USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Jesse Owens was an American athlete. He is best remembered for his performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he won gold medals in the long jump, the 100-and 200-metre dashes, and the 4 x 100-metre relay. He was the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games.

Detailed explanation-2: -Track and Field Against a backdrop of racial discirimination, Jesse Owens shined at the Berlin 1936 Olympic Games, winning gold medals in the 100-meter dash, long jump, 200-meter dash and the 4×100-meter relay.

Detailed explanation-3: -He achieved international fame at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, by winning four gold medals: 100 meters, long jump, 200 meters, and 4 × 100-meter relay.

Detailed explanation-4: -With his victories in track and field, Owens had proved the Nazi dictator’s racist theories wrong, and in doing so, had become not only an Olympic gold medal winner but an American hero. Click for Olympic photo gallery.

Detailed explanation-5: -On August 4, 1936, American Jesse Owens wins gold in the long jump at the Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. It was the second of four gold medals Owens won in Berlin, as he firmly dispelled German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler’s notion of the superiority of an Aryan “master race, ” for all the world to see.