People And Biographies

Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956), American athlete, who dominated a number of sports at the highest levels in an era that offered limited athletic opportunities for women. She was a track and field star in the Olympic Games and one of the top professional golfers in history. A 1950 Associated Press (AP) poll named Didrikson the [...]

Carl Lewis, born in 1961, American track-and-field athlete, who won a total of nine gold medals at the Olympic Games in 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996, including four straight gold medal performances in the long jump. The feat made Lewis the second competitor in Olympic history to win the same event in four consecutive Olympic [...]

Jesse Owens (1913-1980), one of the greatest track-and-field athletes of all time. He was born James Cleveland Owens on September 12, 1913, in a small town in Alabama, the son of a sharecropper. The young Owens was called J.C. as a child, and later, after the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, a teacher heard his [...]