Jesse Owens

- Birth date: September 12, 1913
- Birth Place: Lawrence County, Alabama
- Nickname: The Buckeye Bullet
- Height: 5' 10"
- Weight: 165 lbs
- Occupation: Track star, sports promoter, motivational speaker
- Son of a sharecropper and the grandson of a slave
- Voted the AP greatest track and field star for the first half of the 20th century
- A street in Berlin was renamed in his honor
- Death date: March 31, 1980

Jesse Owens was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany; one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 meter relay team.

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  At the 1936 Olympics, against a backdrop of swastikas and goose-stepping storm troopers, an African-American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four gold medals and si...
  
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  Track star Jesse Owens is astonished by a fat soldier who equals Owens- world record for 100m.
  
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- Jesse Owens: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) - $35.00
  
  In an era far removed from the African American celebrity athletes of today, Olympic great Jesse Owens achieved fame by running faster and jumping farther than anyone in the world....
  
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