100 meters and long jump are the representative events of track and field, athletes who can combine 100 meters and long jump will be quite powerful, in the 100 meters and long jump to the extreme, that is, at the same time to create a world record + win the Olympic gold medal of the person history is only one, not Bolt nor Carl Lewis, but Jesse Owens, eat 100 meters and long jump two major events, Xiaobian believes that from the perspective of short jump, Owens is the real first person in athletics.
Bolt swept his contemporaries in 100 meters and 200 meters, achieving an unprecedented double triple crown in the existing Olympic events, creating world records of 9.58 seconds and 19 seconds 19 seconds that have been sealed for more than a decade, so that young athletes cannot catch up with the lightning speed ahead, Bolt is great enough to achieve the extreme of 100 meters and 200 meters, but lacks a long jump, long jump 8 meters 95 world record holder Powell has said that if Bolt also participates in the long jump competition, he is expected to skip the 9 meters mark.
Carl Lewis was praised as Owens second, in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, Owens won four Olympic gold medals in the 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump, 4×100 meters, Lewis also won gold medals in four events at the Los Angeles Olympics 48 years later, but Lewis only achieved the ultimate in 100 meters, broke the world record and won the Olympic gold medal, 200 meters and long jump but only Olympic gold medals but did not create their own world records, did not eat 100 meters and long jump, and could not be called the first person in track and field.
In 1935, Owens jumped 8 meters 13 to break the world record of 7 meters 98 long jumps set by Japanese star Nang Chungpyeong, becoming the world's first athlete to break the 8-meter line, a record that was held for twenty-five years. At the 1936 NCAA Championships, Owens set the world record of 10.00 meters and 2 seconds in hand, which was held for twenty years; at the Berlin Olympic Games in the same year, Owens won the championship in the 200 meters, setting the world record of 20.7 seconds in hand, which was not broken until 1952.
In the 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump at the same time to break the world record and win the Olympic gold medal, Owens has the most impeccable sprint burst speed and bounce agility ability, which is a great feat that neither Carl Lewis nor Bolt can do, Owens is not only the Olympic hero of that era, but also the first person in modern athletics to develop so far, truly all-inclusive athletics and track racing.