Jesse Owens had an unmatched performance at the 1935 Big Ten ... Owens started with equalling the 100-yard dash world record in 9.4 seconds before he set the world record with a 8.13-meter ...

On this day in 1936, at the Olympic Games in Berlin, track and field star Jesse Owens shattered Hitler’s white supremacist propaganda in his own country.. When Owens arrived in Germany’s ...

OWENS, JESSE (12 September 1913-31 March 1980), was a world record setting track-and-field athlete during the 1930s.In 1950 sportswriters voted him as the world's top track star of the century. Born ...

Ninety years ago, Jesse Owens made history by producing the "greatest 45 minutes ever in sport." On May 25, 1935, Owens set four world records in 45 minutes at the Big Ten Championships in Ann ...

Ohio State's Jesse Owens turns in possibly the best one-day track and field performance in history when he sets three world records and ties another in a 45-minute span.

Jesse Owens, Ohio State track marvel, shown as he won the 220-yard dash, beating the world's record by 3/10 of a second, and his nearest competitor, Andy Dooley of Iowa, by ten yards, at the 1935 ...

The Jesse Owens plaque at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor. From 1906 to 1926 this historic field was used as the home for Michigan football and is also the site where Owens broke four world records in ...

Jesse Owens set three world records—and tied a fourth—in college. Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. | United Archives/GettyImages.

Jesse Owens became the first person to win four gold medals at an Olympics when he managed to do so at the ... A week earlier he had set a new world record in the broad jump by jumping 24 feet 11 ...

Jesse Owens ran the first leg of the 4x100 relay as he and American teammates Foy Draper, Ralph Metcalfe and Frank Wykoff sprinted to victory with a world-record time of 39.8 seconds.

"These world-record results showcase the amazing story of Luz Long, the most Courageous Olympian," said David Kohler, the president of SCP Auctions. About a year ago, Bill Russell's Olympic gold ...

The world record-breaking track athlete, who famously went up against Hitler’s ideologies and the dictator himself at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, kept his family life separate from his sports career.