When Jesse Owens returned to the United States after his stunning performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he should’ve been welcomed as a national hero. He’d won four gold medals and captured ...

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay and the long jump – made him a track and field great.

The 1936 Olympics were held in Berlin, and new German chancellor Adolf Hitler envisioned it as a chance to showcase the Aryan "master race." Then came record-smashing African-American Jesse Owens.

Jesse Owens is best remembered as the sprinter and long jumper who won four gold medals at the politically charged 1936 Berlin Olympics. And yet his greatest day as an athlete was May 25, 1935, when ...

In 1936, Jesse Owens becomes the first American to win four Olympic gold medals as the United States sets a world record in the 4×100 relay at the Berlin Games. The record time of 39.8 seconds… ...

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin has formally presented its bid to rehost the Olympics in the same stadium where Jesse Owens starred during the 1936 Games under the Nazis.

From Jesse Owens to Bob Beamon to Carl Lewis and plenty more, Americans have ruled the men's long jump throughout the history of the Summer Olympics, but there was no one from the United States in ...