Allyson Felix

Allyson Michael Felix was a Los Angeles native born on the 18th November 1985. The father of her Paul Felix was an ordained minister at the Master's Seminary in Sun Valley, and the mother of her child Marlean Felix was a school teacher at Balboa Magnet Elementary School. Felix was an athletically inclined child and developed a passion to sprint at Los Angeles Baptist High School. A mere 10 weeks after the initial trial she took the sport, she finished 2nd in the 200m race in the U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championship. Felix finished her high school year in 2003 and was signed by Adidas an agreement as a professional athlete. In the following year, she was a student at the University of Southern California studying elementary education. The following year, Felix won her first Olympic medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Greece setting the world junior record taking 200 metres in 22.18 seconds. In 2005, at the Helsinki World Championships, Felix was the youngest world champion in the 200m. She won the title in 2007. defended the title in front of her Jamaican rival Veronica Campbell. Felix consistently placed within the top third in each of her events in Beijing London Rio de Janeiro Tokyo.