10 greatest male sprinters of all time

#2 Jesse Owens

Arguably one of the greatest athletes of all time, Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Games which were opened in Nazi Germany by Hitler. Despite having to run odd dirt tracks in stadiums that were old-fashioned for the time, Owens ran the 100m in 10.3 seconds and the 200m in 20.7 seconds.

He has thus being hailed for “single-handedly crushing Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy” due to his incredible performance at the Games. Another record that he has to his name is for staging the "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport" at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Michigan where he set three world records and tied another one in a time span of less than half an hour.

”A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.”