“Hitler declared Aryan supremacy by decree, but Jesse Owens is proving him a liar by degrees.” Owens took his third gold medal running the 200-meter race in record time, ahead of Mack ...

BERLIN - 1936 : Jesse Owens of the USA in action in the mens 200m at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany. Owens won a total of four gold medals in the Olympics, winning the mens ...

Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Munich. Owens' story is one of a high-profile sports star making a statement that transcended athletics, spilling over into the world of ...

His was a golden story of the 1936 Olympics in Germany. 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 ...

But disgust could not prevent American runner Jesse Owens from becoming the star of the games. Owens won four gold medals in all, setting world records in the 100- and 200-meter sprints ...

One man, five days of competition, four gold medals won. That equation should have been enough to make any athlete stand out in a crowd of his contemporaries. Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the ...

Caption J.C. 'Jesse' Owens possessed both elite speed and raw power, which he honed and blended on his way to winning four Olympic gold medals in 1936. Those impressive traits -- elite speed and ...

Not only did they not need a gold medal. Sometimes ... was left in the hands of another. Jesse Owens, an American, son of slaves on a cotton farm in Alabama, had already become champion in ...

In 10.3 seconds Jesse Owens' life would change forever ... become the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad and not only became a great in the ...

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 four gold medals in ...