Initially revealed on Could 25, 2020. Particular because of one in every of my religious leaders, Chris Turner.
As we speak, 25 Could 2020, is the eighty fifth anniversary of Jesse Owen’s superb 6 world data in 45 minutes. On that day, Jesse Owens equalled the World document for the 100 yards at 9.4w seconds. Subsequent, Jesse leaped 8.13m for the lengthy soar, a brand new world document. Then, Jesse Owens ran the 200m/220 yards in a world document of 20.3 seconds (this counted as 2 world data, 200m and 220 yards). He set his fifth and sixth world data of the day, all in forty-five minutes, within the 200m/220 yard hurdles, which he ran in 22.6.
The next 12 months, in 1936, Jesse Owens made Olympic historical past together with his 4 Olympic gold medals in Berlin.
Within the following function, posted in the present day on the World Athletics website, Chris Turner, Director of Athletics Heritage, tells us about this superb day.
Seb Coe with Jesse Owen’s gandson, Stuart Rankin, and Jesse Owen’s singlet from Ohio State
Jesse Owens is most famously remembered for his 4 gold medals on the 1936 Berlin Olympic Video games. Much less typically recalled, just a little greater than a 12 months earlier than Owens’ Olympic triumphs, he set a sequence of world data in a single afternoon which ‘Sports activities Illustrated’ described because the “Biggest 45 minutes ever in sports activities” historical past.
As we speak, 25 Could 2020, marks the eighty fifth anniversary of Jesse Owens’ setting 4 world data in 45 minutes in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The tally was actually six world data, as two of the races he ran accrued him two world data apiece, the 200m/220yd (20.3s) and 200m hurdles/220yd hurdles (22.6).
Competing for Ohio State College and carrying a pink cotton singlet with ‘OHIO’ emblazoned on the chest in giant white capitals, Owens’ document spree that afternoon additionally included him equalling the 100yd world document (9.4) and changing into the world’s first eight metres lengthy jumper in historical past together with his 8.13m leap.
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