It's time for the 2025 OHSAA track and field championships. Athletes from across Ohio will converge on Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus for the two-day competition June 6-7.

Jesse Owens’ four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin is the stuff of legend. “A man who's a second class citizen at home, son of a sharecropper, grandson of slaves, going over to ...

OWENS, JESSE (12 September 1913-31 March 1980), was a world record setting track-and-field athlete during the 1930s.In 1950 sportswriters voted him as the world's top track star of the century. Born ...

James Cleveland Jesse Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic ...

Another biography, Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics, came out in 2008. In 2012, PBS released a documentary on Owens as part of its American Experience series ...

JESSE OWENS: The competition was grand, and we're very glad to come out on top. KRAMER: East Tech's Coach Hardaway says what he wants to instill in his students is the courage and activism Owens ...

Jesse Owens' daughters Beverly Owens Prather and Marlene Owens Rankin admired their father’s values in sports and beyond. Here, they speak to PEOPLE about their father's legacy.

Jesse Owens' four-gold-medal performance in 1936 in Berlin was iconic. For him to do what he did at that time, in that country, on that world stage, has rightly stood the test of time.

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.