Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down the track ... Olympic athletes will begin competing for the kinds of world records and fame Owens achieved 88 years ago when he ...

For most athletes, 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 ...

Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track, all of this a year after breaking three track world records and tying a fourth in the Big Ten Championships when he was a student at The Ohio State ...

Jesse Owens won the 100-meter race at the 1936 Olympics in 10.3 seconds. Photograph by ULLSTEIN BILD VIA GETTY IMAGES A lightweight shoe like the one that Usain Bolt wore to set the world record ...

Jesse Owens, an American ... given that the required mark was almost one meter shorter than the world record that Jesse had achieved a year ago in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In fact, despite the ...

The most famous athlete of his time, his stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace ...

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Jesse Owens won gold medals in the 100m, 200m, long jump, and 4x100m, setting a world record in the latter. Owens, who died in 1980, was among the first ...

PHOENIX — Jesse Owens was a record-breaking athlete who gained international fame, breaking barriers in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. But for Gina Hemphill-Strachan, the Medal of Freedom ...

For most athletes, 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. But that was ...