Olympian Allyson Felix breaks Usain Bolt’s record for world championship medals

U.S. Olympic team sprinter Allyson Felix won a 12th world track and field title breaking a tie the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt, cementing a monumental comeback and her first gold medal after becoming a mom. She joined in the first mixed-gender 4×400-meter relay at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar Felix ran a 50.4-second split, or time she completed her leg of the relay. The nine-time Olympic gold medalist surprised her fans late last year when she gave birth to her baby girl Camryn last November, but she suffered medical complications that sent her into labor eight weeks early. Felix became the first athlete since Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988 to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games.

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