Labels:text | human face | person | smile OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Owens, Jesse Jesse Owens Born to a poor farming family in Alabama, Jesse Owens became one of the greatest track-and-field athletes of the 20th century. His success at the 1936 Berlin Olympics made Adolf Hitler leave the stadium in fury, rather than present medals to a black, non-Aryan champion. Three great achievements mark Owens's outstanding career. In 1935, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, he set three world records and went on to equal another in less than an hour - the 100-yard dash, the 220-yard dash, the 220-yard hurdles, and the broad jump. His broad-jump record of 26 feet 8.25 inches remained unbroken for 25 years. At the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, he won four gold medals, for the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, the broad jump, and the 100-meter relay. Despite these outstanding triumphs, Jesse Owens, U.S. athlete, 1913-80 Owens returned from the Olympics to scant recognition. At age 23 he turned professional, and ended his sporting career in exhibition races, sometimes running against horses and dogs. However, in 1976 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. CHRONOLOGY
