Yvonne Murray
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's athletics | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Bronze | 1988 Seoul | 3000 metres | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1993 Toronto | 3000 m | |
| European Championships | |||
| Gold | 1990 Split | 3000 m | |
| Silver | 1994 Helsinki | 3000 m | |
| Bronze | 1986 Stuttgart | 3000 m | |
| Commonwealth Games | |||
| Silver | 1990 Auckland | 3000 m | |
| Bronze | 1986 Edinburgh | 3000 m | |
| Gold | 1994 Victoria | 10000 m | |
Yvonne Murray MBE (born October 4, 1964 in Musselburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish former middle distance track and road running athlete.
She won the bronze medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games for the 3,000m that were held in her hometown of Edinburgh. She then went on to win the bronze medal at the European Chamionships for the same event in the same year. In the Seoul Olympics in 1988 she also won a bronze medal for the 3000m. Her ultimate success came in 1990 with a gold medal in the European Championships for the 3,000m. It was almost two golds that year, as earlier, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand, she was pipped by 1 second to the gold medal by Canadian Angela Chalmers. However, she beat her countrywoman Liz McColgan in that race. In 1993 she won the World Indoor Championships again over 3,000m. Then in 1994, she won silver at the European Championships and then went on to win another gold medal in the 1994 Commonwealth Games, this time for the 10,000m. She was awarded an MBE in 1990.
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