Allyson Felix

ALLYSON FELIX
Events: 200mHeight: 5-6Weight: 125PRs: 100m - 11.01 (2007); 200m - 21.81 (2007); 400m - 49.70 (2007)Born: November 18, 1985 in Los Angeles, Calif.Current Residence: Los Angeles, Calif.High School: Los Angeles Baptist HS (Calif.) '03Coach: Bob KerseeAgent: Renaldo NehemiahClub: adidas
Career Highlights: 2-time World Outdoor 200m champion ('05, '07); 2007 World Outdoor 4x100m and 4x400m gold medalist; 3-time USA Outdoor 200m champion (’04, ’05, '07); 2004 Olympic 200m silver medalist; World Junior record holder; 2004 USA junior champion; 2003 USA Indoor champion; 2003 Pan American Games bronze medalist; Five-time California state prep champion (three-time 100m, two-time 200m); 2001 World Youth 100m gold medalist
At the 2007 IAAF World Outdoor Championships, Felix is second woman in history to win 3 gold medals at one World Championships. With 75 meters remaining in the women's 200m Felix simply took off, striding to the gold medal and a huge personal best of 21.81 seconds (1.7 mps wind), the fastest time run by a woman this century. The time improved Felix's previous best by .30 and defeated Campbell in second (22.34) by an astounding .53, the biggest margin of victory in World Championships history. She then went on to win gold in both relays, running the second leg of the 4x100m (41.98) and the 4x400m (3:18.55) with perhaps the fastest 4x400m relay leg ever by an American woman at a major championship (unofficially 48.0)...Felix raced to her third USA Outdoor title in 2007. At the end of a season of illness and injury, Felix returned to form in the women's 200 meters at the 2006 World Athletics Final, winning in a meet record 22.11. She then went on to place third in the 100m with in 11.07…2005 was a phenomenal year for Felix, who was undefeated in the 200, won the world title, set personal bests at 100 and 400 meters, and earned the Jesse Owens Award as the country’s top female athlete. She won her second straight national title in the 2005 Visa 200 meters at the USA Outdoor Championships (22.13WL), then came from behind to win the world title in Helsinki in 22.16. On the year, Felix owned the three fastest times in the world in 2005… From 2003 to 2004, Felix went from being a national-caliber junior athlete to a world junior record-breaker, World Championships competitor, and Olympic 200m silver medalist…as an 18-year-old, she won her first Olympic medal in the women’s 200m in Athens and secured the world junior record that she had waited a year to officially break, clocking 22.18…the performance gave Felix, the youngest person on the U.S. team, the world junior record by .01 seconds. She beat the existing record of 22.19, set in 1980 by the Soviet Union’s Natalya Bochina. Ironically, her time of 22.18 was not a personal best for Felix…On May 3, 2003, she ran 22.11 in Mexico City, but because meet organizers did not arrange in advance for drug testing at the meet, it could not be officially ratified by the IAAF…Felix won the 2004 Olympic Trials 200m (22.28) a time that was faster than every winning time at the Olympic Games through 1976, and it bests the 1996 gold medal-winning time of France’s Marie Jose Perec by .01 seconds…at the 2003 USA Indoor Championships, she tied the U.S. high school record in the 200 with her time of 23.22 in the semifinals, then broke the record in the finals with her win in 23.14 seconds…outdoors in 2003, her 22.51 clocking at the Mt. SAC Relays on April 19 broke Marion Jones’ previous USA junior and high school record of 22.58, set in 1992…ran a wind-aided 11.12 100m on May 30 in Cerritos, Calif., at the California masters meet…her time of 22.52 in winning the California state title broke Marion Jones’ high school federation record for the fastest time ever run in a high school-only competition…Felix won her first California high school championship as a sophomore in 2001, when she won the 100…as a junior in 2002, she won the 100 and 200, both with U.S.-leading times among junior (19-and-under) athletes…her father Paul, is an ordained minister who teaches New Testament Greek at the Master’s Seminary in Sun Valley, Calif…her mother, Marlean, is an elementary school teacher…high school teammates call her “chicken legs” due to her long, spindly legs…didn’t start running track until her freshman year of high school…USA Today reported that she has leg-pressed 700 pounds on a machine and dead-lifted 245…Felix was a prep media sensation, having had front-page articles in Sports Illustrated and USA Today, among other publications…an extensive profile of Felix was featured by CNN on June 10, 2003…attends the University of Southern California, where her older brother, Wes was the 2002 USA junior champion at 200 meters (21.57)…after the 2003 season, Felix switched coaches, moving from Pat Connolly to Bobby Kersee. Her 2005 performances helped make Kersee the 2005 Nike Coach of the Year ...web site is www.allysonfelixusa.com.
2007: World Outdoor 200m champion (21.81)...World Outdoors 4x100m (41.98) and 4x400m gold medalist (2nd leg - 48.0, 3:18.55)…USA Outdoor 200m champion (22.34) and 4th place 100m (11.25)…1st in 400m, 3rd in 100m at Reebok Grand Prix (50.53, 11.01)…1st in 200m at adidas Track Classic (22.18)… 1st in 300m at Tyson Invitational (36.33iAR)…1st at Sheffield (22.35)…2nd in 100m at Rethimno (11.11)…1st in 400m at Stockholm (49.70PR)…2nd in 400m at London (50.17)…ranked #1 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 200m, #3 in the world (#2 U.S.) at 400m and #6 in the world (#4 U.S.) at 100m by T&FN…bests of 21.81, 49.70 and 11.01. 2006: 1st in 200m, 3rd in 100m at World Athletics Final (22.11, 11.07)...5th at Stockholm (22.71)...6th at London (11.33)...1st at Madrid (22.73)...1st at Doha (22.78)...1st at Norwich Union (22.19)...1st at Kansas Relays (11.04PR)…ranked # 1 in the world (#1 U.S.) at 200m and #6 in the world (#4 U.S.) in 100m by T&FN…bests of 22.11, 11.04. 2005: 200m World Outdoor Champion (22.16)...1st in 200m at USA Outdoor Champs (22.13)...1st in 200m at adidas Track Classic (22.14)...3rd in 100m at Rome (11.14)...3rd in 100m at Stockholm (11.29)...7th in 100m at Zurich (11.18)...1st in 100m at Yokohama (11.05PR)...1st in 200m at Doha (22.78)...1st in 200m at Monterrey (22.31)...1st in 200m at World Athletics Final (22.27)...1st at Norwich Union (51.12PR)...ranked #1 in the world (#1 U.S.) in 200m and #9 in the world (#4 U.S.) in 100m by T&FN...bests of 11.05 in 100m and 22.13 in 200m.2004: Olympic 200m silver medalist (22.18 WJ)...Olympic Trials 200m champion (22.28)...USA Junior 200m champion (22.73)...2nd in 100m at Modesto (11.19)...2nd in 100m at Mt. Sac (11.14w)...3rd in 200m at Payton Jordan US Open (22.71)...3rd at adidas Oregon Track Classic (23.12)...2nd in 400m in Mexico City (51.83)...1st Linz 100m in PR 11.16...7th in 60m at USA Indoors (7.33)...2nd in 400m at adidas Boston Indoor Games (52.28)...5th in 60m at Verizon Millrose Games (7.36)...ranked #2 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 22.18.2003: USA Indoors 200m champion (23.14 national HS record)...Pan American Games 200m Bronze medalist (22.93)...3rd at USA Outdoors 200m (22.59)...3rd in Paris on July 4 200m (22.66)...6th in heat 3 at World Outdoor Championships 200m (23.33)....1st in Mexico City 200m (22.11 U.S. junior record, faster than existing WJR)...1st at Mt. SAC Relays in 200m (22.51 U.S. junior record) and 100m HS (11.24w)...ran 23.22 in semis at USA Indoors to tie previous HS record...3rd in semifinal heat at World Indoors (23.29)...1st at Pasadena Games in 400m (52.26)...won the California state high school championships 100m (11.29), 200m (22.52)...ranked #8 in the world (#3 U.S.) at 200m by T&FNbests of 11.29, 22.11, 52.26.2002: Runner-up at USA junior champs (23.31)...5th at World Juniors (23.48)...won California HS titles at 100m (11.40) and 200m (22.83, fastest by a U.S. junior in 2002)...bests of 11.40 and 22.83.2001: Won 100m at the 2001 World Youth Athletics (11.57)...ran the 200 leg on Team USAs winning Sprint Medley Relay (2:03.82)...Won California HS title at 100m (11.61), second in 200 (23.27)...won the 200m at Youth Athletics nationals (23.82)...bests of 11.51 and 23.31.2000: 7th at California HS champs (24.35).