Athletics – Worlds: Allyson Felix goes on a bronze medal – rts.ch

And 19 for Allyson Felix! The American bid farewell to the track with her 19th and final World Championship medal. The Californian sprinter won this medal, in bronze, with the mixed 4x400m relay.

At 36 and following a 20-year career, Allyson Felix has 13 gold medals among his 19 world awards, plus 11 Olympic medals, including 7 titles, from Athens in 2004 to Tokyo last summer. For her last lap, the American, launched in the lead in the position of 2nd torchbearer, was carried by an ovation from the public at Hayward Field, which was not enough to allow her to pass the baton in front. The stadium was already largely empty when she received her medal a few minutes later.

An icon on and off the track

A sprinting icon whose incomparable, ample and fluid stride has made her reputation, Allyson Felix took on another dimension in the last part of her career, following giving birth to her daughter Camryn at the end of 2018: when Nike, her long-time equipment supplier date, intended to reduce her emoluments by 70%, she spoke publicly to denounce the policy of the giant of the global sports industry towards pregnant sportswomen.

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