Allyson Felix
Allyson Michel Felix was born the 18th of November 1985, in Los Angeles. Paul Felix, her father was an ordained minister of Master's Seminary Sun Valley. Marlean Felix worked at Balboa Magnet Elementary School. Felix was an athletically inclined child and found her passion to sprint in the sprints at Los Angeles Baptist High School. Ten weeks after the first attempt she made, she was ranked 2nd in the 200m race at the U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championship. Felix finished high school in 2003, and signed with Adidas to become a professional athlete. Following that, she enrolled at the University of Southern California studying elementary education. The following year, Felix was awarded her very first Olympic medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Greece setting an all-time junior world record taking 200 metres within 22.18 seconds. At the 2005 Helsinki World Championships, Felix was the youngest world champion in the 200m. In 2007, she defended the title against her Jamaican opponent Veronica Campbell. Felix consistently placed within the top third of each of her events in Beijing London Rio de Janeiro Tokyo.





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