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{{Infobox sportsperson
|name          = Jesse  Owens
|image         ={{!}}border
|imagesize     =
|caption       = Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in [[Berlin]]
|fullname      = James Cleveland Owens
|nationality   = 
|birth_date    = September 12, 1913
|birth_place   = [[Oakville, Alabama|Oakville]], [[Alabama]], U.S.
|death_date    = {{Death date and age|1980|03|31|1913|09|12}}
|death_place   = [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]], [[Arizona]], U.S.
|height        = {{convert|5|ft|10+3/4|in|cm|sigfig=3|abbr=on}}<ref name=Edmondson>{{cite book|last1=Edmondson|first1=Jacqueline|title=Jesse Owens: A Biography|date=2007|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |location=USA|page=29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ngxJ7XqMqTEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=true|accessdate=September 6, 2014}}</ref>
|weight        = {{convert|165|lb|abbr=on}}
|sport         = [[Track an field]]
|event         = [[Sprint (runnin)|Sprint]], [[Long jump]]
|club          =
|alma_mater       = [[Ohio State Buckeyes|Ohio State Varsity]]
|retired       =
|coaching      =
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|medaltemplates=
{{MedalSport|Men's track an field}}
{{MedalCountry|the {{Flag|Unitit States|1912|size=23px}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Athletics at the Simmer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Berlin]]|[[Athletics at the 1936 Simmer Olympics – Men's 100 metres|100 m]]}}
{{MedalGold|1936 Berlin|[[Athletics at the 1936 Simmer Olympics – Men's 200 metres|200 m]]}}
{{MedalGold|1936 Berlin|[[Athletics at the 1936 Simmer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay|4×100 m relay]]}}
{{MedalGold|1936 Berlin|[[Athletics at the 1936 Simmer Olympics – Men's lang jump|Lang jump]]}}
}}
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R96374, Berlin, Olympiade, Jesse Owens beim Weitsprung crop.jpg|thumb|]]
'''James Cleveland''' "'''Jesse'''" '''Owens''' (September 12, 1913{{snds}}Mairch 31, 1980) wis an American [[track an field]] athlete an fower-time [[Athletics at the 1936 Simmer Olympics|Olympic]] gowd medalist in the 1936 gemmes.

Owens specialised in the [[Sprint (runnin)|sprint]]s an the [[lang jump]] an wis recognised in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest an maist famous athlete in track an field history".<ref>{{Citation |last= Litsky |first= Frank|year=1980 |title=Jesse Owens Dies Of Cancer at 66 |publication-place=''New York Times'' |url=http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0912.html |accessdate= March 23, 2014 }}</ref> His achievement o setting three world records an tying another in less nor an oor at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], haes been called "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.si.com/more-sports/2010/05/24/owens-recordday |title=Greatest 45 minutes ever in sports |last=Rothschild |first= Richard |date= May 24, 2010|website= Sports Illustrated.com |accessdate= March 23, 2014}}</ref> an has nevir been equalled. At the [[1936 Simmer Olympics]] in [[Berlin, Germany|Berlin]], [[Nazi Germany|Germany]], Owens wan internaitional fame wi fower [[Olympic gowd medal|gowd medal]]s: [[Athletics at the 1936 Simmer Olympics – Men's 100 metres|100 meters]], [[Athletics at the 1936 Simmer Olympics – Men's 200 metres|200 meters]], [[Athletics at the 1936 Simmer Olympics – Men's lang jump|lang jump]], an [[Athletics at the 1936 Simmer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 meter relay]]. He was the most successfu athlete at the games an as such hes been creditit wi "single-handedly crush[in] [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler's]] meeth o [[Aryanization (Nazism)|Aryan]] supremacy."<ref name=Schwartz>{{cite web |url=http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016393.html |title=Owens Pierced A Myth |last=Schwartz |first=Larry |publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures |work=ESPN |year=2000 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000706211910/http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016393.html |archivedate=2000-07-06 |access-date=2016-08-06 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Jesse Owens Awaird]] is [[USA Track and Field|USA Track and Field's]] heichest accolade for the year's best track an field athlete. Owens wis ranked bi [[ESPN]] as the saxt greatest North American athlete o the twentiet century an the heichest-ranked in his sport.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://espn.go.com/sportscentury/athletes.html |title=Top N. American athletes of the century |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> | website=ESPN.com |accessdate=March 23, 2014}}</ref>

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