

UConn’s Women’s Basketball came close with 111 straight wins from 2014-2017, and the University of North Carolina women’s soccer team won 101 straight games in the early 90’s but those are some of the only 100 plus game winning streaks in sports history. He was previously married to Myrella Bordt. He is a director and actor, known for Australian Geography (1971), Our Land Australia (1972) and Where Dead Men Lie (1971). No one in baseball, basketball, soccer, swimming, or track & field has ever done what Moses was able to do. Edwin Moses, (born August 31, 1955, Dayton, Ohio, U.S. Edwin Moses was born on Augin Dayton, Ohio, USA.

From August 1977 until May 1987, he ran in 122 400-meter-hurdle races.

There is an argument to be made that Edwin Moses was the most dominant athlete of his era and there’s a chance he’s the greatest athlete to ever emerge from an HBCU. For nine years, nine months, and nine days, Edwin Moses was as close to perfect as anyone in modern athletics had ever seen. The pending divorce is an amicable one to both. He used his scientific mind and his physical body to break boundaries people thought were unbreakable. Edwin Moses, the world record-holder in the 400-meter hurdles, filed for an uncontested divorce Tuesday from Myrella Moses, his wife of nine years. Meanwhile Moses accomplished all of this while earning his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Physics. We admire the work and spirit of Edwin Moses. UMass Boston is a university with a long history of developing individuals and a community through athletics. Edwin Moses’s streak is a stand alone accomplishment in track & field – no one has ever come close to being undefeated for more than 100 competitions over 10 years in the modern era of sport. Edwin Moses is more than an Olympic athlete he is a visionary who leverages his abilities, education, and understanding to inspire others, said Chancellor Keith Motley. The streak lived through the death of disco and the birth of hip-hop.ĭr. After serving three years in the army (including one year in. The streak lasted through the presidencies of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan. Edwin Moses was born in Washington, D.C., but moved to Manhattan, Kansas seven years later. For ten years Moses was literally unbeatable. Karsten Warholm, the 400m hurdles world-record holder, will run a rare race on the flat with no barriers in his way at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in. With both his parents being educators, Moses took academics more seriously than most youngsters, though he also competed in sports. As a kid in grade school, Moses built volcanoes, dissected frogs, collected fossils and launched homemade rockets. Moses’s streak of 122 wins in the 400 meter hurdle is the third longest winning streak in sports history and it lasted from 1977 to 1987. Edwin Corley Moses was born on Augin Dayton, Ohio.His father was a Tuskegee Airman.
