After Owens was given a gold medal for the 100-meter sprint ... This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as ...

Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down ... the kinds of world records and fame Owens achieved 88 years ago when he won four gold medals. Returning home aboard the Queen ...

Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon in 1935 would be the accomplishment of a lifetime. In 45 minutes, he established three world records and tied another. Owens won four gold medals in ...

BERLIN - 1936 : Jesse Owens of the USA in action in the mens 200m at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany. Owens won a total of four gold medals in the Olympics, winning the mens ...

One man, five days of competition, four gold medals won. That equation should have been enough to make any athlete stand out in a crowd of his contemporaries. Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the ...

In 10.3 seconds Jesse Owens' life would change forever ... on to become the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad and not only became a great in ...

J.C. 'Jesse' Owens possessed both elite speed and raw power, which he honed and blended on his way to winning four Olympic gold medals in 1936. Those impressive traits -- elite speed and raw power ...

Jesse Owens, born in Oakville, Alabama, in 1913, was a track and field athlete who became a global icon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. As an African American comp ...

Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Munich. Owens' story is one of a high-profile sports star making a statement that transcended athletics, spilling over into the world of ...

In 10.3 seconds Jesse Owens' life would change forever ... on to become the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad and not only became a great in ...