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Jesse Owens | Biography, Olympics, Medals, & Facts

Jesse Owens, American track-and-field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. His four Olympic victories were a blow to Adolf Hitler’s intention to use the Games to demonstrate Aryan superiority. Learn more about Owens’s life and accomplishments in this article. ....

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Jesse Owens | Biography, Olympics, Medals, & Facts

Jesse Owens, byname of James Cleveland Owens, (born September 12, 1913, Oakville, Alabama, U.S. died March 31, 1980, Phoenix, Arizona), American track-and-field athlete who set a world record in the running broad jump (also called long jump) that stood for 25 years and who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. His four Olympic victories were a blow to Adolf Hitler’s intention to use the Games to demonstrate Aryan superiority. As a student in a Cleveland high school, Owens won three events at the 1933 National Interscholastic Championships in Chicago. In one day, May 25, 1935, while ....

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