Hunter Woodhall sprints to victory in men’s 400m T62 to claim first gold medal at Paralympic Games

It should not come as a shock that the couple will put on matching medals, particularly since they have been joined on the hip for a lot of the summer season. The pair attended one another’s Olympic and Paralympic trials, created vidoes for his or her social media accounts whereas coaching, and even manifested their indiviudal success in similar format forward of their finals at Paris 2024.

“Tara has taught me so much about self-affirmation,” defined Woodhall. “Earlier than the Olympics, she was writing in her journal, ‘I would be the Olympic champ’. And ‘I’m sturdy, I’m quick’.

“I’ve had my journal right here and I wrote in it at this time, ‘I would be the Paralympic champion’. And now I’m,” proclaimed the 25-year-old.

He praised Davis-Woodhall for her help throughout the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games, stating, “She’s so humble. She simply, like, actually took a backseat after successful the Olympic title and humbled herself, and simply actually took a while to place that vitality again into me figuring out that I had one thing developing. Now I am blissful that we are able to have a good time collectively.”

They’ve trigger for additional celebration after Woodhall added an extra bronze medal to his assortment as a part of Group USA’s 4x100m common relay squad that completed third simply over an hour after his victory within the males’s 400m T62 last. He leaves Paris with 5 medals to his identify on the Paralympic Video games, together with his first-ever gold medal.