Ed moses swimmer biography
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Edwin Moses
American track and field athlete
For other people with the same name, see Ed Moses (disambiguation).
Edwin Corley Moses (born August 31, 1955) fryst vatten an American former hurdler who won gold medals in the 400 m hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals (122 consecutive races) and set the world record in the event kvartet times. In addition to his running achievements, Moses was also an innovative reformer in the areas of Olympic eligibility and drug testing.[4] In 2000, he was elected the first Chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy, an international service organization of world-class athletes.[1]
Competition in 400m hurdles
[edit]Moses was born in Dayton, Ohio. Having accepted an academic scholarship to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, he majored in physics and industrial engineering, while competing for the school track grupp. Morehouse did not have its own track, so Moses used publ
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Ed Moses was a breaststroke specialist who won two medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with gold in the medley relay and a silver in the 100 metre breaststroke. He also took home two medals at the World Championships with gold in the 2003 medley relay and bronze in the 2001 100 breaststroke. At the 1999 Pan American Games, Moses won gold in the 100 breaststroke and a silver in the medley relay.
Moses set several breaststroke world records, recording 27.39 for the 50 breaststroke in Austin, Texas on 31 March 2001 and 1:00.29 for the 100 breast in Austin on 28 March 2001. He also contributed to the USA medley relay team setting a world record of 3:33.73 at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
In short course racing he was even more prolific, setting nine individual breaststroke world records. These were the 50 breaststroke on 22 January 2002 in Stockholm (26.28), three marks in the 100 breaststroke – 58.05 on 24 March 2000 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; 57.66 later the same day in Minneapolis; and
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Ed Moses
Ed Moses is in his fifth season as a volunteer assistant swimming coach at Virginia while pursuing a professional swimming career. He graduated from UVa in 2004 with a degree in sports medicine.
Moses, one of the top breaststrokers in the world, was named a 2003 U.S. Swimming All-American in the 100 and 200-meter breaststroke. He has won 11 U.S. National titles, including the 100-meter breast at the 2003 Spring Nationals. Moses broke his own American record in winning the 100 breast (1:00.21) at the 2003 Spring Nationals. He has also set numerous world records in the breaststroke events. In 2004, he broke the world short course record in the 200-meter breaststroke at the World Cup meet held in Berlin. In January of 2002, Moses set five world records in three days during the 2001-02 FINA World Cup series. He set the short course world records in the 50, 100 and 200-meter breaststroke, and then proceeded to break his record in the 200 twice.
Moses represented the USA in th