Allyson Felix, Serena Williams, Gabby Douglas lead Olympic and Paralympic
Allyson Felix, Serena Williams and Gabby Douglas heading the 2025 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame class.Felix won a female
track and field record 11 Olympic medals and 7 golds from 2004 through 2021. Williams made four Olympic gold medals between singles and doubles, connecting older sister Venus for the most for a tennis player.In 2012, Douglas ended up being the first Black female to win an Olympic all-around gymnastics title. She included group gold in 2012 and 2016 and returned to competition last year for the very first time considering that the Rio Games.Felix and Williams, who both retired in 2022, and Douglas are participated in the Class of 2025 by Olympians Bode Miller(Alpine snowboarding, 6 medals), Kerri Walsh Jennings(beach volley ball, 4 medals), Anita DeFrantz(rowing, one medal, long time IOC member)and Flo Hyman(volley ball, one medal)and Paralympians Susan Hagel (3 sports, 5 medals ), Marla Runyan(track and field, 6 medals, also contended at 2000 Olympics)and Steve Cash (sled hockey, 4 medals). DeFrantz and Hyman made it in the legend category.The 2010 Olympic four-man bobsled team led by Steven Holcomb and the 2004 Paralympic females’s wheelchair basketball team, each gold medalists, made it in the group category.Mike Krzyzewski made the class in the coach classification after leading the males’s basketball team to Olympic titles in 2008, 2012 and 2016.
Nike founder Phil Knight made it as an unique contributor.The inductees were picked by a ballot process that consisted of Olympians and Paralympians, members of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic household and an online vote available to fans.They will be inducted July 12 in Colorado Springs.This is the first Hall of Fame class considering that 2022, when a group consisting of Michael Phelps was inducted. Formerly, there were yearly classes
from 1983-92 and biennial classes from 2004-12 before Hall of
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