Hunter Woodhall wins Paralympic sprint title to join his wife as a gold medalist

PARIS (AP) — One month after Tara Davis-Woodhall's Olympic title in the long jump, her husband Hunter Woodhall, a double amputee, won his own Paralympic gold medal Friday at the Stade de France.

Davis-Woodhall’s rush into the stands for a celebratory hug from her husband became a viral moment during the Olympics, and the roles switched this time in the Paralympics.

Woodhall won the T62 400 meters in 46.36 seconds, leaving Germany’s Johannes Floors the silver in 46.90 and the Netherlands’ Oliver Hendricks the bronze in 46.91.

Woodhall, who raced for the able-bodied track team in college at Arkansas, also won a bronze medal as part of America’s 4x100 universal relay team. This comes a year after he didn't make it to the starting line at Para world championships because his prosthetics were malfunctioning.

“This is like a fever dream,” Woodhall said. “I am so full of emotions right now. It is so incredible. I have been waiting so long and gone through so much stress and worry about achieving this. When I crossed the line, I was like, ‘Am I really first this time or am I still dreaming?’”

Yui Kamiji swept the women's wheelchair tennis competition at the Paris Paralympics.

She won the singles final over Dutch favorite Diede De Groot 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 at Roland Garros.

The day before, Kamiji won her first gold medal in the doubles with Japan teammate Manami Tanaka. They beat De Groot and Aniek Van Koot.

“I just can’t describe how big this is,” Kamiji said. “Yesterday, after the doubles match ended, I wasn’t satisfied. I started to think about the singles.”

Wheelchair tennis officially joined the Paralympics in 1992. Since then, only Dutch players had won the women's singles and doubles.

De Groot was the defending champion in both.

“I’m just really sad that I couldn’t get the gold medal," she said. “The expectations are high. Unfortunately I couldn’t live up to it.”

Star Chinese swimmer Guo Jincheng won a fourth gold medal at these Games.

Guo claimed the S5 50-meter butterfly in 30.28 seconds, a world and Paralympics record.

Two countrymen completed the podium, Yuan Weiyi and Wang Lichao.

The 23-year-old Guo, who doesn't have arms, has gained online recognition for his dolphin-like swimming style, which relies on the strength of his legs.

“I don’t pay much attention to the Internet, especially international websites, so I feel very happy to be talked about on the Internet,” Guo said. "I feel proud that the websites are paying attention to me.”

Overall, Guo has six medals from these Games and set two world records.

British cycling star Sarah Storey claimed her 19th gold medal in the women’s C4-5 road race.

The 46-year-old Storey finished just ahead of French teenager Heidi Gaugain in a sprint to the line as both completed the 71-kilometer course in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois in 1 hour, 54 minutes, 24 seconds.

“I knew we had a great breakaway, we built up a good lead,” Storey said. “Then Heidi Gaugain attacked with a lap and a half to go. Fortunately I speak a bit of French so I understood what she was told. So I was ready to attack with her.

“I’m just delighted that my wheel was in front at the finish.”

Colombia’s Paula Andrea Ossa Veloza was 20 seconds behind for bronze.

Storey won the C5 individual time trial for her 18th Paralympic gold on Wednesday.

She also won the time trial and road race at the Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and London Games, while she won a women’s LC1/LC2/CP4 time trial in Beijing in 2008.

She has five more Paralympic gold medals from the track, and yet more from swimming since she won her first gold in the pool in Barcelona in 1992.

The Paris Games are her ninth Paralympics.

China set a world record in the 4x100 universal relay, clocking 45.07 seconds in the final.

It beat its own previous record of 45.09 from the heats.

The 4x100-meter universal relay is a mixed-gender and mixed-disability race featuring two men and two women with different disabilities.

Each team begins with a visually impaired athlete, followed by an amputee sprinter, then an athlete with cerebral palsy, and finishes with a wheelchair racer.

China's team was Zhou Guohua, Wang Hao, Wen Xiaoyan and Hu Yang.

Britain was second and the United States third.

Iran defeated Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-1 in the sitting volleyball final for a second successive gold medal.

Iran has won eight Paralympic golds in sitting volleyball since its first at the 1988 Seoul Games.

In the final, Iran's Morteza Mehrzadselakjani was the top scorer with 27 points. Mehrzadselakjani is the world’s second-tallest man at 8-foot-1 (2.46 meters). Even when he's sitting, he's more than 6 feet (1.8 meters) with his arms raised.

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China team poses after winning the gold and setting a new world record in the 4x100 m. universal relay at the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

China team poses after winning the gold and setting a new world record in the 4x100 m. universal relay at the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Paris, France. From left, Wen Xiaoyan, Wang Hao, Hu Yang and Zhou Guohua, with her guide. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Hunter Woodhall from the U.S. celebrates after winning the men's 400 m. T62 final at the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Hunter Woodhall from the U.S. celebrates after winning the men's 400 m. T62 final at the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Iran players celebrate after winning the men's Sitting Volleyball Gold Medal Match against Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Iran's Morteza Mehrzadselakjani, centre, celebrate with teammates after winning the men's Sitting Volleyball Gold Medal Match between Iran and Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Leighton Smithwick)

Iran players celebrate after winning the men's Sitting Volleyball Gold Medal Match against Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

China's Weiyi Yuan, right, and China's Jincheng Guo compete in the Para Swimming Men's 50m Freestyle - S5 Final at the Paris La Defense Arena at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Paris, France, Thursday Sept. 5, 2024. (Joel Marklund/OIS/IOC via AP)

Japan's Yui Kamiji reacts with her gold medal after winning the Women's Singles Wheelchair Tennis at the 2024 Paralympics, on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024 in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Caleb Craig)

Japan's Yui Kamiji reacts after winning a point in the Women's Singles Wheelchair Tennis Gold Medal Match at the 2024 Paralympics, on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024 in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Caleb Craig)

Michael Brannigan of the U.S, center, Britain's Ben Sandilands, right, and Italy's Ndiaga Dieng, left, compete in the men's 1500m T20 final during the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Pakistan's Ali Haider competes in the Men's Discus Throw - F37 during the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Britain's Sarah Storey celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's C4-5 road race during the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Clichy-sous-Bois, France. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Britain's Sarah Storey celebrates with her gold medal after winning the women's C4-5 road race during the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Clichy-sous-Bois, France. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Britain's Sarah Storey celebrates with fans after winning the gold medal in the women's C4-5 road race during the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Clichy-sous-Bois, France. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Britain's Sarah Storey, left, celebrates as she wins the gold medal in the women's C4-5 road race during the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Clichy-sous-Bois, France. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is safe following what the FBI says "appears to be an attempted assassination” while playing golf two months after another attempt on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Local authorities said the U.S. Secret Service agents protecting Trump fired at a man pointing an AK-style rifle with a scope as Trump was playing on one of his Florida golf courses in West Palm Beach.

Here are five things to know about what happened Sunday to the Republican presidential nominee.

Law enforcement officials said the man who pointed the rifle and was arrested is Ryan Wesley Routh. The officials identified the suspect to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.

Records show Routh, 58, lived in North Carolina for most of his life before moving in 2018 to Kaaawa, Hawaii, where he and his son operated a company building sheds, according to an archived version of the webpage for the business.

Routh frequently posted on social media about the war in Ukraine and had a website where he sought to raise money and recruit volunteers to go to Kyiv to join the fight against the Russian invasion. In June 2020, he made a post on X directed at then-President Trump to say he would win reelection if he issued an executive order for the Justice Department to prosecute police misconduct. That year, he also posted in support of the Democratic presidential campaign of then-U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who has since left the party and endorsed Trump.

However, in recent years, his posts suggest he soured on Trump, and he expressed support for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

In July, following the assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania, Routh urged Biden and Harris to visit those wounded in the shooting at the hospital and to attend the funeral of a former fire chief killed at the rally.

Voter records show he registered as an unaffiliated voter in North Carolina in 2012, most recently voting in person during the state’s Democratic Party primary in March 2024. Federal campaign finance records show Routh made 19 small political donations totaling $140 since 2019 using his Hawaii address to ActBlue, a political action committee that supports Democratic candidates.

Records show that while living in Greensboro, North Carolina, Routh had multiple run-ins with law enforcement. He was convicted in 2002 of possessing a weapon of mass destruction, according to online North Carolina Department of Adult Correction records.

The records do not provide details about the case. But a News & Record story from 2002 says a man with the same name was arrested after a three-hour standoff with police. The story says he was pulled over during a traffic stop, put his hand on a gun and barricaded himself inside a roofing business. He owned the roofing company, according to state incorporation filings.

Local authorities said the gunman was about 400 yards to 500 yards away from Trump and hiding in shrubbery while the former president was playing a round of golf at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

Ric Bradshaw, sheriff of Palm Beach County, said that when people get into the shrubbery around the course, “they’re pretty much out of sight.” Bradshaw said the entire golf course would have been lined with law enforcement if Trump were the sitting president, but because he’s not, “security is limited to the areas the Secret Service deems possible.”

Trump’s protective detail has been higher than some of his peers because of his high visibility and his campaign to seek the White House again. His security was bolstered days before the July assassination attempt in Pennsylvania because of a threat on Trump’s life from Iran, U.S. officials said.

In an email to supporters, Trump said: “There were gunshots in my vicinity, but before rumors start spiraling out of control, I wanted you to hear this first: I AM SAFE AND WELL!”

His running mate, JD Vance, and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said they spoke with Trump after the incident, and both said he was in “good spirits.” Trump also checked in with several Fox News hosts.

Fox News host Sean Hannity, a close friend of the former president's, said on air that he spoke with Trump and his golf partner, Steve Witkoff, afterward. They told Hannity they had been on the fifth hole when they heard a “pop pop, pop pop.” Within seconds, he said Witkoff recounted, Secret Service agents “pounced on” Trump and “covered him” to protect him.

Moments later, Witkoff said, a “fast cart” with steel reinforcement and other protection was able to whisk Trump away.

Hannity said Trump’s reaction after this happened — and when it was clear that everyone, including Witkoff, was safe — was to quip that he was sad he hadn’t been able to finish the hole since he “was even and had a birdie putt.”

Harris, Trump's Democratic opponent in the presidential election, posted on X that she had been briefed on the reports of gunshots fired.

“I am glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America.”

The White House said President Joe Biden and Harris would be kept updated on the investigation. The White House added it was “relieved” to know Trump is safe.

Trump has not announced any changes to his schedule and is set to speak live on X on Monday night from his Mar-a-Lago resort to launch his sons’ crypto platform.

Meanwhile, the leaders of a congressional bipartisan task force investigating the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump said they have requested a briefing by the Secret Service.

“We are thankful that the former President was not harmed, but remain deeply concerned about political violence and condemn it in all of its forms,” Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., said in a statement. They said the task force will share updates.

U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Florida Democrat who is part of the task force, said he “will seek answers about what happened today and then.”

Photos that show an AK-47 rifle, a backpack and a Go-Pro camera on a fence outside Trump International Golf Club taken after an apparent assassination attempt of Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, are displayed during a news conference at the Palm Beach County Main Library, Sunday. Sept. 15, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Stephany Matat)

This photo provided by the Martin County Sheriff's Office shows Sheriff's vehicles surrounding an SUV on the northbound I-95 in Martin County on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP)