Felisha Johnson

Felisha Nayomie Johnson (born July 24, 1989) is an American track and field athlete who specialises in the shot put.

She broke through in the 2011 season, winning the weight throw at the 2011 NCAA Women's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships with a personal best of 22.69 m (74 ft 5+1⁄4 in).

She won the weight throw at the NCAA Indoor Championships for a second time with a new best of 23.52 m (77 ft 1+3⁄4 in) – this moved her up to tenth on the all-time lists.

[1] Her last appearances as a college athlete came at the 2013 Summer Universiade, where on her international debut for the United States she placed seventh in the shot put.

[8] Johnson achieved her first national title at the 2015 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, edging Jeneva Stevens in the weight throw by two centimetres through a personal record of 23.45 m (76 ft 11 in).

[9] She competed on the international Diamond League circuit for the first time and set her season's best mark of 18.73 m (61 ft 5+1⁄4 in) in Beijing, where she was third.

A personal record of 23.53 m (77 ft 2+1⁄4 in) in the weight throw at the 2016 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships brought her only third behind Gwen Berry and Amber Campbell in a high quality competition.