Allyson Felix

Google honored Allyson Felix in a special way ahead of her final race at the 2022 track and field world championship Friday.

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The US finished in 3:10.16. The stat sheet said Felix ran her final 400 metres in 50.15 seconds. The Dominican Republic won in 3:09.82, with a margin of 0.08 seconds. Felix was entered only in the mixed relay after failing to qualify for the worlds in an individual race. Much like the end of Felix’s career, her last big evening on the track was about more than the race. But she faded after she rounded her final turn and was caught by Paulino. It still equalled Felix’s 19th medal at the World Athletics Championships, extending a record she already held.

The third-place finish still gave Felix her 19th medal at world championships, extending a record she already held.

“And to have a picture with her, that’s the most important to me. Godwin had a slim lead when he passed her the baton, and for the first 200 meters of her final lap around the track, Felix extended the margin. The U.S. finished in 3:10.16. The stat sheet said Felix ran her final 400 meters in 50.15 seconds. The Dominican Republic won in 3 minutes, 9.82 seconds, with a margin of 0.08 seconds. Felix was entered only in the mixed relay after failing to qualify for the worlds in an individual race. She has opened a better path for all of us.” The third-place finish still gave Felix her 19th medal at world championships, extending a record she already held. Some might say a bronze medal feels like a letdown for the most decorated sprinter in U.S. history. Much of that stemmed from becoming a mom, then fighting, and eventually leaving, Nike, which cut her salary while she was pregnant. No big shame, either, that the U.S., saving the rest of its vaunted star power for big races over the next nine days of this meet, finished third in the mixed 4x400 meter relay, also behind the Netherlands. So it was no huge shock that a runner 11 years her junior, Marileidy Paulino of the winning Dominican Republic team, eventually reeled her in. A few minutes later, she was taking her newly won prize and hanging it around her 3-year-old daughter's neck.

The extraordinary professional career of Felix, 36, came to an end on July 15 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, with a bronze medal—her 19th in World ...

While this was her last truly competitive event, Felix is setting up an August “street race" with Athleta in her hometown of Los Angeles “To run with this team, to end on home soil, I couldn’t have asked for more.” By then, the relationship with Felix and Nike was forever broken. Join Runner’s World+ to keep up with the latest race coverage! She ran the second leg of the mixed 4 x 400-meter relay, a newer event that was first contested on a world stage in 2017 and became part of the Worlds schedule in 2019. She funded childcare for women at last month’s U.S. championships. “I never really hear too much when I’m running, but tonight I did,” she said after the race in a conversation with reporters under the stadium. She gave birth to a daughter, Camryn, in 2018. The U.S. settled for bronze. Felix split 50.15 to Paulina’s 48.47. Vernon Norwood ran a strong third leg, putting the U.S. back in the lead, but the young U.S. anchor, 22-year-old Kennedy Simon, couldn’t quite hold on. She wanted her long-time sponsor, Nike, to continue to pay her through time off with a newborn, and the company wouldn’t do it. Throughout her career, when she’s been on relays, she typically has run the second leg.

Allyson Felix brought the curtain down on her brilliant career by securing a 19th World Championships medal as the United States took bronze in the 4x400m ...

"This is our country`s first medal at the world championships and I hope it won`t be the last one." Poland`s Katarzyna Zdzieblo claimed silver and China`s Qieyang Shijie took bronze. Allyson Felix brought the curtain down on her brilliant career by securing a 19th World Championships medal as the United States took bronze in the 4x400m mixed relay in Eugene, Oregon on Friday. Running in her final major championship race before she retires, Felix was cheered on by a sparse home crowd as she took the baton for the second leg, but the 36-year-old missed out on a golden farewell after the United States finished third.

Felix won yet another world championship medal, her 19th. “I think I felt all the emotions,” she said of her final competitive race.

And I’m not that emotional of a person,” she said. “The first thing I think I felt was lactic acid,” she said of handing off the baton to Vernon Norwood. “But after that, just joy.” “I think I felt all the emotions. She leaves behind an unmatchable legacy, having won yet another world championship medal, her 19th, extending her record for the most medals at the world championships. In the moments after the race, opposing athletes approached her for photos, handshakes and fist bumps. “A lot of people were like, Oh, it’ll be amazing to end at home, on home soil in Oregon.”

The American 'felt the love, felt the joy' as she took a world championship bronze in the final race of her career, the 4x4oom mixed relay.

Asked on Friday night what message she would tell her young self, Felix replied: “Every defeat, every failure, is an opportunity to get better. Just seeing the confidence that she had was amazing.” “But the work that Right to Play does is so much more important. Felix leaves her sport having hoarded a stupendous tally of 30 Olympic and world championship medals over the past 18 years, a tally that may never be beaten. “The last couple of years I have stepped outside of just the clock and the medals,” she said after the race. But greatness is not measured on one stopwatch but over many and few can match Felix’s longevity, her range of events or her voice on important issues. And what I hope to do from now on is to really support female and mum athletes and carry on the childcare initiative I have. She is loving her best life.” “And so I feel really proud tonight, and fulfilled.” “She is three. She was still beaming deep into the night when she spoke movingly about inspiring her three-year-old daughter, Camryn, who watched on. “She is getting ice cream,” Felix shot back, laughing.