Sprinter wins gold at Paralympics after his wife won gold at Paris Olympics

American track and field stars Hunter Woodhall and Tara Davis-Woodhall are now an Olympic gold medal-winning power couple.

Woodhall won gold in the men’s 400-meter race at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris on Friday, equaling his wife’s gold medal in the women’s long jump at the Paris Olympics in August.

On Friday, Woodhall sprinted to finish first, ahead of Germany’s Johannes Floors and Netherlands’ Olivier Hendriks, the silver and bronze medalists respectively, according to the Paris Paralympics website.

Woodhall is a four-time Paralympic medalist, winning two bronze medals and one silver medal at the 2020 and 2016 Paralympic Games, according to the International Paralympic Committee.

Woodhall and Davis-Woodhall, who are marrying in 2022, made headlines at the Paris Olympics for their emotional celebration of Davis-Woodhall’s victory, her first Olympic medal.

The couple, who also participated in the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, met at a track and field competition in their senior year of high school.

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

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

Woodhall was born with fibula hemimelia, in which the fibula, a bone in his lower legs, never developed, and according to his Paralympic biography, he had to have both legs amputated below the knee at the age of 11 months.