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A two-time
Olympic gold medalist, Edwin Moses is recognized as one of
the greatest track and field athletes in history. Moses set
the 400m hurdles world
record four times and won the AAU
Sullivan Award in 1983. The dominant intermediate hurdler in
the world for more than a decade, Moses will always be
remembered for his remarkable consecutive race winning
streak that lasted nearly ten years.
After winning
the 1976 Olympic 400m hurdles gold medal with a world record
performance and setting an additional world record in
winning the 1977 U.S. title, Moses lost a race in August of
that year to West German Harald Schmid in Berlin. Who could
have guessed then that nine years, nine months and nine days
would pass before Moses would again experience defeat.
During that
time span Moses won 122 races overall (107 finals races) and
on his birthday (August 31, 1983) he set a world record of
47.02 seconds that would last nine years. During the streak
he also won five U.S. and U.S. Olympic Trials titles, three
World Cup titles and another Olympic gold medal in 1984.
The
remarkable win streak finally came to and end when worldwide
headlines announced that Danny Harris had defeated Moses in
Madrid on June 4, 1987. Moses, who will always be remembered
for his unprecedented 13 steps between hurdles instead of
the customary 14, went on to win the bronze medal at the
1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. He was inducted into the
National Track & Field Hall of Fame in 1994.
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