Allyson Felix

Allyson Michelle Felix was born Los Angeles on November 18 1985. Her father Paul Felix is an ordained Minister in the Master's Seminary, Sun Valley. As for her mother, Marlean Felix is a teacher at Balboa Magnet Primary School. Felix showed an early aptitude for sports when she was in high school at Los Angeles Baptist High School. Her sprinting ability at the time. Only 10 weeks after her first attempt, she finished with a second-place finish in the 200-meter race in the U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championship. Felix was a high school graduate when she graduated from school in 2003 signed the sports contract with Adidas. She later attended an institution called the University of Southern California and was a teacher in the elementary school. A year later Felix won the first Olympic medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Greece setting a junior world record by taking 200 metres within 22.18 seconds. She became the youngest world winner in the 200m in the Helsinki World Championships and defended her title again in 2007, defeating her time-tested Jamaican adversary Veronica Campbell. Felix has consistently placed in the top 3 throughout her events at the Olympics that took place during Beijing London Rio de Janeiro Tokyo.