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Frederick Carlton Lewis OLY (born July 1, 1961) is a former American track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. His career spanned from 1979 to 1996, when he last won the Olympic long jump.
5 days ago · Carl Lewis (born July 1, 1961, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.) is an American track-and-field athlete, who won nine Olympic gold medals during the 1980s and ’90s. Lewis qualified for the U.S. Olympic team in 1980 but did not compete, because of the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games.
As an Olympic athlete, Carl Lewis was part of five American Olympic Teams, winning 10 medals, nine of them gold. With unsurpassed talent in the long jump and his speed in the sprints, he has gone places where no other track and field athlete has ever visited.
Carl Lewis, as one of only four Olympic athletes to have won nine Olympic gold medals, is widely recognised as one of the greatest athletes of all time. Matching Jesse Owens. At the 1984 Los Angeles Games, Lewis emulated his boyhood idol Jesse Owens by winning gold in the 100m, the 200m, the long jump and the 4x100m relay. A superstar was born.
Carl Lewis is one of the most decorated athletes of all time, having won 10 Olympic medals, including nine gold, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. His athletic career spanned from 1979 to 1996 when he was the dominant sprinter and long jumper, topping the world rankings in the 100m, 200m and long jump.
Feb 14, 2024 · Now in his ninth season coaching at the University of Houston and first as the head coach, Olympic legend “King Carl” is widely recognized as one of the greatest athletes of all time. By ...
1 day ago · Carl Lewis on the World Athletics Inside Track Podcast. The World Athletics Inside Track Podcast welcomes athletics royalty into the studio, with USA’s nine-time Olympic gold medallist and “King of the GOATs” Carl Lewis joining the chat. Podcast hosts Sanya Richards-Ross and Kelly Sotherton met up with the sprint and long jump legend at ...
Aug 19, 2016 · Carl Lewis won a staggering 10 Olympic medals – nine of them gold – in track and field events while competing in four Olympic Games from 1984 to 1996. A dominant sprinter, Lewis won gold in 1984 in the 100 and 200-meter dash events and anchored the U.S. men’s 4x100 relay team to a world record.
Jan 27, 2024 · For Frederick Carlton Lewis, the long jump competition at the 77th Millrose Games proved to be his first big test of 1984, the year that would become his annus mirabilis, his most marvellous year.
Carl Lewis is considered by many to be the greatest track & field athlete of all time and, with nine Olympic gold medals, 10 Olympic medals, and eight gold medals at the World Championships, it is a justifiable claim.
