If you're an American track and field fan of a certain age or just a fan of its history, you certainly know Florence Griffith-Joyner and her sister-in-law, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, two women who set ...

(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 ...

"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 ...