Athletes With Absolutely Gorgeous Husbands

Mia Hamm is an icon for US Women's soccer. Clearly gifted at the sport, she was only 15 years old when she joined the national squad, and she was a part of the American team, which won the 1991 World Cup. Seemingly getting better with age, Hamm participated in her first Olympics at the 1996 games held in Atlanta, Georgia. She and her team won a gold medal that year, a silver at the 2000 Olympics, then back on top to win gold at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. Around the same time frame, Nomar Garciaparra electrified MLB fans as a standout infielder who played the first half of his career for the Boston Red Sox. In 1998, both athletes fortuitously connected at Harvard University, not for academics but rather for a promotional event. Fans joined to watch both Garciaparra and Hamm shoot soccer penalty kicks, and naturally, Hamm scored more than the baseball player. The two exchanged phone numbers at the event, but both went their separate ways. Almost a year later, Hamm then called Garciaparra when she was struggling with her soccer performance. By the end of 2002, Garciaparra proposed to Hamm, and the two married, Sports Illustrated recapped.

The star couple went on to have two fraternal twins but stayed serious about their fitness. "We leave the kids with a sitter, and we work out. It's something we can do together. That's the time for the two of us, she told People.

Defenses fear when USA soccer star Alex Morgan gets the ball. During the 2011 Women's World Cup, Morgan debuted in impressive style, scoring against France in the semi-final and Germany in the final. She went on to win an Olympic gold and two world cups, in addition to appearing in an impressive 200 international matches as of 2022, per Forbes. While most soccer players saw Morgan as competition, one saw her as a lifetime companion. Servando Carrasco, a professional soccer player in MLS, met Morgan at the University of California, Berkeley. "I've known Alex since I was 18. We both played soccer at Cal and started dating freshman year," Carrasco told The Athletic. According to the soccer star, he was immediately impressed with Morgan's lightning-quick moves on the pitch, even while she was injured. "Her speed on the soccer field is the first thing that caught my attention, along with the massive knee brace she was wearing because she just had surgery on her ACL like six months before that," Carrasco recalled. 

The two stayed together ever since their first year at school together, and at the end of 2014, Carrasco and Morgan tied the knot. "We are both so happy, grateful, and excited to start our lives together as Mr. and Mrs. Carrasco," Morgan told People about their wedding in Santa Barbara, California. "I truly married my best friend," she added about Carrasco. The two welcomed their daughter in 2020, People reported.

In her prime, Allyson Felix was one of the fastest people in the world. She participated in her first Olympic games at the 2004 event in Greece, and by the end of her career, she was the only female track athlete to win seven gold medals at the Olympics. In 2022, Felix ran her last race for a USA relay team. Her husband Kenneth Ferguson and their daughter Camryn were in attendance, as seen on NBC Sports. Ferguson, a fellow sprinter, was the only one who could keep up with her on the track and off the track romantically.

The two began dating in the early aughts, as seen in an adorable Instagram post where Felix shared a throwback photo from 2004 of the couple. "From young love to tons of unforgettable moments over the years ... I love growing with you! Happy Birthday to my best friend and partner," Felix captioned. He also helped Felix navigate a difficult experience with pregnancy. First, she had an emergency C-section with her daughter as a result of pre-eclampsia. The condition was life-threatening to the mother and daughter, but fortunately, both stayed healthy. As if this ordeal wasn't enough, Nike wanted to reduce Felix's sponsorship by 70 percent because she couldn't perform at her pre-pregnancy levels. The sprinter bravely wrote an article in The New York Times, which helped Nike modify its maternity policy. As of 2020, Felix, Ferguson, and Camryn were all doing well, per People.

Following in the waves created by Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps, Missy Franklin was a sensation at her Olympic debut in 2012 at the London summer games. Only a teen at the time, Franklin won four gold medals that year and five in total. The only person to earn more medals than her that year was Phelps, with six. She had a somewhat disappointing return at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Though she only walked away with one gold model, Franklin admitted there was more to focus on than only swimming. "This is just one phase of my life that I worked so hard for and made so many sacrifices for," she said. In 2018, she posted on Instagram that she and her boyfriend, Hayes Johnson, also a swimmer, were moving into a new home together. Less than two months later, Johnson proposed to Franklin. The couple shared their engagement announcement through Instagram with a photo of Franklin down on one knee. By the end of the year, Franklin announced she was retiring from swimming. "I'm ready to not be in pain every day. I'm ready to become a wife and, one day, a mother," she wrote for ESPN.

Years after their marriage, Franklin seemed to still have the same spark for Johnson. "Honestly, I am absolutely obsessed with my husband," she told People. The couple welcomed their first child together in 2021, a daughter named Sarah Caitlin.

Though he hails from sunny Los Angeles, California, Adam Rippon is an expert on the ice. As a member of the Team USA figure skating team, Rippon was a part of the bronze medal-winning mixed team at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics. Prior to the event, Rippon announced that he was gay, becoming one of the few openly gay athletes at those Olympics. "Do you remember growing up in Pennsylvania, thinking that being gay was something you would never tell anyone? When you publicly come out in the next year, you will let go of what other people think of you," he wrote for CBS. Following the games in South Korea, Rippon announced he would retire from professional ice skating. 

The year before retiring, Rippon was traveling for his sport when he matched with Jussi-Pekka Kajaala, a real estate broker from Finland, while using Tinder, People recapped. "Good boys Finnish first," Rippon captioned alongside a photo with his new man. in 2018. The couple continued a long-distance relationship for years, both from a geographical standpoint and followed by travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, Rippon said things were great between him and "JP" and that "if everything goes well, we'll probably get married in like a few months." Sure enough, the couple had a surprise wedding on New Year's Eve in 2021. "We always wanted to do something simple and just the two of us," he told People about the unannounced marriage.

At a towering height of 6 feet 2 inches, Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova also towered over her competition during most of her career. When she retired in 2020, Sharapova had earned an impressive number of achievements in tennis. She won five Grand Slam titles, including her first at the 2004 Wimbledon championship. Sharapova was only 17 at the time, making her the fourth youngest player ever to win a Grand Slam. She also went on to win all three other major tournaments, making her only the fifth woman with a career Grand Slam, Tennis recapped. While she may have stopped playing tennis professionally, Sharapova's career was only just getting started. She became an entrepreneur, creating her Sugarpova candy brand. The former tennis star also became an investor in a cryptocurrency company and the luxury conglomerate Moncler Group, per Forbes. Then, in 2022, Sharapova became a mom. She and her fiancé Alexander Gilkes had a baby boy together. "The most beautiful, challenging, and rewarding gift our little family could ask for," she posted on Instagram.

Sharapova and Gilkes first announced their relationship in 2018. Gilkes is also an entrepreneur — the founder of the online auction site Paddle 8. The British Gilkes considers Prince Williams one of his friends since college, People recapped. By the end of 2020, Sharapova announced she was engaged to Gilkes. "I look forward to a lifetime of loving you and learning from you," the tennis star posted on Instagram.

Though she may only have one Olympic gold medal, which is still an impressive feat, the impact of figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi's win is much more meaningful. At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France, Yamaguchi became the first Asian American woman to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Even with the historic win, Yamaguchi stayed humble and remembered she "just felt like any other California girl representing her country," per The Washington Post. Her win helped pave the way for future Asian American figure skaters like Michelle Kwan and Nathan Chen. Once her skating career ended, Yamaguchi still showed she could dance after winning "Dancing With the Stars." She was also married to another star on ice, NHL player Bret Hedican. 

In a fairytale meet cute, Yamaguchi first spoke with Hedican at the opening ceremony for the 1992 Olympics. While waiting to walk out with the other Americans, fellow ice skater Nancy Kerrigan suggested she and Yamaguchi meet some of the other athletes, which included the men's ice hockey team with Hedican. After Yamaguchi won her gold, she went to watch the men's team in the bronze medal match. "It wasn't really until a few years later where our paths crossed again, but that connection of being on the same Olympic team was kind of what spurred on interest," Yamaguchi explained in "Digging in with Tripp." The athletic couple went on to have two daughters together, Early Learning Nation recapped.

California native Morgan Beck is built to play volleyball, standing at 6 feet 3 inches in height. This dual threat was part of the Team USA beach volleyball team and also modeled. In fact, Complex named Beck as one of the 25 hottest athletes on the US Olympic team in 2012. That same year, she met Bode Miller, an Olympic skier for Team USA. In his career, Miller showed little fear as he raced down the mountain in alpine events, winning a total of six Olympic medals. Back in warmer weather in San Diego, Miller signed up for a matchmaking service and met Beck at a volleyball tournament. The two hit it off, but then Miller found out another woman in his life was pregnant with his child. Miller and Beck continued to date while the skier dealt with a custody battle over his son. The romance was swift between the two athletes, who married five months after meeting. "I'm probably the only woman in the world who would put up with this," Beck told ESPN about the family drama. 

Beck changed her name, Miller won custody, and the couple began to create a huge family, as seen in photos posted by Morgan on Instagram. The Millers had six children together, Nash, Asher, Aksel, Easton, Scarlet, and Emmy, while Bode has two kids from a previous relationship. Sadly, Emmy died in a drowning accident when she was only 19 months old, Today reported.