Evelyn Ashford 100m World Record 1984 

Evelyn Ashford. America's unrecognised Track and Field Legend.

I love watching Evelyn run. It's like poetry in motion

She's a hero...no drugs on her.she should be the best greatest athlete above all...most natural.God bless you Evelyne.❤️❤️🙏

Evelyn Ashford should go down in history as the greatest sprinter of all time. She was not only a clean runner, but she was damned fast. And, as you saw here,she was extremely competitive. All young women sprinters today should have her picture on their wall.

Ashford is the most graceful, beautiful, talented runner in history. She absolutely floats across the track. Amazing.

Ashford was absolutely amazing to me! She regularly had to beat known cheats. The woman was downright fast!

Ms Ashford was a pure runner & her competitive spirit was equally pure. I watch her during her UCLA days until her last race & she evolved from an untrained pure runner to the MOST disciplined pure runner during her time. Ms Ashford was dedicated to the sport & most importantly dedicated to accomplishing her goals. I wish she was able to compete in 1980, that would have been the time she would have won her first gold medal. I hope all is well with Ms Ashford, she was the greatest in her time.

Evelyn Ashford was a class act. Phenomenal!

She was just so doggone smooth. Even with a poor start, she never let it show. She just motors those muscular, brown legs down that track!

I watched this as a senior in high school and cried! What a class act!!!

I admire the way the two East Germans went up to congratulate Evelyn that record could would not have been possible unless you have a tough field of competitors.

It does me much good to see the many fans come and watch this video and post such positive remarks about Evelyn.I hope she knows how much real track fans appreciate her as a great athlete,person and role model for our youngsters.Thanks Evelyn !

Evelyn...pure class, poetry in motion..

I can't stop loving Evelyn, so pristine, so sweet! great athlete.

Use to love watching her run! One of the greatest sprinters of all time in my humble opinion.

She was adorable and darling. I loved her child like reaction to her world record. It was so genuine. Sweetness.

What makes this record more amazing, Ms. Ashford just became pregnant at the time, if you consider that her daughter was born full term, end of May 1985.

Every respected athletics experts cites Evelyn Ashford as one of the greatest CLEAN sprinters of all time. This is indisputable.

Awesome run by Evelyn. Pure speed. Greatest ever!

One of the greatest athletes ever. Brilliant woman.

Love to see the interactions between Gohr and Ashford at the end of the video.

What a sporting reaction from Marlies Gohr.

THANKS! PeteThomason a million times over. I remember watching this live and I enjoy each time I watch it as if it were my first. Regarding the comments re doping, whatever happened, it's still one of the best performances in the world of track and field. Evelyn ran like a veritable gazelle and goes down in my book as the most fluid and beautiful sprinters of all time.

Lovely woman, beautiful and elegant runner, classy lady

You can see in this footage why Evelyn Ashford won this race. Look at her leg stride compared to Gohr the(East German Robot) Evelyns a natural sprinter with long flowing strides in her step whereas Gohr is a muscle pounding strider with all her steroid injections with quick short strides!! A classic example of Pure sprinting talent vs. the Chemical enhanced athletes! There has never been a more natural, blessed sprinter than Evelyn Ashford! In my book the greatest female sprinter of all time! I think she's the last of an era of TRUE sprinters without chemical enhancement!

YES! Greatest American Female Sprinter of All time.

Fastest female of all time without doping, simply poetry in motion and I truly believed Evelyn love chasing down the competition.

she's still my favorite. she was a lady all the way and very humble.

Awesome sprinting from Ashford.

thanks so much - i remember watching this on tv back in '84!

Evelyn was pure clean talent. Much respect.

Evelyn Ashford will remain to me an absolutely all time greatest woman sprinter. And look at her body size and height. What a pocket rocket!

Watching Evelyn run today 8/13/22 still gives me goosebumps. She deserves more accolades from USA track and field because when she raced she gave her all and left it on the track. This race and the 1988 race when she snatched that East German down the stretch in the 4x100 are just awesome.

Anybody know what Ashford is up to now? Man I remember as a kid, I lived to watch her. The excitement, the anticipation, the nervousness........I loved her. A good clean runner and beautiful lady!

Ashford was unreal.

Never knew of this amazing woman until watching the women's 4x100 relay with Flo. I tip my hat to you also Evelyn, you were outstanding and I'm so proud of you

Evelyn Ashford, my all time favourite. Simply the best!!!

I was in school when she ran, this is what you called running clean. From 1 fromer althlete ,Evelyn you have been and stiil are an inspiration to me

Evelyn was so smooth; similar to Carl Lewis, and Allyson Felix in style.

Evelyn Ashford - Olympic Golden!

OMG the days of the cold war clashes! The stakes felt so much higher then. East vs West. We boycotted the 80s games in Moscow and they boycotted the 84 games in LA then you had this clash and others on the world stage we missed out during the two games. Whew...the first games with both sides back in were the 88 games. Ashford anchoring the 4X100 in 88 is probably one of her most exciting races. Evelyn was the queen of sprinting for a long time until FloJo's 88 season. Ashford was still the better relay runner and thats why she anchored. Probably one of the most thrilling 4X100's ever.

Awesome! I remember watching this when it aired live. Evelyn Ashford rocks!!😊😷

my all time favorite olympic athlete love Evelyn

Thank you Thomason for sharing. What's amazing is Ashford's start off the blocks - and still getting the WR. If her start was about the same as the first three sprinters off the block, she may have had 10.73 s

I was there watching Evelyn in person 😍

Love to watch her fly ....beautifully effortless with determination and no muscles!!

Ashford really proved, that she was the true Olympic Champion in 1984. She won in LA, then took on Gohr in Zurich just a few weeks later. Gohr showed true sportsmanship after the race, and Ashford was truly the queen of the sprints, at least until Florence Griffith-Joyner came along.

That was damn good quality for a recording on VHS tape.

Look at that sportsmanship from the Germans congratulating her, not so much nowadays.

Evelyn Ashford, the last female 100m World and Olympic Champion not on PEDs.

I am not sure where you get your information from but Ashford was very clean. There was never ever testing that stated other wise. She simply was pure talent and wonderful technique. Please don't let your hating ways blind you to what was the truth.

What sportsmanship! you don't see that anymore. What a smooth runner.

Evelyn - THE QUEEN ON THE TRACK !!!

evelyn ashford, legend.

wow Evelyn reminds me of today's Shelly Ann Fraser, she is tiny but had quick leg speed. Amaxing

She was superb. She was clean. A graceful and beautiful athlete and a gracious and beautiful person. You and BS are clearly well acquainted.

Evelyn Ashford incomparable grace, speed and femininity for very long decades!

DAMN! Evelyn Ashford is such a BAD ASS!!! Amazing athlete !!!

Miss Evelyn ROCKS. Case closed...

Evelyn Ashford 👍👍 the Greatest 100 m women all the time

love this woman

Evelyn Ashford!!! I can't stop loving her ways on the tracts. It was this particular East German girl who had already taken off in the last leg at the 1988 Soeul Olympics 4×100 relay that she dealt with again. Evelyn ran the race of her entire life and purchased that gold for America. It was awesome indeed. The whole world stood still for her. By the time Florence Griffith Joyner handed the baton to her, the Russian and East German girls had already taken off and ahead of her. How Evelyn won that race is still a big mystery.

Evelyn Ashford was one of the best of all time ran like Black Silk "The Come Back Kid 🥰🥰🥰 is what they called her 😀

thanx for posting

Evelyn running style is similar to shelly ann of Jamaica..they are short but have amazing leg speed and long strides..

Legendary!!!

the strongest and longest-lived American sprinter of all time

It was easy to tell when an athlete was doping. They always had a dramatic jump in their times. Evelyn was fast right out of the womb. She was as pure as the driven snow. Hehehehe!!! Love you Evelyn!!!!!1

Evelyn appeared to get a very average start here yet managed to run a 10.76 ? , OMG. A 10.7 100 Meters is actually a kick-ass time for a Superman. We should now refer to Evelyn Ashford as Super Woman.

It's amazing that a world record could be achieved with such a poor start.

What a athlete Evelyn Ashford was, greatest sprinter ever .🐐🐐🐐

Ashford most certainly was NOT on drugs. I think Marlies Gohr was talented and made even more talented by the aid of drugs...but she knew - as did Marita Koch - that Evelyn would prevail most of the time...even though Evelyn usually had bad starts like she did here. The reaction of people on the infield is telling...but Marlies (and the other East Germans) did show surprising sportsmanship here with congratulating Evelyn - she knew Evelyn had her number like she did in 1988 relay anchor leg!

Excellent sportsmanship by Gohr Great race. Ashford was the best in the World until '88 with Flo Jo setting the 100 and 200 that still stands.

Evelyn Ashford did not get the real recognition she deserved.

..She really knew Ashford was the Best!!! Maybe last clean WR..Just wish she would have run more 200s. Her better race...

She was phenomenal !! Damn

She was completely left in the blocks and was almost a meter down. But she still caught the completely drugged up Gohr and still set the WR. 10.77 is still extremely fast by today's standards but this was on a slower track with slower shoes in Europe where the air and wind and temperature conditions are never as conducive to fast sprinting as they are in the U.S. This was a great performance by one of the nicer T&F athletes of that era.

I remember watching her run when I was a teenager. Time has made me appreciate her even more because she was so good, yet humble and quiet unlike some of the more attention seeking personalities we've seen since then.

People forget before Flo Jo was Eveyln Ashford. She was short but had such great strides

Wow she ran past that dude near the line.

I remember Evelyn Ashford. She made running look effortless. She always seemed to just glide by her competition. A true blue track runner with no scandal. She is much beloved and the first woman to run under 11 seconds.

The best clean runner of the era.

Superb! Phenomenal! Fantastic!

I remember watching this race on TV. As the GDR boycotted the Olympic Games in LA, Evelyn's Olympic title was challenged in Zurich. But she gave the best answer possible by winning.

I remember this race so well. It was astonishing that she not only broke her own world record but also win so convincingly against the invincible East European female athletes. This was the race that validated the triumph the American had in 1984. Unfortunately for American, the clean image was tarnished by Flo-Jo (and later Marion Jones) whose drastic performance improvement in 1988 and sudden retirement made very few believe that she was clean, and more so in that she probably took more PEDs than the documented GDRs. Ashford finished far behind Flo-Jo for the second place in Seoul. Without Flo-Jo's sudden rise in 1988, Ashford would have won the final cold-war era Olympic gold as a world record holder, and undoubtedly the greatest of all time unless Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce can win in Tokyo. Her record would have stood until late 90s and the progression would also become more nature.

Queen Evelyn! And to think this race was shorty after the Olympics while Gohr was fresh! Total ownage!

My Favorite Olympian!! Evelyn Ashford. Gorh was all steroid up..

Except for Evelyn, all the other runners in the race was on roids. And yet it was Evelyn who won the 100m in a world record time. And all this even though she had the worst start of all the runners. Evelyn Ashford was really 30-40 years ahead of her time. Till today, even with better supplements, training and technology, the world's best women's 100m runners are struggling to beat 11 seconds. And yet here in 1984, Evelyn had just set the world record of 10.76 by pure talent, hard work and determination.

As blown away as I am by FloJo's absolute dominance of the sport when she reached her prime, Evelyn Ashford is still my favorite female sprinter of all time. The gazelle-like beauty of her form, her cheetah-like strength, speed, and concentration, and her tough but generous disposition on the track is a genius combination. All these years later, still a big fan of her amazing athletic legacy and sportsmanship.

Drugs vs natural talent.

Evelin , the best SPRINTER OF ALL TIMES... !!!!!...The worst start, but the best arrival. TESTOSTEFLORENCE?????....ONLY A SHADOW SAD IN THE SPORT ..

10.77 with a slow start crazy!!!

Much Appreciation.

Loved Evelyn. The whole world was watching because they thought Evelyn had won in LA because of the Soviet boycott and the absence of the East Germans. All the betting was on the drugged up Gohr but Evelyn came from behind and whipped her ass!

As far as i am concerned Evelyn Ashford still has the world record. She ran DRUG FREE.

proof that you dont need drugs!

This is how you do it! You got your gold when some of your key competitors couldn't come. So, you go open a can of whup ass on them in WR time right after! The mental toughness of Evelyn Ashford. My all-time fav.

and she had a bad start 10.6 and she was clean

I keep on watching ds...congrats always miss evelyn

Ashford fantastic runner was Ashford injured the last time they meet in 83 word finals ,shame the world championship where every 4 years then.this was a good rival between these two