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Key facts
- Full name
- Gabrielle Lisa Thomas
- Born
- ( 1996-12-07 ) December 7, 1996 (age 29) , Atlanta, Georgia , U.S.
- Home town
- Northampton, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Education
- Pace Academy , Harvard University , University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- Height
- 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
- Country
- United States
- Sport
- Track and field
- Event
- Sprint
- Olympic finals
- 2024 Paris 200 m, Gold 4 × 100 m, Gold 4 × 400 m, Gold 2020 Tokyo 200 m, Bronze 4 × 100 m, Silver
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gabrielle
- Family name
- Thomas
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Atlanta
- Occupation
- sprinter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- United States
- Image
- Gabrielle Thomas (Gabby) on July 25, 2024, in Saint-Gratien, France (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 180
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- sports discipline competed in
- 200 metres
- Commons category
- Gabrielle Thomas
- date of birth
- 1996-12-07
- social media followers
- 73255
- personal best
- 21.60
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Encyclopedic overview
Gabrielle Lisa Thomas (born December 7, 1996) is an American track and field athlete specializing in 100 and 200 meter sprint who is the 2024 200 m Olympic champion. Born in Georgia and raised in Massachusetts, Thomas competed in college for Harvard University before beginning a professional track career in 2018. Thomas also has a master of public health degree in epidemiology.
At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the 200 m and a silver as part of the women's 4 × 100 m relay. On August 25, 2023, she claimed the 200 m silver medal in the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest with a time of 21.81 seconds. She won gold as part of Team USA in the women's 4 × 100 m relay final with a championship record of 41.03 seconds. At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Thomas won three gold medals; individually in the 200 m, and alongside her teammates in the 4 × 100 m relay and 4 × 400 m relay, in which they ran an American record and the second-fastest time ever.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gabby Thomas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.