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| Full name | Alistair Fergus Murray | |||||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||||
| Born | 11 September 1942 | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Long-distance running | |||||||||||
| Event | 10,000 metres | |||||||||||
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Alistair Fergus Murray (born 11 September 1942) is a British long-distance runner. He educated at the High School of Dundee and the University of Edinburgh. [1]
He competed in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics. [2]
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