Sprinter wins gold at Paralympic Games after woman wins gold medal at Paris Olympics

American track and field stars Hunter Woodhall and Tara Davis-Woodhall are now a two-time Olympic gold medal-winning couple.

Woodhall won gold in the men’s 400 metres on Friday at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games, matching the gold medal his wife won in the women’s long jump at the Paris Olympics in August.

On Friday, Woodhall sprinted to first place, ahead of Germany’s Johannes Floors and Netherlands’ Olivier Hendriks, who won silver and bronze respectively, according to the Paris Paralympic Games website.

Later in the day, he was part of the American team that won a bronze medal in the 4x100m universal relay.

According to the International Paralympic Committee, Woodhall is now a five-time Paralympic medalist, having also won two bronze medals and a silver medal at the 2020 and 2016 Paralympic Games.

Woodhall and Davis-Woodhall, who married in 2022, went viral during the Paris Olympics thanks to their emotional celebration of Davis-Woodhall’s win, her first Olympic medal.

The couple, who also competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, met at a high school track meet when they were in their senior year.

Davis-Woodhall joined the University of Georgia track and field team and then transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, where she completed her collegiate career in 2021.

Woodhall competed in track and field at the University of Arkansas, where he made history as the first double amputee athlete to receive a Division I athletic scholarship.

Woodhall was born with fibular hemimelia, a condition in which the calf bone in his lower legs never formed. According to his Paralympic biography, both legs were amputated below the knee at the age of 11 months.