Allyson Felix

Allyson Michael Felix was the Los Angeles native born on the 18th November 1985. Paul Felix, her father was a pastor ordained of Master's Seminary Sun Valley. Marlean Felix worked at Balboa Magnet Elementary School. Felix showed a flair in athletics from the beginning, and soon discovered her athletic abilities while she was at the Los Angeles Baptist High School. Ten weeks after the first trial she took the sport, she finished second for 200m in the U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championship. Felix was a high school graduate when she graduated from school in 2003, signed an agreement with Adidas. Then she went to an institution called the University of Southern California and studied elementary education. One year later Felix earned her first Olympic medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Greece setting an all-time junior world record taking 200 metres at 22.18 seconds. In 2005, at the Helsinki World Championships, Felix was the youngest world champion for running 200m. The following year, she won the title in front of her Jamaican opponent Veronica Campbell. Felix placed consistently within the top three throughout her competitions during the Olympics that took place at Beijing London Rio de Janeiro Tokyo.