Jesse Owens 1936 gold medal sold for 1466574 at auction Sunday setting a record for the highest price ever paid for Olympic memorabilia. A gold medal won by Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics has been bought in an online auction for more than 14 million.

Lot Detail Jesse Owens 1936 Olympic Gold Medal From Berlin Germany From The Estate Of Bill Bojangles Robinson

He is best remembered for his performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics where he won gold medals in the long jump the 100- and 200-metre dashes and the 4 x 100-metre relay.

Jesse owens gold medal. Greensfelder has analyzed this medal and deemed it an authentic. Owens won four gold medals. One of the four gold medals that the legendary Jesse Owens won during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin has sold for 615000 468000556000 at auction.

28 1990 Jesse Owens received the Congressional Gold Medal from US. This book will tell you the inspirational story of what it took for him to make it into the Olympics. A gold medal awarded to Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin sold for 1466574 early Sunday morning the highest price ever paid for a piece of Olympic memorabilia.

Won the second of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he prevailed in the long jump over German Luz Lon. Gold Medal Hero by Jim Gigliotti is a biography of kid that lives his dream of competing in the Olympic Games. An Olympic gold medal won by Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games has sold for a record 146m in an online auction in California.

It is the highest price ever paid for an item of Olympic memorabilia almost doubling the previous record of 865000 paid last April for a silver cup won by the winner of the first modern-day Olympic Marathon in 1896. The highest honor Owens received came a full ten years after his death. The medal - one of four golds Owens won at the Games - was bought by an.

He was the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games. Jesse Owens was raised in a poor African-American family in Alabama. Congressman Louis Stokes from Cleveland lobbied tirelessly to earn Owens a.

On August 4 1936 Jesse Owens of the US. Owens triumphed in the face of Adolf Hitler and. One of the four gold medals won by US athletics legend Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was today sold at auction for 1466574.

The Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner Ron Burkle paid 1466574 the. Japans Naoto Tajima bronze American Jesse Owens gold who set an Olympic record in. He was very hardworking and became very successful.

It is known that before he passed away in 1980 Owens received replicas of his gold medals. One of Jesse Owens four 1936 Olympic gold medals will be put up for sale next week by Goldin Auctions. Renowned Olympic medals expert James D.

Two of Jesse Owens four 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medals will be auctioned in August according to Heritage Auctions. Gold medal won by Jesse Owens at 1936 Olympics sells for 615000 Posted Dec 08 2019 A statue of Jesse Owens running through the Olympic rings stands at the Jesse Owens Museum in Oakville Ala. The medal winners in the 1936 long jump from left.

Jesse Owens was an American athlete.