This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as Watch Jesse Owens Win Four Golds at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, hosted by a freshly appointed ...

Jesse Owens defeated the athletes of the Third Reich at the Berlin Olympics, but the racism continued long after he returned ...

four gold medals won. That equation should have been enough to make any athlete stand out in a crowd of his contemporaries. Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 were ...

Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics ... Crowds of 110,000 cheered him in Berlin's glittering Olympic Stadium and his autograph or picture was sought as he walked the streets.

On September 26, 1934, Brundage announced that the American Olympic Committee officially accepted the invitation to participate in the Berlin Olympics ... Owens won four gold medals in all ...

In 1936, nine young rowers from the University of Washington unexpectedly won a gold medal at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. See the team roster, as listed by boat position.