Ashford's anchor leg in the 4x100 meter relay final, pulling away from East German Marlies Göhr, is the stuff of legend. Griffith-Joyner and Ingrid Lange, the third leg for East Germany, were ...

Ashford was fifth in the Olympic 100 meters at age 19, first at 27, second at 31, a semifinalist at 35. Her best Olympics might have come at age 23, but the U.S. boycotted those 1980 Games in Moscow.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Evelyn Ashford (Sacramento, California) set a world record in the women’s 100m on July 3, 1983 and was overwhelmingly voted by fans as winner of the 15th USATF Throwback Athlete of the ...