Yvonne Graham (née Grabner, formerly Mai; born 22 August 1965) is a retired female middle distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres. She represented East Germany and later Germany, before attaining Jamaican citizenship in 1993. She won a bronze medal at the 1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Graham was born in Annaberg-Buchholz, Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt. Under her maiden name of Yvonne Grabner, she first came to prominence in 1983 competing for East Germany, winning a bronze medal at the 1983 European Junior Championships. Later, she married fellow East German athlete, Volker Mai. While competing as Yvonne Mai, she won a bronze medal at the 1989 World Indoor Championships. She competed for East Germany until 1990 and then a United Germany. In 1993 she married Jamaican 400 m hurdler Winthrop Graham and obtained Jamaican citizenship. She holds the Jamaican national records for 1500 metres, mile, and 3000 metres.
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1983 | European Junior Championships | Schwechat, Austria | 3rd | 1500m | |
1989 | European Indoor Championships | The Hague, Netherlands | 4th | 1500 m | |
Budapest, Hungary | 3rd | 1500 m | |||
World Cup | Barcelona, Spain | 3rd | 1500 m | ||
1990 | Split, Yugoslavia | 7th | 1500 m | ||
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1991 | Seville, Spain | 6th | 1500 m | ||
Tokyo, Japan | 13th | 1500 m | |||
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1995 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 10th | 1500 m |