The three-time Olympic gold medalist said “I do” in a private courthouse ceremony on Oct. 26 — and shared the moment with fans herself on Instagram.
Gabby Thomas has won the biggest races of her life on the track. On Monday, she celebrated her favorite finish off it. The three-time Olympic gold medalist married Spencer McManes on Oct. 26, 2026, in a private ceremony at the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas, per Essentially Sports and Pulse Sports. Thomas shared photos from the day on Instagram herself, giving fans a look at the newlyweds leaving the courthouse and sharing a kiss, per Essentially Sports.
Per Essentially Sports, Thomas captioned the post “Mr. & Mrs. McManes🤍 Can’t wait to meet you at the altar.” She kept the look simple and classic — a fitted white strapless mini dress with white pointed-toe heels — while McManes wore a tailored dark navy-blue suit, per Essentially Sports. The congratulations rolled in from the track world and beyond: Olympic champion Allyson Felix commented “Congrats!” and Dutch star Femke Bol added her congratulations with heart and heart-eyes emojis, per Essentially Sports.
A love story that started with a follow
Every great sprint has a starting block, and theirs was a pizza review. Thomas and McManes began dating in the autumn of 2022 after she came across his Instagram profile, liked his pizza-review videos and followed him; he messaged her to ask what he had done to earn the follow, and the exchange turned into conversations and eventually a first date that lasted three hours, per Essentially Sports and WiseVoter. McManes proposed in March 2025 with a rooftop proposal during a staycation in Austin, per Pulse Sports.
Fans first met McManes in a “Team Gabby” shirt in the Paris stands in 2024, cheering as Thomas made history — and running over to hug her loved ones after she won the women’s 200 meters, per Essentially Sports. Thomas earned three gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, including the 200m title in 21.83 seconds, per WiseVoter. McManes is no stranger to high-level sport himself: the Georgia native played quarterback at Yale University, where he earned a degree in political science and government in 2017, and in May 2023 he launched Kaviva, a non-alcoholic kava seltzer brand based in Austin, per Pulse Sports. Thomas, for her part, starred at Harvard before adding a master’s degree in public health from the University of Texas — two Ivy League athletes whose paths, per Pulse Sports, never actually crossed in college.
Why the small wedding fits
There is something fitting about the courthouse. Thomas spent the weeks before the wedding celebrating with friends at an Austin bachelorette weekend themed “Gabby’s Last Rodeo,” and then chose the most low-key venue in town for the vows themselves. No stadium, no spectacle — just the two of them, a white dress, a navy suit and an Instagram post to tell the world. For an athlete whose career is measured in hundredths of a second and global spotlights, the quiet was clearly the point.
What is next is the celebration she teased in her own caption — meeting him at the altar suggests a bigger ceremony with family and friends still to come. For now, the scoreboard reads the way her fans would want it: gold in Paris, and a ring in Austin to match.
The 247 Take — Athletes plan weddings around seasons, trials and title defenses, and most of them still end up looking like productions. Thomas did the opposite — a courthouse, a mini dress and a post written in her own words. It is the most Gabby Thomas move possible: fast, joyful and entirely on her own terms.
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Sources: Essentially Sports; Pulse Sports; WiseVoter
