Jesse Owens, the son of a sharecropper and the grandson of a slave, achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished. His incredible achievement of four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games ...

US champion Jesse Owens (R) and German champion Luz Long (L) chat together on the Berlin stadium 01 August 1936 during the Olympic Games where Owens captured 4 gold medals, 100m, 200m, 4x100m and long ...

Jesse Owens' grandson said his track ... told CNN how his grandpa's four gold medals mattered in much more than sports. The 1936 Olympics were set in the German capital with Hitler's reign ...

Jesse Owens became an international superstar at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, winning four gold medals. Owens claimed gold in the 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m relay and long jump.

The silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction for more than $488,000, a sum the auction house said was a ...

“Jesse exploded beyond 26 feet as he hurled ... “I was no longer a proud man who had won four Olympic gold medals,” Owens said later. “I was a spectacle, a freak who made his living ...

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay and the long jump – made him a track and field great.

“The story of Jesse Owens never seems to end,” said Long ... The bidding runs through Oct. 15. The value of Olympic medals on the open market varies widely. One of Owens’ four gold medals ...

Today’s Sports Highlight in History: In 1936, Jesse Owens becomes the first American to win four Olympic gold medals as the United States sets a world record in the 4×100 relay at the Berlin Games.

The most expensive Olympic medal ever sold, unsurprisingly, is one of four Jesse Owens golds from the same Olympics. In 2013, an Owens gold sold for $1,466,574, also via SCP Auctions -- a record ...

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — The silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction for more than $488,000 ...