Edwin Moses was born in Dayton, Ohio on August 31, 1955.
He is widely recognised as the greatest 400m of all time.
Moses dominated his sport for almost a decade from 1977 to 1987 winning a record 107 consecutive races, including one at the 1984 Olympic Games.
During this time, he set a new world record 4 times.
Just 4 months after his first ever competition at this distance event Ed Moses took the gold medal at the Montreal Olympic Games 1976. In doing so, he set a world record of 47.64 seconds.
In 1980 Edwin Moses was listed to compete in the Olympics, though with the Cold War well underway between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the American Olympic team was instructed to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games in Russia by the then President, Jimmy Carter.
In the 1984 Olympics, Moses won the 400m hurdle gold medal for the last time.
