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Legends Hall of Fame Inductee

Edwin Moses

Track & Field icon, Edwin Moses, won Olympic gold medals in 1976 and 1984, three
World Cup titles, two World Championships, and broke the World Record four times as
a 400-meter hurdler. He remained undefeated in 122 consecutive races spanning nine
years, nine months, and nine days.

Known as The Thinking Man’s Athlete ™, Moses is a physicist with an MBA degree. He
has contributed pioneering work against the use of performance enhancing drugs at the
USOC, IOC, USADA, and WADA in various capacities. Moses has cemented his place as a
global sports icon through his work as Chairman of the Laureus Sport for Good Founda-
Edwin Moses tion, an association of sporting legends, which uses the positive influence of sport as a
Olympian powerful tool for social change around the globe.

These areas of professional concentration have fed Moses’ lifelong passion for STEM,
Governance, and Executive Leadership. Now, he is using his unique experience and
perspective having made history in these areas, to edify and electrify audiences all over
the world. He attended Morehouse College where he earned a B.S. in Physics and went
on to receive his MBA from Pepperdine University and the degree of Doctor of Science,
honoris causa, from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Edwin is the proud father to
son, Julian (23).

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