Troubles began, battling her way through the tension-filled streets to get to training locations. When she won that Gold Medal, the people of Northern Ireland, for a spell, at least, were united. They forgot about whether they were Catholic or Protestant. They forgot about the legacy of Bloody Sunday, which - up until then - had been so fresh in peoples' minds. All they knew was they had watched their Olympic heroine take on the world and conquer it.... I met this wonderful lady...ooh, it must have been the thick end of thirty years ago, when she helped celebrate the opening of the Norman Green Athletics Centre in my home town of Solihull, near Birmingham. A gracious lady, ever-smiling and charming. She deserves all the honours that she' got.....and there are quite a few of them, as far as I can make out....

There's a debate on this page about Dame Mary's heritage. She may not have been born in Belfast, but she was there when the Troubles began, battling through the tension-filled streets to get to training locations. When she won that Gold Medal, the people of Northern Ireland, for a spell, at least, were united. They forgot about whether they were Catholic or Protestant. They forgot about the legacy of Bloody Sunday, which - up until then - had been so fresh in peoples' minds. All they knew was they had watched their Olympic heroine take on the world and conquer it....

I was there on that day when she won the gold medal. I was a thirteen year old. On a school trip from cwrt sart school in south wales. It was a great experience.

I remember watching it back then. A fantastic performance to win Gold and a World Record too! A lovely lady. 👍

Scousers always win

I was nine but remember it well. Indeed, it still brings tear to my eyes as well. Made even more memorable by the wonderful commentary of Ron Pickering and David Coleman.

wonderful performance by a true champion and superb commentary from Ron Pickering and David Coleman

An extraordinary achievement in the era of the Soviet and East German sports machines. Mary a real champion and a lovely person too.

I was only ten when she did this and I don't think I appreciated what an athlete she was and how much this was just her and a coach working in isolation to win a gold against the Soviet and East German machines.

In't youtube great? loved the massive crowd, reminded me of the Brazilian Olympic games.

That level of sport.......just boggles the mind.

I’ve come to know about this lady while studying for my Life in UK Test...👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾impressive woman

Come on Mary come on

Hi mary you visited our school today

All of them were doped... horrible doped!