Edwin Moses

Edwin Moses is one of those rare athletes whose statistics feel almost fictional: 107 straight finals won, 122 consecutive races, the world record broken four times. Yet what genuinely moves me is that he refused to let greatness end at the finish line. His work reforming Olympic eligibility and pioneering modern drug testing tells me he cared about the integrity of sport itself, not just his own legacy. That combination of total dominance and moral seriousness is incredibly rare. To me, Moses is less the man of records than the man of standards, someone who left his discipline cleaner and fairer than he found it.

Name (English)

Edwin Moses

Name (Japanese)

エドウィン・モーゼス

Reading

えどうぃん・もーぜす

Born

August 31, 1955 (age 70)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

Origin

Dayton, Ohio, United States

Height

186 cm

Occupation

athletics competitor / bobsledder

University

Morehouse College

• Official sitehttps://www.edwinmoses.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/edwinc.moses/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Moses
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BC%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52620

Tags

• Ohio
• athletics competitor
• bobsledder

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.