18 Facts About Edwin Moses

Edwin Corley Moses was born on August 31,1955 and is an American former track and field athlete who won gold medals in the 400 m hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics.

Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals and set the world record in the event four times.

Edwin Moses did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created for the athletes.

At the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles, Edwin Moses was selected to recite the Olympic Oath, but forgot the text during his presentation.

Edwin Moses went on to win his second Olympic gold medal.

Edwin Moses finished third in the final 400m hurdles race of his career at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

In 1979 Edwin Moses took a leave of absence from his job with General Dynamics to devote himself to running full-time.

Edwin Moses presented the plan to Juan Antonio Samaranch, President of the International Olympic Committee, and the concept was ratified in 1981.

Edwin Moses received the AAU's James E Sullivan Award as outstanding amateur athlete in the United States in 1983.

Edwin Moses was being named as ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year in 1984.

Edwin Moses shared the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year with American gymnast Mary Lou Retton in 1984, the same year he took the Athlete's Oath for the 1984 Summer Olympics.

In 1994 Edwin Moses received an MBA from Pepperdine University and was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.

Since election in 2000, Edwin Moses has been chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy, which seeks "to promote and increase participation in sport at every level, and to promote the use of sport as a tool for social change around the world".

In 2008, Edwin Moses presented the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award to Martin Luther King Jr.

Edwin Moses has one son, Julian, a volleyball player, born on August 29,1995, in southern California.

Edwin Moses married Myrella Bordt in 1982; they divorced in 1992.

Edwin Moses married Michelle Moses in February 2007; she filed for divorce in 2016.

In 2017, Edwin Moses suffered two traumatic brain injuries within months, but recovered to be able to walk again.