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Matthew MacKenzie "Mack" Robinson (July 18, 1914 – March 12, 2000) was an American track and field athlete. He is best known for winning a silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics, where he broke the Olympic record in the 200 meters.
In 1992, when riots broke out across Los Angeles after four members of the Los Angeles Police Department were acquitted by a jury after being filmed beating Rodney King, Mack Robinson was one of the community leaders called upon to help restore peace. Mack Robinson was inducted into the UO Hall of Fame in 1995.
Apr 13, 2022 · He was Jackie’s big brother, and he was the man who, despite matching an Olympic record in the 200-meter dash at the 1936 Summer Games, finished 0.4 seconds behind another legend named Jesse Owens. Yet Mack, who passed away in 2000, is publicly revered in Pasadena for a reason.
Apr 15, 2010 · An exceptional athlete and one of America’s leading sprinters of the 1930s, Matthew Mackenzie “Mack” Robinson, was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1912. Matthew grew up with three other siblings, including the famed Jackie Robinson.
Jul 21, 2012 · Mack Robinson, who finished second to Jesse Owens in the 200, came home to degradation in his home city of Pasadena, Calif. Martinus Osendarp, the Dutch sprinter who was third, wound up in...
May 17, 2024 · Mack Robinson: 1936 Olympic Medalist, Black and Invisible Robinson won a silver medal second only to the great Jesse Owens, with both men breaking the world record in the 200 meter run
Mack Robinson was a fine athlete, but he is best known as the brother of Jackie Robinson, the first black to play major league baseball in the 20th century. In 1936, Mack Robinson was attending Pasadena Junior College, but he later enrolled at the University of Oregon and won the NCAA 220 y in 1938.
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