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Biography. Luz Long was a German long jumper who competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, winning a silver medal behind Jesse Owens. Long was German long jump champion in 1933-34 and 1936-39. He won two bronze medals at the 1934 and 1938 European Championships and at the World University Games he won a silver medal in 1935 and a gold in 1937.
Luz Long was a German athlete who was there to compete against Jesse Owens in the Board Jump event in 1936 Berlin Olympics. Adolf Hitler hoped to win the jump with Luz and kept him under wraps. Luz was a tall man and very friendly. Though he was schooled in the Nazi youth movement, he didn’t believe much in Hitler’s Aryan-supremacy theory.
Other articles where Carl Ludwig Long is discussed: Jesse Owens: 1936 Berlin Games: …it was German long jumper Carl Ludwig (“Luz”) Long who aided Owens through a bad start in the long jump competition. Owens was flustered to learn that what he had thought was a practice jump had been counted as his first attempt. Unsettled, he foot-faulted the second attempt. Before Owens’s…
Great Olympic Friendships: Jesse Owens, Luz Long and a beacon of brotherly love at the Nazi games 'That business with Hitler didn't bother me,' Owens later wrote. 'I didn't go there to shake hands.
Aug 5, 2009 · Jesse Owens (R) and Luz Long (L) chat together in the Berlin stadium 1 August 1936 during the Olympic Games (© AFP / Getty Images) The families of Olympic legend Jesse Owens and German long jumping great Luz Long will be part of the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, to be held 15-23 August in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium.
Aug 14, 2009 · The 1936 Berlin Olympics are best remembered for Jesse Owens, who triumphed in a dramatic duel in the Olympic long jump against Germany's Luz Long. Although the story of that competition and the ...
