Olympic medalist Jesse Owens spent his final years in the Valley. One of his final forms of advocacy, the Jesse Owens Clinic, still stands in South Phoenix.

Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down the track in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Aug. 3, 1936, winning the 100-meter race in a record-tying 10.3 seconds and edging out ...

Jesse Owens was a record-breaking athlete who gained international fame, breaking barriers in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. Owens spent his final years in the Valley. In fact, one of his final ...

Jesse Owens, born in Oakville, Alabama, in 1913, was a track and field athlete who became a global icon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. As an African American comp ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring ... This was the background for the 1936 Olympics. When Owens finished competing, the African-American son of a sharecropper and the grandson ...

When we talk about sports, we mention Jackie Robinson, Jesse Owens, Kenny Washington, and Earl Loyd, just to name a few and ...

2025 The only two Olympic medals to sell for more was one awarded to runner Jesse Owens from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which sold for $1.47 million in 2013. The second was boxer Wladimir Klitschko ...

McClory added, “When she is faced with an obstacle, she overcomes it through her hard work and dedication to being the best thrower she can be. For example, when she had shoulder surgery, she was ...

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Olympic memorabilia has long fetched a good price. In 2022, the silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction ...

Olympic memorabilia has long fetched a good price. In 2022, the silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction ...