On this day in 1936, at the Olympic Games in Berlin, track and field star Jesse Owens ... breaking the previous record by 15 centimeters.” Owens’ victory in the long jump has gone down in ...

Jesse Owens is best remembered as the sprinter and long jumper ... 200 and long jump and ran on the winning 4x100m relay team. In the 200m and long jump, he set Olympic records and the relay team set ...

Ninety years ago, Jesse Owens made history by producing the ... Owens instead set a long jump record that lasted until 2016. He broke records in the 220-yard dash (and the 200-meter equivalent ...

In this movie Jesse Owens narrates his experience to Kai, Lutz Long’s son ... the gold medal with a final jump of 26-5½, just 2½ inches short of the world record he had set, a year before ...

As Jesse Owens soared over the eight-metre mark to ... The partnership with Richter proved fruitful, as Long broke the German long jump record in 1933 to become national champion, aged just ...

SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — From Jesse Owens to Bob Beamon to Carl Lewis and plenty more, Americans have ruled the men's long jump throughout ... holds the Olympic record, which he set while ...

Jesse set a new junior high school record when he ran the 100-yard dash in 11 seconds flat. While at Fairmount, he also set records in the high jump and the long jump. As a high school senior at EAST ...