Ashford vs Drechsler 200m 1986

Evelyn Ashford and Heike Drechsler clash over 200m at the Brussels Grand Prix, September 1986.

A week prior to this race Heike Drechsler had equalled the 200m world record at the European Championships in Stuttgart. There, running in unfavourable conditions, Drechsler had stormed to 21.71s, a time which both she (once) and Marita Koch (twice) had recorded previously.

Here, in an end-of-season 200m race, she took on 100m world record holder Evelyn Ashford. Ashford was better known as a 100m runner, but enjoyed the 200m distance. Curiously enough, when Ashford and Koch met over 200m in 1979, it was just two months after Koch had first set the world record.

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