Bragging Rights H Won Olympic gold in the 200m (21.88), 4x400m (3:16.87) and 4x100m (40.82WR)
H Olympic Trials 200m champion (21.69) and tied for third in 100m (11.09) H Became the fourth fastest woman in history in the 200m and the fastest American since 1998
To be the best in the world takes many things coming together at the right moment. It takes talent, it takes sacrifice and it takes perfect execution. But to come back time and time again as the best in the world takes a legend.
Coming into this Olympic year, Allyson Felix already had 13 Olympic and World Championships medals, but there was one thing missing from her trophy case – an individual Olympic gold.
On the road to London, the normally effervescent Felix was all business at the U.S. Olympic Trials. At the starting line of the 200m final, the cameras panned across Felix’s lane, where she stood with her hands on her hips and fire in her eyes. Moments later she bolted from the blocks to smash Florence Griffith- Joyner’s 24-year-old Olympic Trials record with a huge smile across her face.
In London, Felix again added her name to the record books next to Flo-Jo’s as she became the first women since Griffith-Joyner
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to win three gold medals in a single Games. She finally won her long awaited gold in the 200m and was part of a world record-setting 4x100m relay.
Felix continues to leave the legends in her wake as she now becomes the winningest athlete in the history of the Jesse Owens Award, taking home the honor for the fourth time in her career.