Peters first came to national prominence winning a bronze medal in the Girls' canoe sprint at the
2010 Summer Youth Olympics in
Singapore. This was followed in rapid succession by a slew of medals in Junior and U23 World and European championships. In 2011, she won the K-1 1000 metres at the European Junior Canoe Sprint Championships in
Zagreb,
Croatia. Later that month, she won silver medals in the K-1 500 and K-1 1000 metres at the World Junior Canoe Sprint Championships in
Brandenburg an der Havel,
Germany. In 2012, she won both the K-1 500 and K-1 1000 metres titles at the European Junior Canoe Sprint Championships in
Montemor-o-Velho,
Portugal. In July 2016, four years after winning the European title K-1 500 metres as a junior, she crowned herself European champion over that same distance in the U23 category at the 2016 European U23 Canoe Sprint Championships in
Plovdiv,
Bulgaria. Two days later, she added a silver medal to her collection finishing 2nd in the K-1 200 metres at the same championships. At the end of that month of July, at the World U23 Canoe Sprint Championships in
Minsk,
Belarus, she won silver in the K-1 500 metres. In June 2017, she prolonged her European title K-1 500 metres at the 2017 European U23 Canoe Sprint Championships in
Belgrad,
Serbia. Having formed a duo K-2 with
Lize Broekx since 2012, she won a first international medal at the senior level in an olympic discipline by winning the bronze medal in the K-2 500 metres at the 2018 European Canoe Sprint Championships in
Belgrad,
Serbia. At the same European championships, she added a bronze medal to her tally by finishing third in the non-olympic discipline of the K-1 5000 metres. She qualified for the
women's K-2 500 metres, and
women's K-1 500 metres events at the
2020 Summer Olympics in
Tokyo,
Japan by finishing 4th in the A final of the
women's K-2 500 metres at the
2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in
Szeged,
Hungary. At the Olympics, she finished 6th resp. 9th in the women's K-1 500 metres and K-2 500 metres. After the
COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the kayaking seasons 2020 and 2021, Peeters and Broekx showed that they belonged henceforth to the world's best by winning in quick succession two bronzes resp. a silver medal at the
2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in
Copenhague,
Denmark, the
2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in
Dartmouth,
Canada and the
2022 Canoe Sprint European Championships in
Munich,
Germany. In 2023, Peters and Broekx qualified for the
2024 Summer Olympics in
Paris,
France by finishing just outside the medals in 4th place in the K-2 500 metres at the
2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in
Duisburg,
Germany. At those
2024 Summer Olympics, she finished 5th in the
women's K-2 500 metres and 7th in the
Women's K-1 500 metres. ==References==