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James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. [3]Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history". [4]
Jesse Owens: 1933 9.4 Equalled world record, set US high school record Mel Patton: 1948 9.3 Official world record James Jackson Alameda High School, Alameda, California, 1954 9.4 Equalled US high-school record Ken Irvine: 1961 9.3 Equalled professional 100-yard world record Harry Jerome: 1962 9.2
[28] [29] His gold at the World Championships and his other fast times earned him the number one ranking in the world that year, despite Calvin Smith's world record. At the TAC Championships on June 19, he set a new low-altitude record in the long jump, 8.79 m (28 ft 10 in) [ 25 ] and earned the world number one ranking in that event. [ 30 ]
The horse is needed to race against Jesse Owens, Olympic Champion.” Berlin, 1936: Jesse Owens of the USA in action in the men’s 200 meter at the Summer Olympic Games. Owens won four gold medals.
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The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The final was won by 0.4 seconds by American Jesse Owens, with silver going to Mack Robinson (brother of baseball's Jackie Robinson). [2] Owens thus reached 3 gold medals in 1936 (along with the 100 metres and long jump), with the sprint relay still to ...
IAAF-ratified world record progression for the men's 100 m. In 1977 the IAAF began requiring fully automatic timing, accounting for both the increase in measured times and the decrease in measurement uncertainty.
English: Grave of Jesse Owens (1913–1980) at Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago. Stone reads: "Jesse Owens. ... Kilometers per hour: Speed of GPS receiver: 0: Reference ...