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 ...

Evelyn Ashford said she wanted it that way. She decided June 24 that the 100-meter race at the Mazda Indy Games the next night would be the finale to 18 extraordinary years as a sprinter. Ashford ...

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.

She set two world records (100m in 10.49 seconds and 200m in 21.34) and won three gold medals at the Seoul Olympics (100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay).

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 metres world record.

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.

Twice, including the Colorado victory, she toppled the 100 meters world record. “When I’m running fast, I feel like I’m weightless,” Ashford told Fortune magazine in 1991.

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. Already a subscriber? Log in. Limited time ...