Jesse Owens relaxing at home in 1975 (Image: Getty Images) Jesse also won the 100 metre dash, the 200 metre sprint and the 100 metre relay - a body blow for Germany’s racist dictatorship.

Jesse Owens, in the late 1950s, poses with the four gold medals he won at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. | Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Despite unfair treatment at home after his Olympic victories ...

Luz, second of Owens, captured the long jump silver. Grandson of a slave and legendary athlete, “Jesse” Owens established 6 world records in 1935. “Jesse” Owens retained his 100m world record for 20 ...

Long and American Jesse Owens' friendship, forged at the Berlin Olympics, is one of sport's most enduring images. As Jeremy Schaap recently wrote, the Third Reich turned the 1936 Olympics into "a ...

Jesse Owens became an international superstar at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, winning four gold medals. Owens claimed gold in the 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m relay and long jump. On the latest episode of ...

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 ...

I said, at the home of Jesse Owens, that's unacceptable. KRAMER: People in Northeast Ohio idolize more contemporary sports stars, like basketball's LeBron James and 1960s football great Jim Brown.