Allyson Felix's won a bronze medal running the 400 meters on Friday, making her the most decorated female track Olympian in the world and tying her with Carl Lewis for the most Olympic medals in history by a U.S. track and field athlete
TOKYO—With a haul of nine career medals, Allyson Felix was already one of the most revered Olympic track athletes in history. In the five years since the last Games she had become a mother and an activist—and turned 35 years old.
On Friday at Olympic Stadium, she ran with the same steady force of her 2004 Athens Olympics debut as an 18-year-old prodigy. Felix hung on in the Tokyo Games 400 meters for a bronze medal and strode into history. Her 10th career medal made Felix the most decorated female track Olympian in the world and tied her with Carl Lewis for the most Olympic medals in history by a U.S. track and field athlete. Among all track and field athletes, Felix and Lewis trail only the great Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi, who has 12 Olympic medals.
When she was introduced before her race on Friday, Felix received an audible round of applause from other athletes and event officials in a stadium otherwise nearly empty due to a no-spectators Covid-prevention measure. Felix has said this will be her last Games. Running outside in lane 9, Felix came down the final stretch trailing the eventual gold-medal winner, Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas. Felix kept pace with Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic and staved off a threat from Jamaica’s Stephenie Ann McPherson to grab third place.
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