Evelyn Ashford gets her moment at 1984, 1988 Olympics At the '84 Games in Los Angeles, Ashford finally got her moment, winning her long-awaited gold in an Olympic record 10.97 seconds.

Evelyn Ashford gets her moment at 1984, 1988 Olympics At the '84 Games in Los Angeles, Ashford finally got her moment, winning her long-awaited gold in an Olympic record 10.97 seconds.

From Evelyn Ashford to Julien Alfred, Olympic women’s 100-metre champions of the last four decades Elaine Thompson-Herah is the only woman to win the “sprint double” in two Olympics ...

Olympic gold medal winner Evelyn Ashford on Wednesday praised sponsors and volunteer workers of the 13th annual Orlando Sentinel Golden South Classic for helping develop youth athletes. “Florida ...

Evelyn Ashford remembered the track meet surprisingly well considering it took place 17 years ago. She was 15, and a talented high school sprinter from Athens, Ala., but had no competitive ...

On a warm July 1983 day in the Colorado mountains, a slender American woman literally reached the peak of female sprinting when she smashed the women's 100 metres world record that German athletes ...

Evelyn Ashford had beaten Marlies Gohr (100m) and Marita Koch (200m) in the 1979 World Cup of Athletics and now she had Gohr's 100 metres world record. The Louisiana-born, California-raised ...

But one of Griffith-Joyner's three gold medals from the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics, the Games that made her a superstar, came in large part thanks to a woman who doesn't get nearly the same amount of ...

From finishing fifth in the 100 metres at the 1976 Montreal Olympic to winning gold in the 4x100 metres relay at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics at age 35, Ashford represented her country well and the ...