Rare footage of the races before before the legendary final win of Jesse Owens in the 100m #tbt #Berlin1936 #Olympics | Olympics

Jesse Owens won the gold medal for the 100 meter dash on August 3, the first of four he would win at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Tradition called for the leader of the host country to congratulate the gold medal winner, but Hitler refused to greet Owens. | American Experience | PBS

382K views · 4.8K reactions | On August 3, 1936 American sprinter Jesse Owens won the 100m dash with a time of 10.3 seconds in front of Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Olympics, marking the first of 4 gold medals for Owens at the Games. Owens defeated teammate and a college friend Ralph Metcalfe by a tenth of a second and defeated Tinus Osendarp of the Netherlands by two tenths of a second. | Davenport Sports Network | Facebook