Background
He was born in Chicago, Illinois.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois.
He broke the indoor world record for the 50 meter hurdles in 1985 (635 seconds) and tied that mark in 1987. He also broke the 60 meter hurdle indoor world record in 1987 with a time of 7.36. He was the American Record Holder in the 110 meter hurdles at 13.22 seconds while competing for University of California, Los Angeles, second at the time only to Cuba"s world record holder Alejandro Casañas.
His personal best time for the 110 meter hurdles was 13.03, run at the Weltklasse Zürich meet in 1981 in which Renaldo Nehemiah became the first man the break the 13 second barrier, with his 12.93.
This once again made Foster the second-fastest hurdler of all time. Foster was ranked in the top ten hurdlers in the world for 15 out of 16 years 1977 to 1992.
Five of those years, he was ranked number one, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987 and 1991. Foster was suspended from athletics for almost 6 months in 1990 after testing positive for pseudo ephedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine.