Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal of the Berlin Olympics on August 9, 1936, running the first leg for the U.S.A.'s record-setting 4x100 relay team.
Jesse Owens, one of the most electrifying stars in the history of track and field — and whose record-setting speed and athleticism humiliated Adolf Hitler on the global stage — won his fourth gold medal at"The African-American son of a sharecropper and the grandson of slaves had single-handedly crushed," ESPN wrote in 2000, while placing Owens at no. 6 on its list of the greatest North American athletes of the 20th century.
Members of the American relay team that won the 400-meter relay race at the Olympics in Berlin. They bettered the world and the Olympic records at 0:39.8 seconds. Left to right: Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper and Frank Wykoff on Aug. 18, 1936.Over the previous week, he bested the global competition in 100 meters , 200 meters and long jump .
"The 21-year-old Owens averaged a world record every nine minutes," said the International Olympic Committee in its profile of Owens and his seemingly superhuman achievement. American Jesse Owens running in the 200-meter sprint — a new Olympic record — in Berlin, August 4, 1936. He represented the"highest expression of national appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions," according to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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