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Carl 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. He is one of only three Olympic athletes who won a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympic Games. |
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| Lewis is the only man to successfully defend an Olympic long jump title.Outdoors, Lewis jumped 14 of the 20 furthest ancillary jumps of all time. (Ancillary marks are those that are valid, but were not the furthest in a series.) |
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Personal best marks: 100 m: 9.86 s (August 1991, Tokyo) 200 m: 19.75 s (June 1983, Indianapolis) Long jump: 8.87 m (29 ft 1 in) 1991, w 8.91 m (29 ft 2 3⁄4 in) 1991 (both in Tokyo) 4 × 100 m relay: 37.40 s (United States August 1992, Barcelona) 4 × 200 m relay: 1:18.68 min (Santa Monica Track Club 1994;former world record) |
| In 1999, Lewis was voted "Sportsman of the Century" by the International Olympic Committee, elected "World Athlete of the Century" by the International Association of Athletics Federations and named "Olympian of the Century" by Sports Illustrated.In 2000 his alma mater University of Houston named the Carl Lewis International Complex after him.In 2010, Lewis was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.In 2016, Lewis was inducted into the Texas Track and Field Coaches Association Hall of Fame. |
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