Ashford set her first world record in July 1983, running 10.79 seconds in the 100.

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 ...

Track stars Bob Hayes, the only man to win an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring, Evelyn Ashford, 1980 hockey coach Herb Brooks, the 1984 U.S. men's gymnastics team, gymnast Shannon Miller ...