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Long Jump
Long Jump
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100 meter dash
Because Adolf Hitler believed the German's would win every field event. Jesse Owens denied that.
100 meter dash
he competed in long jump and 100m sprints and 200m sprints
He was the first black to race against the whites for track and field event
The Olympic Games, hosted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, Germany. Hitler was very upset at the success of Jesse Owens over German athletes.
Lutz Lang competed against Jesse Owens in the broad jump at the 1936 Olympics. Lang finished 2nd to Owens. But the big shocker was after the event, when Lang and Owens circled the track Arm-in Arm which infuriated Adolf Hitler.
In the 1936 Olympics there was Jesse Owens who won four gold medals and broke the world record for the long jump while also beating Lutz Long, An Aryan of pure blood
a record of an event by someone who wasn't there at the time or event so they are secondary a record of an event by someone who wasn't there at the time or event so they are secondary