Hunter Woodhall is preparing for the Paralympics after watching his wife Tara Davis-Woodhall win gold at the Paris Games

Hunter Woodhall and Tara Davis-Woodhall may have won medals, but they also captured the hearts of millions of Americans.

The track and field stars, already a rising internet sensation, sparked a new wave of admiration after a video of the pair celebrating Davis-Woodhall’s gold win in the women’s long jump went viral during the Paris Games.

At that moment, after the 7.00-meter jump, Davis-Woodhall jumped after her again, this time into the arms of her husband, Paralympic champion Hunter Woodhall. Videos of the warm embrace have been viewed millions of times on social media.

“Baby, you’re an Olympic champion!” Woodhall said loudly and clearly on camera.

“I haven’t been on social media that much, so I don’t know how viral it went!” Davis-Woodhall said in a recent interview with People. “Everyone told me the whole world saw it, [but] it’s just Hunter and me.”

Woodhall, a double-leg amputee sprinter from Syracuse, Utah, has his own chance to compete for gold at the Paralympics, which began in Paris on Aug. 28 and run through Sept. 8. According to a spokesman, Woodhall will compete in the men’s 100-meter dash on Sept. 1 and, if he qualifies, again on Sept. 2. He will also represent Team USA in the men’s 400-meter dash and the 4×100-meter relay on Sept. 6.

Woodhall left Paris on August 11 to complete his preparations and arrived back in the City of Light on August 26, according to the spokesman. His wife, who was in Rome for the Rome Diamond League, was due to return to Woodhall on Saturday, the spokesman said.

Woodhall was born with a condition called fibular hemimelia and had to have his lower legs amputated. Doctors told his parents he would never walk again. He wanted to disprove that prognosis.

“They said I would never walk, so I learned to walk instead,” Woodhall’s Instagram bio reads.

The Paralympic athlete began his athletics career in fifth grade and became the first double amputee athlete to receive a D-1 scholarshipcompeting for the University of Arkansas.

Davis-Woodhall has been involved in the world of track and field since she was four years old, thanks to her family. The youngest of five siblings, she regularly attended her older siblings’ track meets as a child and became interested in long jump after seeing her sister compete in the event, according to NBC. Davis-Woodhall’s father, Ty Davis, was her coach throughout high school, where she set records in the long jump and 100-meter hurdles at both the state and national levels. According to the spokesperson, her high school now has a track and field invitational named after Davis-Woodhall.

The California native attended the University of Georgia before transferring to the University of Texas, where she competed in the long jump and hurdles. She brings a cowboy hat to her competitions to honor her Texas roots.

Davis-Woodhall made her Olympic debut at the 2021 Tokyo Games after recovering from a series of injuries, including two broken vertebrae, a broken ankle and a broken hip.

“I sat in COVID, figured out who I was, and listened to my body and what I needed to do for the upcoming season,” she said said CBS News in 2021. “And luckily my season went really well.”

In addition to the long jump, she competed in the 60 m and 100 m hurdles, the triple jump and the women’s 200 m dash for USA Track & Field.

The couple’s romance began in 2017 after they met at a high school track and field competition in Pocatello, Idaho. In a YouTube video, they talk about their first meeting.

According to her, Woodhall was traveling from Utah and Woodhall-Davis from California for an event called the Simplot Games. There, the two, both 18 at the time, met by chance on the track’s grass. Woodhall was watching Davis-Woodhall hurdling when he texted his friend Tucker, “That’s the girl I’m going to marry.” The next day, after Woodhall ran and won the 400-meter race, Woodhall-Davis greeted him. “I just needed a hug,” Woodhall recalled her saying. “That’s really how we met,” he said.

The two married in Texas in 2022 and now live in Arkansas. They run a popular YouTube channel called “Tara and Hunter” that documents their sporting endeavors and daily life as a married couple. It currently has 863,000 subscribers.

“I think it’s another way of sharing our love when we play the same sport as each other,” Davis-Woodhall said in an interview with CBS Mornings. “We love each other not only as people, but as athletes.”