CARL LEWIS - SPRINTS-LONG JUMP (Inducted 2001)

Born July 1, 1961, Birmingham, Ala.

Already a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee Hall of Fame, Carl Lewis is regarded as one of the greatest Olympians of all-time. One of his greatest moments came at the 1984 Olympic Games when he matched the feat of Hall of Famer Jesse Owens by winning four gold medals in the same events (100, 200, long jump, 4 x 100 relay). At the 1988 Olympics, Lewis won the 100 and long jump and in 1992 again won the long jump and anchored the winning 4 x 100 team. In 1996, he won his fourth-straight gold medal in the long jump which made him only the second Olympian ever to win the same event in four-straight Olympic Games. (Hall of Famer discus thrower Al Oerter was the first). His total of nine Olympic gold medals ties him with swimmer Mark Spitz for first place on the all-time U.S. list. In addition, Lewis also has won 10 medals (eight of them gold), at the World Outdoor Championships, the most by any athlete in the world.