Yvonne Mai-Graham
Yvonne Mai-Graham 
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 GDR Germany Jamaica 
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| birthday | 22nd August 1965 (age 55) | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Annaberg-Buchholz | ||||||||||||
| size | 171 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Medium and long distance running | ||||||||||||
| Best performance | 800 m: 1: 58.32 min 1500 m: 4: 01.84 min 3000 m: 8: 37.07 min |
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| society | BSG Progress Ehrenfriedersdorf SC Karl-Marx-Stadt (until 1988) SC Neubrandenburg (1989–1990) SC Empor Rostock (1991–1992) |
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| Trainer | Walter Gladrow (SC Neubrandenburg) | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
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Yvonne Mai-Graham (née Grabner ; born August 22, 1965 in Annaberg-Buchholz ) is a former German - Jamaican middle -distance runner whose specialty was the 1,500-meter distance . It started for the GDR until 1990 .
In 1989 she was fourth at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in The Hague and won bronze at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Budapest . At the European Athletics Championships in 1990 in Split, she was seventh. In 1991 she was sixth at the World Indoor Championships in Seville and came 13th at the World Championships in Tokyo .
In 1993 she married the 400-meter hurdler Winthrop Graham and took Jamaican citizenship. In 1995 she was world number two over 1500 meters behind the Irish Sonia O'Sullivan and was starting for Jamaica tenth at the World Championships in Gothenburg .
Yvonne Mai-Graham is 1.71 m tall and weighed 65 kg during her active time. Her first club was the company sports community progress Ehrenfriedersdorf, then she moved to SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and started from 1989 for SC Neubrandenburg under coach Walter Gladrow . From 1991 she competed for Empor Rostock . Her twin sister Yvette was also a middle-distance runner in GDR times and - first married to soccer player Dietmar Bletsch - won silver over 800 meters as Yvette Bletsch at the GDR championships in 1986 . The athlete with best times of 1: 59.43 min over 800 meters and 4: 05.12 min over 1500 meters later married Olympic hurdle winner Mark McKoy .
Personal best
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800 m : 1: 58.32 min, June 6, 1990, Jena
- Halle: 2: 02.26 min, February 19, 1988, East Berlin
- 1000 m : 2: 32.77 min, August 17, 1990, Berlin
- 1500 m: 4: 01.84 min, July 25, 1995, Monaco
- Hall: 4: 06.09 min, March 4, 1989, Budapest
- 1 mile : 4: 22.97 min, August 15, 1990, Zurich
- 2000 m : 5: 45.07 min, July 12, 1991, London
- 3000 m : 8: 37.07 min, August 16, 1995, Zurich
- 5000 m : 15: 07.91 min, September 1, 1995, in Berlin
literature
- Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 (published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft )
Web links
- Yvonne May Graham in the database of World Athletics (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Disgusted from the country. In: focus.de. August 29, 1994. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
- ↑ A Texan runs for Chemnitz. In: Freiepresse.de. June 24, 2015, accessed March 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Yvette Bletsch in the database of World Athletics (English)
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| SURNAME | Mai-Graham, Yvonne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grabner, Yvonne (maiden name); May, Yvonne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Jamaican middle-distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Annaberg-Buchholz |