In the legacy of legendary athletes, many times track and field stars are overlooked in favor of those stars of the popular televised team sports such as hockey and football. However, there are enough people who are interested in a Jesse Owens quiz that it shows that there are some track stars who have been able to surpass even that limitation and enter into the list of athletic legends that people think of in this country. Jesse Owens was born James Cleveland Owens, and would become one of the most well known Olympic Athletes in American History.

Jesse Owens trivia should pay homage to the coach that probably was largely responsible for enabling him to have the career that he did. Owens came from a background that required him to be working after school in a shoe shop, and this meant that he couldn't attend the regularly scheduled track practices organized by his school. However, Charles Riley, the junior high track coach where Owens was attending school, saw that the boy had both a passion and a talent for running, and so arranged for him to be able to practice before school instead. Owens would spend his entire life being sure that this junior high coach received much of the credit for Owen's own success.

A Jesse Owens quiz should note that he achieved this success despite his racial background, which at the time was a huge limitation to him. He could only eat in certain restaurants and sleep in certain hotels, as could all African Americans of the time. He was also never offered a scholarship for school despite setting records for NCAA championships which have yet to be broken to this day.

No Jesse Owens trivia would be complete without discussing the Berlin Olympics which is where his star rose as high as it would ever be able to. These Olympics were during the height of Hitler's rule, and were especially galling to the leader who had wanted to host the Olympics partly to showcase Aryan athletic superiority over those of African descent. He won four gold medals at those Olympics - in the 100m dash, the Long Jump, the 200m sprint, and the 4X 100 relay. It would take almost fifty years for someone else to walk away from the Olympics with four gold medals. He passed away at the age of sixty six from lung cancer.

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