USA Championships
2011 USA Outdoor 400m champion (50.40)
2010 USA Outdoor 100m champion (11.27)
Five-time USA Outdoor 200m champion - 2004 (22.28); 2005 (22.13); 2007 (22.34); 2008 (21.82); 2009 (22.02)
2004 USA Junior 200m champion (22.28)
2003 USA Indoor 200m champion (23.14) - National High School record
International Championships
2011 World Outdoor 400m silver medalist (49.59) and 200m bronze medalist (22.42)
2008 Olympic 4X400m gold medalist (3:18.54)
Two-time Olympic 200m silver medalist - 2004 (22.18); 2008 (21.93)
Three-time World Outdoor 200m gold medalist - 2005 (22.16); 2007 (21.81); 2009 (22.02)
Two-time World Outdoor 4x100m gold medalist - 2007 (41.98); 2011 (41.56)
Three-time World Outdoor 4x400m gold medalist - 2007 (3:18.55); 2009 (3:17.83); 2011 (3:18.09)
2003 Pan American Games bronze medalist (22.93)
Awards and Honors
Three-time Jesse Owens award winner (2005, 2007, 2010)
2010 Diamond League champion in the 200m and 400m
USA Junior and high school 200m record holder (22.51)
Five-time California state prep champion (three-time 100m, two-time 200m)
2001 World Youth 100m gold medalist
About Allyson
A past 100m, 200m and 400m champion, in 2012 Felix must decide which races to focus on for London. She made history at the 2009 IAAF World Outdoor Championships by becoming the first woman ever to win three world 200-meter titles. In 2007 Felix became the second woman in history to win three gold medals at one World Championships (200m, 4x100m and 4x400m). In 2005, she went undefeated in the 200m, winning the world title and recorded the three fastest times in the world. As an 18-year-old, she won her first Olympic medal in the women’s 200m at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and secured the world junior record at 22.18. Felix actually ran faster at a meet in Mexico City in 2003 (22.11), but meet organizers had not arranged for drug testing at the meet and the time wasn't ratified by the IAAF. Her winning time at the 2004 Olympic Trials 200m (22.28) was faster than every winning time at the Olympic Games through 1976. 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 called her “chicken legs” due to her long, spindly legs. She didn’t start running track until her freshman year of high school. USA Today reported that she had leg-pressed 700 pounds on a machine and dead-lifted 245 pounds. Felix was a prep media sensation, having had front-page articles in Sports Illustrated and USA Today, among other publications.
Results
2012: 4th at USATF Classic 60m (7.11)
2011: World Outdoor 400m silver medalist (49.59), 200m bronze medalist (22.42) and 4x400m relay gold medalist (3:18.09); USA Outdoor 400m champion (50.40); 1st in 400m at Rome (49.81); 1st in 400m at Doha (50.33); 1st in 200m at adidas Grand Prix (22.92); 2nd at Monaco in 200m (22.32); 3rd in 400m at Pre Classic (51.41).
2010: USA Outdoor 100m champion (11.27); 2nd at adidas Grand Prix in 200m (22.03); 1st at Paris (22.14); 1st at Stockholm (22.41); 1st at Nike Pre Classic in 400m (50.27); 1st at Doha (50.15); 1st at Manchester 200m straight (22.55); 1st in 200m and 400m at London (22.37, 50.79)
2009: World Outdoor champion (22.02); USA Outdoor champion (22.02); 1st at adidas Track Classic (22.66); 1st in 400m at Doha (50.75); 1st in 400m at Reebok Grand Prix (50.50)...1st in Stockholm (21.88); 1st at World Athletics Final (22.29); 2nd in 400m at Zurich (49.83); 2nd at Rethymno (11.08)
2008: Olympic 4x400m gold medalist (48.55, 3:18.54) and Olympic 200m silver medalist (21.93), 1st in semifinal (22.33); Olympic Trials champion in 200m (21.82), 5th in 100m (10.96); 4th at Nike Prefontaine Classic (11.06); 5th at Reebok Grand Prix (11.13); 4th at adidas Track Classic (11.21); 1st 100m and 400m at Doha (10.93, 49.83)
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 (49.70); 2nd in 400m at London (50.17)
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 (11.04)
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 (11.05); 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 (51.12)
2004: Olympic 200m silver medalist (22.18); 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 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)
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)
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)
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)
2000: 7th at California HS champs (24.35).
USA/World Rankings and Personal Bests
2012: Indoor bests - 60m, 7.10 (No. 3 in the USA, No. 7 in the world)
2011: Outdoor bests - 200m, 22.32 (No. 5 in the USA, No. 6 in the world); 400m, 49.59 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 3 in the world)
2010: Indoor bests - 400m, 51.37 (No. 4 in the USA, No. 3 in the world); Outdoor bests - 100m, 11.27 (No. 16 in the USA); 200m, 22.03 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 2 in the world); 400m, 50.15 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 8 in the world)
2009: Outdoor bests - 100m, 11.08 (No. 6 in the USA, No. 13 in the world); 200m, 21.88 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); 400m, 49.83 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 5 in the world)
2008: Outdoor bests - 100m, 10.93 (No. 4 in the USA, No. 8 in the world); 200m, 21.93 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 2 in the world); 400m, 49.83 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 5 in the world)
2007: Outdoor bests - 100m, 11.01 (No. 4 in the USA, No. 5 in the world); 200m, 21.81 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); 400m, 49.70 (No. 3 in the USA, No. 6 in the world)
2006: Outdoor bests - 100m, 11.04 (No. 4 in the USA, No. 6 in the world); 200m, 22.11 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 2 in the world)
2005: Outdoor bests - 100m, 11.05 (No. 3 in the USA, No. 9 in the world); 200m, 22.13 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); 400m, 51.12 (No. 7 in the USA, No. 28 in the world)
2004: Outdoor bests - 100m, 11.16 (No. 10 in the USA); 200m, 22.18 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 2 in the world); 400m, 51.83 (No. 19 in the USA)
2003: Indoor bests - 200m, 23.14 (No. 6 in the USA, No. 18 in the world); Outdoor bests - 100m, 11.29 (No. 14 in the USA); 200m, 22.11 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world)
2002: Outdoor bests - 200m, 22.83 (No. 6 in the USA, No. 24 in the world)
2001: Outdoor bests - 200m, 23.31