Allyson Felix

Allyson Nicole Felix was born on the 18th of November the 18th of November, 1985, at Los Angeles. Paul Felix, the father of Allyson Michelle Felix, is a minister at Master's Seminary Sun Valley. Marlean Felix works as a primary school teacher in Balboa Magnet. Felix's athletic talent was apparent from the time she started attending Los Angeles Baptist High School. Ten weeks after the first time she tried out, she was ranked 2nd in the 200m race in the U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championship. Felix graduated from high school in 2003 and became a part of Adidas an agreement as an athlete in professional competition. Following that, she enrolled at the University of Southern California studying elementary education. One year later Felix earned her first Olympic medal during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Greece setting the world junior record taking 200 metres in 22.18 seconds. Felix was also the youngest to win the 200 meter during the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005. She won her medal the following year, beating her long-time Jamaican opponent Veronica Campbell. Felix always placed in the top three in all of her races in Beijing London Rio de Janeiro Tokyo.