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Edwin Moses Bio (Biography)
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Edwin Moses won gold medals at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics in the 400-meter hurdles and he also won the bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics in the same event. However, his more lasting record was the fact that he won 122 consecutive races, setting the world record in the 400-meter hurdles four different times.
Moses was born in Dayton, Ohio, in1955, and later attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, on an academic scholarship. While there he majored in physics and engineering and began competing for the school's track team. The college itself did not have a track, so Moses was forced to use the public facilities at high schools around the city in order to train and get into shape.
When he first began running on the team, the 400-meter hurdles was not his race of choice as he initially competed in the 180-yard hurdles and 440-yard dash. However, he found that by staying on the same pace of taking only thirteen steps between the hurdles he pulled away from his competitors in the last half of the race when they began to change their stride. That summer after he began running the 400-meter hurdles Moses qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics and not only won the gold medal, but also set the world record at only 47.64 seconds. From the year after the Olympics in August of 1977 until June of 1987, Moses would not lose another race that he competed in, winning a total of 122 consecutive races.
During his years of racing, Moses was also very vocal in his support of reform in the areas of Olympic eligibility and drug testing. With his help the track and field area of sports developed one of the most complete drug testing systems both in and out of competition.
Since racing in his last event at the 1988 Olympics, Moses was elected as the Chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy in 2000. This was considered a great honor since the LWSA is an international service organization of world-class athletes whose primary goal is "to promote and increase participation in sport at every level, and also to promote the use of sport as a tool for social change around the world."
Moses was born in Dayton, Ohio, in1955, and later attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, on an academic scholarship. While there he majored in physics and engineering and began competing for the school's track team. The college itself did not have a track, so Moses was forced to use the public facilities at high schools around the city in order to train and get into shape.
When he first began running on the team, the 400-meter hurdles was not his race of choice as he initially competed in the 180-yard hurdles and 440-yard dash. However, he found that by staying on the same pace of taking only thirteen steps between the hurdles he pulled away from his competitors in the last half of the race when they began to change their stride. That summer after he began running the 400-meter hurdles Moses qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics and not only won the gold medal, but also set the world record at only 47.64 seconds. From the year after the Olympics in August of 1977 until June of 1987, Moses would not lose another race that he competed in, winning a total of 122 consecutive races.
During his years of racing, Moses was also very vocal in his support of reform in the areas of Olympic eligibility and drug testing. With his help the track and field area of sports developed one of the most complete drug testing systems both in and out of competition.
Since racing in his last event at the 1988 Olympics, Moses was elected as the Chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy in 2000. This was considered a great honor since the LWSA is an international service organization of world-class athletes whose primary goal is "to promote and increase participation in sport at every level, and also to promote the use of sport as a tool for social change around the world."