Allyson Felix

Allyson Melissa Felix was born at Los Angeles, California on November 18, 1985. The father of the child, Paul Felix is an ordained minister in the Master's Seminary, Sun Valley. Her mother Marlean Felix is a teacher at Balboa Magnet Primary School. Felix was an athlete of the highest level and developed a passion of sprinting while in the sprints at Los Angeles Baptist High School. Ten weeks after the first trial she took the sport, she finished 2nd in the 200m race in the U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championship. In 2003 Felix completed her high school graduation having signed a professional contract with the company that makes sports Adidas and then enrolled in the University of Southern California where she studied elementary education. Felix was awarded her first Olympic Medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics held at Athens Greece. She set a Junior World Record by taking 200m in 22.18 seconds. In 2005, at the Helsinki World Championships, Felix was the youngest world champion for the distance of 200 meters. She won the title in 2007. won the title in front of her Jamaican opponent Veronica Campbell. Felix competed at Beijing London Rio de Janeiro Tokyo and has consistently ranked within the top three athletes in her respective events.