Allyson Felix

Allyson Michael Felix was a Los Angeles native born on the 18th of November, 1985. Her 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 had an early aptitude for athletics when she was in high school at Los Angeles Baptist High School. Her sprinting potential at the at the time. She came second at the U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championships in only 10 weeks following the first time she tried out. Felix graduated from her high school year in 2003 and signed with Adidas a contract as a professional athlete. In the following year, she was a student at the University of Southern California studying elementary education. A year later Felix was awarded the first Olympic medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Greece making a junior world record by running 200 meters in 22.18 seconds. She was the youngest 200-meter world champion in the Helsinki World Championships. She won the title again in 2007, beating her former Jamaican rival Veronica Campbell. Felix always placed in the top third in each event she competed in at Beijing London Rio de Janeiro Tokyo.