The Ohio Athletic Association Track and Field State Tournament took place at Ohio State’s Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium this past weekend.

The two-day 2025 OHSAA track and field championships will be held Friday, June 6 and Saturday, June 7 at Jesse Owens Memorial ...

Compiled By Gary R. Rasberry. Izzy Zahn's first jump gave her the championship. Her final jump put the icing on the cake. The Coldwater senior easily won her second straight Division III long jump ...

When: May 28 (field events 4 p.m., running events 5:30 p.m.) and May 30 (field events 4 p.m., running events 5:30 p.m.). What’s next: The top four finishers in each event qualify for the state ...

In 1964, Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan made the movie Jesse Owens Returns To Berlin. In this movie Jesse Owens narrates his experience to Kai, Lutz Long’s son, and explains what had happened ...

It was 1936 Berlin and 21-year-old Jesse Owens had beaten his new pal Luz Long, 23, to the gold medal in the long jump - breaking the world record with a jump of 8.06 metres.

FILE - Germany’s Luz Long and the United States’ Jesse Owens pictured together at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Owens captured 4 gold medals, 100m, 200m, 4x100m and long jump.

Luz Long's mantra that "sometimes you just have to follow your heart" is exactly what the German long jumper did in defying Nazi leaders by hugging Jesse Owens in one of sport's most iconic ...

The 1936 Berlin Olympics was the start of a long-lasting bond between the families of American track and field legend Jesse Owens and German long jumper, Carl Ludwig Hermann “Luz” Long.

Image caption, Julia Kellner-Long (left) and Marlene Dortch (right) - granddaughters of Luz Long and Jesse Owens respectively - present long jump medals at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.