Allyson Felix
Allyson Nicole Felix was born on November 18 of 1985 at Los Angeles. Felix's father 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 showed an early aptitude for sports when she was attending Los Angeles Baptist High School. Her sprinting talent at that moment. In just 10 weeks following her first attempt, she finished third in the 200m race during the U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championship. Felix was a high school graduate when she graduated from school in 2003, signed a sports contract with Adidas. After that, she enrolled at the University of Southern California and completed her studies in elementary education. A year later Felix won her very first Olympic medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Greece setting an all-time junior world record running 200 meters with a time of 22.18 seconds. Felix became the world's youngest athlete to win the 200 meters in the Helsinki World Championships and defended her title in 2007, defeating her time-tested Jamaican competitor Veronica Campbell. Felix has consistently placed among the top 3 athletes in her various events at the Olympics which took place at Beijing London Rio de Janeiro Tokyo.





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