For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon ... In the finals that afternoon, Long's fifth jump matched Owens' 25-10. But Owens leaped 26-3¾ on his next attempt and won ...

Jesse Owens’ place among the icons of sport is ... Long’s actions on August 4, 1936, the day of the Olympic long jump final, hardly suggested somebody blinded by the Nazis’ fanaticism.

One of Owens' four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics came in the long jump, in which Long won silver, according to a report ...

European champion in long jump in 1935, was one of those icons who did much more for the sport than winning a title that, in the end, was left in the hands of another. Jesse Owens, an American ...

At the 1956 Olympic Games, a 26-year-old Bell jumped 7.83m in challenging conditions to win by 15cm ahead of his compatriot John Bennett. Bell went on to secure silver at the Pan American Games in ...

Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from then ... winning gold medals in the 100- and 200- meter dashes, the long jump and on America's 4x100 relay team. Score it: Owens 4, Hitler 0.