Jesse Owens

The graves of the famous

Info: James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens ) was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 Games. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history". His achievement of setting three world records and tying another in less than an hour at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been called "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport" and has never been equaled. At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, Owens won international fame with four gold medals: 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump, and 4 × 100 meter relay. He was the most successful athlete at the Games and, as a black man, was credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy", although he "wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either".

Sex: Male

Burial: Oak Woods Cemetery

Plot: Section C-32

Memorial ID: 2188.0

Date of birth: 12 Sep 1913

Date of death: 31 Mar 1980

Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qRY-AzHrFc

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