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Edwin Moses
President International Amateur Athletic Association

Moses dominated the intermediate hurdles during his athletic career, recording 107 consecutive victories in the 400-meter hurdles finals, going undefeated for 10 years and setting the world record in the event four times. Moses earned Olympic gold medals at the Olympic Games Montreal 1976 and the Los Angeles 1984 Games, along with the bronze medal at the Seoul 1988 Games. Moses, a physicist from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA. is known for both academic and athletics, earning a bachelor of science degree in physics and a master’s degree in business administration. He was later elected as the president of the International Amateur Athletic Association and was voted Sports Illustrated’s co-Sportsman of the Year with Mary Lou Retton.

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