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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 an Olympic event.
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. Amidst ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Who Is Carl Lewis? Track and field athlete Carl Lewis qualified for the Olympics in 1980, but did not participate because of the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games. He did go on to compete in...
May 29, 2024 · 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.
Jun 12, 2021 · Unfortunately, this was Lewis's last time on an Olympic team. He retired from track and field the following year. This doesn't even touch on the success he had at the Track and Field World Championships either, where he won golds in Helsinki in 1983, Rome in 1987 and Tokyo in 1991. Carl Lewis Now
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.
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. BIO.
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. 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.
Mar 7, 2012 · Lewis won nine gold medals at four Olympic Games and eight at the IAAF World Championships. He not only equalled Jess Owens' record of four golds at a single Olympics, winning the 100m, 200m, long jump and being part of the US quartet that won the 4x100m relay at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, but he also won the long jump at four ...
