Gold-medal winning couple on their dual Paris victories

Husband and wife Hunter and Tara Davis-Woodhall were determined to win dual gold medals at the Olympics and Paralympics in 2024, and they achieved their feat, much to the delight of romantics around the world.
Hunter secured gold in the men’s 400-metre T62 event at the Paralympics on September 6 while Tara proudly watched on.
Following his race Hunter, 25, ran straight to Tara, who was in the stands.
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Tara, also 25, was heard telling her husband, “I’m so proud of you.”
During the Olympics, Tara also scored gold in the women’s long jump.
She, too, ran to her spouse following the event and the couple embraced as fans watched on.
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Hunter, a double amputee, told PEOPLE he and Tara listened to music together the morning of his gold medal win.
He said “the energy was right” the day of the race and that “we had a really good vibe.”
“Mentally, I was so prepared, because of my team that’s around me and everything we’ve done this year,” he said.
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“We’ve sacrificed so much and worked so hard every single day.
“We’ve shown up, done our best and I knew that I’d done everything that I needed to put myself in a good position, and the rest was just about letting it happen.”
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Tara told PEOPLE she knew Hunter was going to win his race as soon as he came off the curb.
“We’ve just been thinking about this moment for so long, so like, for it to be playing out in front of me, I was like, ‘oh my gosh, there’s no going back now,'” she told the publication.
“I didn’t really want to process [my win] a month ago because I wanted to do it together.”
Hunter said he is “proud to be a Paralympian and I’m proud of the Paralympics.
“And the same with Tara; she wants to grow the sport of long jump and get people involved in what we love so much,” he said.
“We trusted that everything was going to work out the way it needed to, and we just had to show up, do our best and enjoy it.”
Hunter and Tara first met at a track meet in 2017. At the time they were attending different universities. Hunter was at Arkansas and Tara was at Texas.
They formed a strong friendship, supporting each other’s journeys.
Soon, they began dating. The couple wed in 2022 and train side by side.
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