The performance of Jesse Owens will be honoured in the stadium where he won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games when the World Championships are held in Berlin this month.

USA Track and Field announced yesterday that the organisation, along with the IAAF and Berlin Organising Committee, will pay tribute to Owens on August 22. His granddaughter, Marlene Hemphill Dortch, will attend the ceremony.

The American team plans to wear a uniform with the initials of Owens.

The organisations also will honour former German long jump great Luz Long, who befriended Owens at the Berlin Games. Dortch and Long's son, Kai, will present the long jump medals.

Owens died of lung cancer in 1980.