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Owens got his start in track in junior high, but he really started to make his mark in the sport at East Tech. As a sophomore at the state championships in 1931, he won the broad jump, finished second in the 200-yard dash and fourth in the 100 as East Tech finished eighth.</SPAN>
The next year Jesse Owens led East Tech to the state championship when he won four events at the state meet. He won the 100-yard (91m) dash in 9.9 seconds, tying the meet record; won the 200-yard dash; won the broad jump with a leap of 22’11 ¾”, setting a new state record; and helped to set another new state record of 1:30.8 as a member of the winning 880-yard (4x220) relay team.</SPAN>
In 1933, Owens led the Scarabs to a second consecutive state championship by again winning four events, the only boy to ever win four events at the state meet two times. In the 100-yard dash he set a new state record of 9.6 seconds. In the 200-yard dash he also set a state record, winning with a time of 20.8 seconds. He set a third state record in the broad jump with a leap of 24’3¾”. As a member of the 880-yard relay team, Owens helped to set yet another state record with a time of 1:30.3. Four state records in four events. While his state records have all since been broken, no one else has ever set four state records in a single state track meet. </SPAN>
With his reputation already well established around Ohio, Jesse Owens burst onto the national and world stage at the National High School Championships later that year when he tied the world record in the 100-yard dash with a time of 9.4 seconds – the second time that year that he had done so. That same year, 1933, he set the national high school record in the broad jump with a leap of 24’11¾”, a record that stood for 22 years. </SPAN>
Following his graduation from East Tech, Jesse Owens attended Ohio State University. In 1935 and 1936, at the NCAA championships, the “Buckeye Bullet” won eight individual gold medals, four each year, the only person to ever accomplish this feat. </SPAN>
However, the greatest accomplishment of his entire track career – some would say in the history of sports - came in the spring of 1935. On May 25, 1935, at a Big Ten meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Owens tied one world record and set three more - in a span of just 45 minutes. He tied the world record in the 100-yard (91m) dash with a time of 9.4 seconds. He then set world records in the long jump, 26’8 ¼” (8.13m), the 220-yard (201m) low hurdles, 22.6 seconds (becoming the first person to crack the 23 second barrier), and the 220-yard (201m) dash, 20.3 seconds. And Jesse Owens did all of this while recovering from a fall down a flight of stairs suffered earlier in the week.</SPAN>
