Paralympian Hunter Woodhall Reveals If He Made Himself Taller with His Prosthetics
Paralympian Hunter Woodhall Reveals If He Made Himself Taller with His Prosthetics
Natasha DyeFri, March 13, 2026 at 8:44 PM UTC
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Hunter Woodhall on Nov. 14, 2024 in Los AngelesCredit: Lila Seeley/FilmMagic -
Paralympic gold medalist Hunter Woodhall explained in an Instagram Reel how he chooses his height with his prosthetics
Woodhall said, "No one believes I'm 6-foot-2," and joked that followers claimed his 5-foot-4 wife Tara Davis-Woodhall was over 6 ft. tall
The Paralympic champ revealed that he chooses his height in proportion to his wingspan
Paralympic champion Hunter Woodhall is sharing insight into how he chose his height with his prosthetics.
Woodhall, 27, said he "had to come with receipts" in the caption of his Instagram Reel on Monday, March 9, which featured his wife, Olympic gold medalist Tara Davis-Woodhall, measuring his wingspan to explain how he determines his height.
"No one believes that I'm 6-foot-2 in the comments," Woodhall said in the video, joking that "everyone thinks Tara is 6-foot-2." Davis-Woodhall, 26, stands at 5-foot-4, however.
Hunter Woodhall on Sept. 16, 2025 in JapanCredit: Hannah Peters/Getty
Woodhall told viewers he brought his tape measurer out "for a few things" in the video. "People were also asking me how I decide my height and one of the ways is by wingspan," he explained.
Davis-Woodhall, who married the Paralympian on Oct. 16, 2022 in McKinney, Texas, showed herself measuring Woodhall's wingspan and said, "We're not cheating," in the video.
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Woodhall admitted he had shoes on during the measurement, but said, "they're Metcons, so like, a super small heel." He concluded the video by saying, "So, I can choose my height. but I choose to be pretty close to my wingspan."
Woodhall has lived most of his life without legs — he was born with fibula hemimelia, a shortening or nonexistence of the fibula bone, and his parents decided to have his legs amputated when the future Paralympian was 11 months old.
Woodhall made his first Paralympic team for the 2016 Rio Games, where he nabbed his first medal, a bronze. At the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games, he achieved a lifelong dream with a gold-medal win in the 400-meter T62 event, just a few weeks after Woodhall-Davis won her first gold at the Paris Olympics in long jump.
The gold medal-winning couple officially started dating in 2017 while they were students at different universities, forcing them to navigate long distance at the start of their relationship.
Woodhall recently told PEOPLE of the start of their romance: "Whether we were driving on a train, on a plane, we would just put forward the effort to see each other, and that translated into our careers and our lives. It's just being willing to take the extra step and I feel like sacrifice is a big, big word."
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