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Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics

He took the 100 m, 200 m, long jump and 4x100 m relay in Berlin

At the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, American athlete Jesse Owens won four gold medals: the 100 metres, the 200 metres, the long jump and the 4x100 metres relay. His success at a Games the Nazi government hoped to use for propaganda has become one of the best-known moments in Olympic history.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: He took the 100 m, 200 m, long jump and 4x100 m relay in Berlin. The figure is taken from Olympics.com, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.