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Pawley, Frank Leonard, Former reg dir, Thames Water Internat For serv the water ind Payne, Mrs Margaret Elizabeth, For serv the. Mary Peters, who captured Olympic gold in the pentathlon at the 1972 Games in Munich, has been appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire. Mary Peters, who captured Olympic gold in the pentathlon at the 1972 Games in Munich, has been appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire. Other sporting figures to feature in the honours list are Ron Dennis, the managing director of the Formula One McLaren Grand Prix team, who is made a CBE for services to motor sport, and the former England football captain Jimmy Armfield.The radio commentator is rewarded with an OBE for services to football.MBEs are presented to Jeremy Guscott, the former England rugby union centre, and the golfer Paul Lawrie, who is the reigning Open champion.Mary Peters completed her first pentathlon in the summer of 1955 as a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Portadown.Her triumph at the Olympics was achieved over the formidable West German Heide Rosendahl and the world record holder Burglinde Pollak of East Germany.The athlete recorded her fastest time for the hurdles then set career-best marks in the shot and high jump to lead the field by 301 points at the end of the first day but saw her advantage eroded in the long jump. A fourth place in the final event, the 200 metres, claimed gold and a world record by 10 points, or one-tenth of a second. Peters received death threats from religious extremists in Northern Ireland but ignored them and returned home to a civic reception in Belfast.She was made MBE in 1973 and CBE in 1990 for her services to sport and the community, and went on to make a significant contribution to athletics as an administrator, including acting as women's team manager at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.. Jack Straw was yesterday accused of putting at risk genuine victims of persecution and torture by calling for changes to the way refugees are treated under the Geneva Convention. The Home Secretary told a European Union conference that the convention needs redrafting to halt the upsurge in people-trafficking and to stop economic migrants.