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 ...

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 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 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.

Evelyn Ashford won the women`s 100-meter dash in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her time was 11.30 seconds. Willie Banks was third in the triple jump with a leap of 55-9 1/4, and Calvin Smith was fourth in ...

Evelyn Ashford got matters started when she broke the women’s mark held by Marlies Gohr of East Germany in 10.79 seconds. It was Ashford’s first world record and the time was two-hundredths of ...

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 had beaten Marlies Gohr (100m) and Marita Koch (200m) in the 1979 World Cup of Athletics and now she had Gohr’s 100 meters world record.