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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 the Olympic long jump.
Feb 14, 2024 · Where is Carl Lewis now? After making history in the sport, Lewis retired from track and field in 1997. He is now in his 60s and working as head coach for the University of Houston's Track and...
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6 days ago · 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.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Track and field athlete Carl Lewis competed in four Olympic Games. He won nine gold medals, including four at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Apr 27, 2013 · 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.
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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.
