Years active: 2000 - present (started around 14 years old; 24 years in the business)
About Allyson Felix
Allyson Michelle Felix OLY (born November 18, 1985) is an American track and field sprinter. Her main event is the 400 meters, but she has competed at the professional level in the 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters, 4x100 meter relay, and 4x400 meter relay. At 200 meters, she is the 2012 Olympic champion, a 3-time World champion (2005–2009), and 2-time Olympic silver medalist (2004 and 2008). At 400 meters, she is the 2015 World champion, 2011 World silver medalist, 2016 Olympic silver medalist, and 2017 World bronze medalist.
Felix has won five additional Olympic gold medals as a member of the United States' women's relay teams: three at 4 × 400 meters (2008-2016), and two at 4 x 100 meters (2012 and 2016). The 2012 U.S. Olympic 4 x 100 meters team also set the women's 4x100 meters world-record that still stands. Felix is the only female track and field athlete to ever win six Olympic gold medals, and is tied with Merlene Ottey as the most decorated female Olympian in track and field history, with a total of nine Olympic medals. Felix is also the most decorated athlete, male or female, in World Athletics Championships history with 18 career medals, and also has the most gold medals at 13.
Felix's 200 meters best of 21.69 secs from 2012 ranks her sixth on the all-time list. In 2013, she broke the world best for the rarely contested 150 meters distance, running 16.36 secs. In the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2015 World Championships, she ran the fastest split ever recorded by an American woman, and third fastest split ever after Jarmila Kratochvilova and Marita Koch, with 47.72. She is a participant in the US Anti-Doping Agency's "Project Believe" program. She is coached by Bobby Kersee.
Allyson Felix is included in Time magazine 's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
