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Carl Lewis is considered by many to be the greatest track & field athlete of all time and, with nine Olympic gold medals, 10 Olympic medals, and eight gold medals at the World Championships, it is a justifiable claim. His Olympic gold medals came in 1984 (100 metres, 200 metres, 4×100 metres relay, long jump), 1988 (100 metres, long jump ...
Carl Lewis. Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis, född 1 juli 1961 i Birmingham, Alabama, är en amerikansk före detta friidrottare, sprinter och längdhoppare som tävlade för Santa Monica Track Club i Kalifornien. Lewis anses vara en av historiens absolut främsta idrottsmän oavsett idrott.
Carl Lewis nació el 1 de julio de 1961, en Birmingham, Alabama (Estados Unidos). Familia Su progenitor, William Lewis, fue jugador de polo americano y su madre, Evelyn Lawler, vallista en el equipo de Pan-Am 1951. Lewis fue entrenado inicialmente por su padre, que también entrenaba a otros atletas locales.
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.
30 de abr. de 2023 · 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. Matching Jesse Owens. 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.
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. His five Olympic appearances are a record for a male athlete, and many of his Olympic ...
5 de jul. de 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.
