Owens’ Olympic gold medal for sale
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One of the four Olympic gold medals won by track and field star Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games is up for sale in an online auction that runs through December 7.
The medal — being auctioned online — recalls both the Nazi propaganda myths that Owens busted with his world record-setting 100-yard dash, and the American segregation that he came home to when he returned to the US after the Games, which Adolf Hitler orchestrated to showcase his ideas of Aryan supremacism.
“Almost singlehandedly, Owens obliterated Hitler’s plans,” SCP Auctions partner Dan Imler said. “You’ve got an African American, son of a sharecropper, grandson of slaves who ... delivered a performance for the ages.”
The auction began on November 20 and closes on Saturday. As of Monday, it had received 15 bids, with the highest at nearly US$209,000, Imler said.
Owens won gold in the 100m and 200m, the 400 relay and the long jump.
“We just hope that it’s purchased by an institution where the public could have access to it, a museum or something like that,” said his daughter, Marlene Owens Rankin.
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