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She finished seventh at the 1983 World Championships and the 1984 Summer Olympics.
She finished seventh at the 1983 World Championships and the 1984 Summer Olympics.
She also participated at the 1988 Olympics, but did not reach the final. She represented the clubs OSC Dortmund and television Wattenscheid. This ranks her tenth among German old-type-javelin throwers, behind Petra Felke (who held the world record), Antje Kempe, Silke Renk, Beate Koch, Karen Forkel, Tanja Damaske, Ruth Fuchs, Ingrid Thyssen and Susanne Jung.
Beate Peters is openly lesbian and lives with retired heptathlete Sabine Braun.