On 3 August 1936, Jesse Owens  won the 100 m dash with a time of 10.3 seconds, at the Olympic Games held in Nazi Germany.

On August 4, he won the long jump with a leap of 8.06 metres (26 ft 5 in) (3¼ inches short of his own world record). 

On August 5, he won the 200 meter sprint with a time of 20.7 seconds.

On August 9, Owens won his fourth gold medal in the 4 × 100 m sprint relay.

Owens’s record-breaking performance of four gold medals was not equalled until Carl Lewis won gold medals in the same events at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. 

On August 2 Owens’s African-American team-mate Cornelius Johnson won gold in the high jump final with a new Olympic record of 2.03 meters.

On August 1, 1936, Nazi Germany’s leader, Adolf Hitler, shook hands with the German victors only and then left the stadium. International Olympic Committee president Henri de Baillet-Latour insisted that Hitler greet every medalist or none at all. Hitler opted for the latter and skipped all further medal presentations.

On returning to the US Owens was given a ticker tape parade in Manhattan by the New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. After the parade, Owens was not permitted to enter through the main doors of the Waldorf Astoria New York and instead forced to travel up to the reception honoring him in a freight elevator. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) never invited Jesse Owens to the White House following his triumphs at the Olympic Games.

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