Ashford, Evelyn

LC control no.	n 90645738
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Ashford, Evelyn *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Located	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Birth date	1957-04-15
Place of birth	Shreveport (La.)
Affiliation	University of California, Los Angeles
Profession or occupation	Track and field athletes Olympic athletes
Found in	Coaching Evelyn, 1991: CIP galley (Evelyn Ashford; U.S. Olympic gold medal runner) African American National Biography, accessed November 25, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Ashford, Evelyn; track and field athlete, Olympic Medalist; born 15 April 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States; entered UCLA with an athletic scholarship (1975); won individual Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women national championships (1977); finished first at the TAC Championships, Pan-American Games, and World Cup (1979); won seventeen of eighteen outdoor sprint finals at the TAC Championships and the World Cup (1981); named female Athlete of the Year by Track & Field News; set her first world record at the U.S. National Sports Festival in Colorado (1983); earned two gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympic Games (1984); named Track & Field News Athlete of the Year and her race in Zurich was named Performance of the Year (1984); won her third gold medal at the Seoul Olympic Games (1988); received the Flo Hyman Trophy from the Women's Sports Foundation (1989); won her fourth gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games (1992); elected to the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame (1997), the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame (2006) and the new Sacramento Sports Hall of Fame (2007)
Associated language	eng