2020 - All rights reservedTM © Olympic Channel Services S.L. He raced against cars and horses, and, for a time, played with the Harlem Globetrotters.Owens eventually found his calling in public relations and marketing, setting up a business for himself in Chicago, Illinois, and traveling frequently around the country to speak at conventions and other business gatherings.Owens died of lung cancer in Tucson, Arizona, on March 31, 1980. He won the 100m in 10.30 seconds, the 200m in 20.70 seconds, and then the long jump, with an impressive leap of 8.06 metres – apparently after getting some advice about his run-up from a German competitor, Luz Long. Jesse Owens was the most successful athlete—of any race. After Owens won the 100-meter event, a furious Hitler stormed out of the stadium, though some reports indicate that Hitler later congratulated the athlete on his success.While Owens helped the United States triumph at the games, his return home was not met with the kind of fanfare one might expect. Still, he was expected to work, and at the young age of seven he was picking up to 100 pounds of cotton a day to help his family put food on the table.At the age of nine, Owens moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where the young "J.C." discovered a world far different than the slower, Southern life he'd known. I couldn't live where I wanted. Owens had set the world record in the long jump with a leap of 8.13 m (26 ft 8 in) in 1935, the year before the Berlin Olympics, and this record stood for 25 years until it was … It was not lost on Owens that in many ways, he was treated better by the supremacists of Nazi Germany – who allowed him to stay in the same hotel and mix with other athletes – than he was back in racially-segregated America. Here, Owens earned the nickname that would stick with him the rest of his life: One of his instructors, unable to decipher his thick southern accent, believed the young athlete said his name was "Jesse," when he, in fact, had said "J.C."At East Technical High School, Owens quickly made a name for himself as a nationally recognized sprinter, setting records in the 100 and 200-yard dashes as well as the long jump. His fourth gold came in the 4x100m relay, in which Owens formed a key part of the team that set a new world record of 39.80 seconds.The significance of Owens’ performance has resonated through the years and has meant different things to different people. Jesse Owens's profile, read the full biography, see the number of Olympic medals, watch videos and read all the latest news.

He captured four gold medals (the 100 meter, the long jump, the 200 meter and the 400-meter relay) and broke two Olympic records along the way. Owens' record-breaking performance of four gold medals was not equaled until Carl Lewis won gold medals in the same events at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The couple had three daughters together: Gloria, Beverly and Marlene.We strive for accuracy and fairness. His excuisite achievement of four gold medals at 1936 Olympic games in the Berlin has did him best School proved to be one of the bigger changes. After graduating, Owens enrolled at Ohio State University, where he continued to flourish as an athlete.At the 1935 Big Ten Championships, the "Buckeye Bullet," as he was also known, overcame a severe tailbone injury and tied a world record in the 100-yard dash—and set a long jump record of 26-8 ¼ that would stand for 25 years. One of Jesse Owens‘ four 1936 Olympic gold medals will be put up for sale next week by Goldin Auctions.