LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Jesse Owens
built 634 days ago
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens, b. Danville, Ala., Sept. 12, 1913, d. Mar. 31, 1980, was a black American track star. Best remembered for his performance at the Berlin Olympics of 1936, Owens achieved the finest one-day showing in track history a year earlier. On May 25, 1935, he equaled the 100-yd (91.4-m) dash world record at 9.4 sec; then he set a new long-jump record of 8.13 m (26 ft 8.25 in) that stood for 25 years. He ... set records in the 220-yd (201.2-m) dash and 220-yd low hurdles with times of 20.3 sec and 22.6 sec, respectively. At the 1936 Olympics, which Adolf Hitler had proclaimed as the showcase for Aryan "supremacy, " Owens won the 100-m and 200-m races and the broad (long) jump and was on the winning 4 100-m relay team.
Source:
The Chicago defender carried an article which came from Berlin which reads: "Jesse Owens is the god of the sports fans here. He has effectively demonstrated his superiority in winning the finals in the 100 meter event in which he equaled the world's record and blasted the Olympic mark of Eddie Tolland, another race star, set back in 1932, over the 200-meter route". -Rhesus L. Perry
Source:
In 1936, a young athlete by the name of Jesse Owens shocked the world by winning an unprecedented four Gold Medals at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. Setting new Olympic records in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, long jump, and sharing the record in the 400-meter relay, Owens instantly established himself as an international hero and role model in the sport of Track and Field. With his great performance, he ... gloriously reaffirmed American pride and persistence in the midst of the Great Depression. By earning an eternal place in sports history, Jesse Owens helped open the door for African American athletes.
Source:
The youngest of ten children, James "Jesse" Owens defied the beliefs of racism in this country and around the world. In 1922, he moved to Cleveland and attended Fairmont Junior High School where he started his track career. He grew up mJesse" Owens defied the beliefs of racism in this country and around the world. In 1922, he moved to Cleveland and attended Fairmont Junior High School where he started his track career.
Source:
Jesse Owens has been regarded as perhaps the best known Olympic athlete of all time. The television sports network ESPN says, "...Owens' story is one of a high-profile sports star making a statement that transcended athletics, spilling over into the world of global politics." James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was born in 1913 in Oakville, Alabama in a time of unyielding segregation in America. Perhaps no one in the first half of the 20th Century did more to change the way the world and his country viewed black athletes and black citizens more than Jesse did. The youngest of ten children born to Henry, a poor sharecropper and son of a former slave, and Emma Owens, James was called "J.C." Times were tough for the Owens family.
Source:
Jesse Owens was born on September 12, 1913 in Danville, Alabama. He first gained national fame while still in high school where he was timed at 10.3 seconds in the 100 yard dash. While attending Ohio State University, he became known as `The Ebony Antelope.' Owens was a gifted athlete who combined his talents as a sprinter, hurdler, and broad jumper to experience what many have called, "the greatest single day in the history of man's athletic achievements." On May 25 1935, at the Big Ten Championships, in the span of about 70 minutes, he tied the world record for the 100-yard dash (with a clocking of 9.4 seconds) and set three world records (20.3 seconds in the 220 yd. dash, 22.6 seconds in the 220 yard low hurdles, and a leap of 268-1/4" in the long jump). On August 9, 1936, he performed the previously unthinkable when he won four Gold Medals at the Berlin Olympics in the same four events. This accomplishment was further magnified when Adolf Hitler refused to present him the medals.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Jesse Owens