Yvonne Carole Grace Murray-Mooney (née Murray, born 4 October 1964), is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won a bronze medal in the 3000 metres at the 1988 Olympic Games, and gold medals at this distance at the 1987 European Indoor Championships, the 1993 World Indoor Championships and the 1990 European Championships. She also won a gold medal in the 10,000 metres at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. Her 3000 metres best of 8:29.02 was set in the Olympic Final of 1988. Biography Yvonne Murray was born on 4 October 1964 in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. Murray was initially a Hockey player for Musselburgh Grammar School prior to taking up athletics in 1979. Murray first competed on the international stage as a 16 year old representing Scotland at the 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Madrid, where she finished 79th in the senior women's race. Later that year she represented Great Britain at the European Junior Championships in Utrecht, Holland where she finished 6th in the 3000m event. Murray's first major senior championship appearance was at aged 18 years, where she finished 10th in both the 1500m and 3000m finals at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. Her first major athletics medal was a bronze in the 3000m event at the 1985 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Piraeus, Greece. In 1986, she won the silver medal in the 3000m event at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Madrid, a bronze medal in the 3000m event at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and a bronze medal again in the 3000m event at the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart. In 1987 she broke the championship record to win the 3000m at the 1987 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Lievin. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, she won a bronze medal in the 3000m event, having taken the race on at 500m from the finish line. The winner, Tetyana Samolenko of the Soviet Union, tested positive for PEDS in 1993 and received a two year ban from the sport. Murray never had her Olympic medal upgraded. In 1989 Murray won the 3000m event at the IAAF Grand Prix Final in Monaco and at the IAAF World Cup in Barcelona while representing Europe, becoming the first UK Female athlete to win a World Cup track event. In January 1990, at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland, she won