Jesse Owens became an international superstar at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, winning four gold medals. Owens claimed gold in ...

Jesse Owens' legendary performance at the 1936 Summer Olympics has not been recounted quite like this. "Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics" – which premieres Wednesday night on History ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance ... Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics. But that was merely an appetizer for Owens. In one week in the summer of 1936, on the sacred ...

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.

Later, a second Olympic controversy arose when Jewish American athletes Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller were benched and replaced by African American athletes Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe in the ...

Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 were tainted and are remembered for so much more than his endeavours in athletics. Admittedly Owens was different to most of his rivals ...

Jesse Owens, an American, son of slaves on a cotton farm in Alabama, had already become champion in the 100 meters when on August 4, 1936, they met in front of the sandbox of the Olympic Stadium ...

German skaters Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger, Summer Olympics 1908 ... American runner Jesse Owens breaks the record in the 200m race and wins gold at the 1936 games in Berlin, Germany.

On Saturday, the long jump silver medal that Carl Ludwig “Luz” Long won at the Berlin 1936 Olympics was auctioned off by SCP Auctions. It was sold for $488,435 to become the most valuable ...

In one week in the summer of 1936, on the sacred soil of the Fatherland, the master athlete humiliated the master race. Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Munich. Owens ...