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 ...

has earned the Jesse Owens Athlete of the Year Award. Grant Holloway receives key to Chesapeake in celebration of Olympic Gold Medal The award, given out annually by USA Track & Field (USATF), is ...

Track Coach Ralph Metcalfe and Olympic Star Jesse Owens at the at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin: Text attached to photograph reads: "Owens in his first victory. Berlin... Jesse Owens, of Ohio State ...

Berlin's Olympic stadium is best remembered for African American Jesse Owens four golds in 1936, amidst Nazi propaganda promoting "Aryan racial superiority". They've even named a road after him in ...

Jesse Owens was one the biggest Olympic heroes of all time. When he took four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Germany, it ...

At the 1956 Olympic Games, a 26-year-old Bell jumped 7.83m in challenging conditions to win by 15cm ahead of his compatriot ...

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 ...

Also Read: Top 10 USA Olympics track victories ever, including Jesse Owens and Wilma Rudolph Another downer on Friday was defending 50-meter freestyle gold medalist Caeleb Dressel finishing a ...

Greg Bell was the world's leading men's long jumper of the 1950s. As well as winning the Olympic title in Melbourne, his ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one ... he established three world records and tied another. Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics. But that was merely an appetizer for ...