USA Track & Field has named Chesapeake native Grant Holloway the 2024 Jesse Owens Athlete of the Year. The former Grassfield ...

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the ...

Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon in 1935 would be the accomplishment of a lifetime. In 45 minutes, he established three world records and tied another. Owens won four gold medals in ...

Grant Holloway has recently won the highest USATF honor and Noah Lyles could not be more happy about the same. The post Noah ...

Video: Jesse Owens 1936 Olympic gold medal that enraged Hitler up goes up for auction more than 70 years on One of the four gold medals won by African-American athlete Jesse Owens at the 1936 ...

(ATR) Jesse Owens struggled financially following ... Ron Burkle, co-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team, won the first medal and promised to send it on a tour of historical memorabilia.

Jesse Owens, while competing as a member ... as other athletes racked up impressive Olympic medal totals. In 1972, swimmer Mark Spitz won seven golds in Munich. Four years later, comparisons ...

One man, five days of competition, four gold medals won. That equation should have been enough to make any athlete stand out in a crowd of his contemporaries. Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the ...

Jesse Owens set three world records and tied a fourth in a span of 45 minutes at the 1935 Big Ten meet for OSU and won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

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 ...