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 have won medals, yes. But they have also won the hearts of millions of Americans.

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

The moment captured Davis-Woodhall taking another leap after her winning 23-foot jump, this time into the arms of her husband, Paralympic champion Hunter Woodhall. Videos of the warm embrace have racked up millions of views on social media.

“Honey, you’re the Olympic champion!” Woodhall was caught on camera saying.

“I haven’t been on social media that much, so I don’t know how viral it’s gone!” Davis-Woodhall told People during a recent interview. “Everyone’s told me the whole world sees it, (but) that’s just me and Hunter.”

Woodhall, a double-amputee sprinter originally from Syracuse, Utah, will get his own shot at gold at the Paralympics, which begin Aug. 28 in Paris and run through Sept. 8. A spokesman said Woodhall will compete in the men’s 100m on Sept. 1 and again on Sept. 2 if he qualifies. He will also represent Team USA in the men’s 400m and the 4x100m Universal Relay on Sept. 6.

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

After being born with a condition called fibular hemimelia, Woodhall underwent an amputation to remove his lower legs. Doctors told his parents he would never walk, a prognosis he was determined to prove wrong.

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

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

Davis-Woodhall has been involved in track and field since she was 4, thanks to her family. The youngest of five, she regularly attended her older siblings’ track meets as a child and became interested in long jumping after watching her sister compete in the event, NBC reported. Davis-Woodhall’s father, Ty Davis, coached her through high school, where she set records for the long jump and 100-meter hurdles at both the state and national levels. Davis-Woodhall now has a track meet at her high school named after her, the spokesperson said.

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 ties.

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

“I was in COVID, I was figuring out who I was and I was just focusing on my body and what I needed to do for the upcoming season,” she said. told CBS News in 2021. “And luckily my season went very well.”

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

The couple’s romance began in 2017 after they met at a high school track meet in Pocatello, Idaho. They recounted their first meeting in a YouTube video.

According to their story, Woodhall and Woodhall-Davis traveled from Utah and California for an event called the Simplot Games. There, the two, both 18 at the time, met by chance on the lawn. Woodhall was watching Davis-Woodhall run the hurdles race when he texted his friend Tucker, writing, “This is the girl I’m going to marry.” The next day, after Woodhall ran and won the 400m race, Woodhall-Davis greeted him. “I just needed a hug,” Woodhall recalled her saying. “That’s 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 sports adventures and daily life as a married couple. It currently has 863,000 subscribers.

“I think because we play each other’s sports, that’s another way we share our love,” Davis-Woodhall said in an interview shared with CBS Mornings. “We not only love each other as people, we love each other as athletes.”