Olympic power couple Tara Davis-Woodhall and Hunter Woodhall celebrate gold medal win

Tara Davis-Woodhall and Hunter Woodhall are a top athletics couple and are now celebrating their Olympic victory.

Davis-Woodhall won gold in the women’s long jump at the Paris Olympics on Thursday, making a comeback after finishing sixth at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Photos of Davis-Woodhall and Woodhall, who will compete in the Paralympic Games later this month, celebrating her victory quickly went viral.

“THESE ARE THE MOMENTS,” Team USA posted on Instagram alongside a photo of Davis-Woodhall hugging Woodhall in the stands at the Stade de France.

Woodhall paid tribute to his wife on Instagram on Friday, captioning a photo of the couple in front of the Eiffel Tower: “No words to describe how proud I am of you. No luck involved, you earned this. Discipline, work ethic and perseverance. These are the moments and this is your moment. Enjoy it ❤️.”

The Paris Olympics will be the second Olympic Games together for the couple, who married in 2022.

Woodhall and Davis-Woodhall’s love story began, fittingly, at a track meet when they were both seniors in high school—Davis in California and Woodhall in Utah.

“I was warming up and I saw Hunter and I was like, ‘Oh, this guy is cute,’” Davis-Woodhall previously told “Good Morning America” ​​about their 2017 meeting at a track meet in Idaho. “I didn’t know who he was, but I walked up to him as he was coming off the track after his race and gave him a hug and we started talking.”

The two stayed in touch and started dating a few months later. However, when they both started their athletic careers at university, they once again encountered the obstacle of a long-distance relationship.

Davis-Woodhall first joined the University of Georgia track and field team before transferring 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. At 11 months old, both legs were amputated below the knee.

After winning a silver and bronze medal at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Woodhall won another bronze medal in the men’s 400m T62 race at the postponed 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

Woodhall is expected to compete in several track events when the Paralympic Games kick off in Paris on August 28.

The sprinter told Team USA that he and Davis-Woodhall owe their success in part to the support they give each other.

“I definitely don’t think either of us would be at this level without the level of support that we give each other, and also the team around us,” Woodhall said. “In terms of the success, it’s super motivating because we’re doing the same thing every day — it’s just a vote of confidence that we’re doing the right things together.”