(Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

For the first time, two 100-meter dash records fell in one day on this date in 1983 during the National Sports Festival at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Evelyn Ashford got ...

"Changed the Game" is a Yahoo Sports series dedicated to the women who are often overlooked, under-appreciated or simply deserve more flowers for their contributions to women's sports history. If ...

April 14 (Reuters) - 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 ...