Gabrielle credits Allyson Felix with inspiring her to take up running, citing Felix as the source of her earliest memory of watching a track race while visiting her grandmother.
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Gabrielle Thomas, commonly known as Gabby, is an American track and field athlete who specializes in 100 m and 200 m sprint events. She was born on December 7, 1996, to Jennifer Randall and Desmond Thomas. Andrew is the name of her twin brother. She enjoyed softball at first but switched to track and field in high school. She credits Allyson Felix with inspiring her to take up running, citing Felix as the source of her earliest memory of watching a track race while visiting her grandmother. Randall brought her family to the University of Massachusetts in 2007, after earning her PhD at Emory University. Gabby earned a degree in neurobiology, global health, and health policy from Harvard University in 2019. At the University of Texas at Austin, she pursued a master’s degree in epidemiology.
While she was a student at Williston-Northampton School in Florence, Massachusetts, she clinched a total of eleven New England track and field championships, including in the 100 and 200 metre sprints, relays, long and triple jumps, and other events. Gabby decided to pursue her undergraduate education at Harvard University, which was located just down the Pike. Gabby won four Ivy League titles in 2016 while still being a freshman and placed third in the 200 metre run at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. She won three more Ivy League titles the following year and came in third at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. At the 2018 NCAA Indoor Championships, Gabby dominated the 200 m in a timing of 22.38 which was also a new collegiate record.
Thomas won the bronze medal in the 200 m finals with a timing of 21.87 on August 3, 2021, at the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, behind Elaine Thompson-Herah and Christine Mboma. They clinched the gold and silver medals respectively. She then ran the anchor three days later, on August 6, 2021, after the American team had advanced to the 4 x 100-meter relay finals. The team finished second to the Jamaican team, earning Thomas and teammates Javianne Oliver, Teahna Daniels, and Jenna Prandini the silver medal.
There is no information available regarding Gabrielle Thomas’ boyfriend.
No, American sprinter Gabrielle Thomas doesn’t have a child.
It seems like Gabrielle Thomas is presently single and focusing on her sprinting career. However, it was previously reported that she earlier dated a guy named Sam Geschickter. They attended the Williston Northampton School together. Although they don’t post each other on their social media accounts, they do follow one another on Instagram. However, it is not known whether they are still together or not.
