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Gabby Thomas Net Worth: How Rich is the Track-and-Field Athlete?

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August 2, 2021

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Gabrielle Thomas, better known as Gabby Thomas is a 25 years old American track-and-field athlete. She is best known for being the second-fastest woman athlete of all time who set the time record of 21.61 seconds in the 200 meters at the 2020 US Olympic trials. Gabby was recently advanced to semis after coming second in 200-meter heat in the first round falling just short behind Namibia’s Christine Mboma. As of 2022, Gabby Thomas net worth is estimated to be roughly $1.5 million.

Full Name	Gabrielle Thomas
Birth Date	December 7, 1996
Birth Place	Atlanta, Georgia, U. S.
Profession	Track and Field athlete
Relationship Status	Single
Net Worth	$1.5 million

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Early life

Gabby Thomas was born on the 7th of December, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. She was born to parents, Desmond Thomas and Jennifer Randall. Her mother is an African-American, and her father is a Jamaican. Gabby’s mom, Randall shifted to Massachusetts in 2007 to serve as a professor at the University of Massachusetts. After some time, her family settled permanently in Florence, Massachusetts.

Thomas was initially interested in playing soccer and softball. Then, she started taking interest in track and field. Gabby stated that she was inspired by track and field sprinter, Allyson Felix to run on a track race. Thomas saw Allyson Felix running on tract race first time on TV while she was staying in her grandmother’s house. She carried her passion for track and field in high school and ran 4 years for the high school, Williston Northampton School. She was chosen MVP each year and had set many records while competing in high school.

Gabby joined Harvard University after completing high school. She held her under graduation degree from Harvard in neurobiology and global health. Gabby is currently studying at the University of Texas from where she will be majoring in epidemiology.

Gabby Thomas Net Worth & Career

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Thomas competed in the six different events in her three years of athletics while studying at Harvard. She was able to win 22 conference titles. She also set Ivy League records in the track race of 100m, 200m, and the indoor 60m. Within a short time, she was signed by the sports brand, New Balance.

Thomas turned professional in October 2018 and moved to Austin, Texas where she was trained by the Tonja Buford-Bailey. Thomas received a suspension in May 2020 after she had three whereabouts failures. After that, she was sanctioned with 2 year period of ineligibility. In June, she submitted new evidence to invalidate one failure. Her suspension and failures were all cleared in July.

Thomas went through a nightmare in 2021 as she was declared of having a tumor on her liver through an MRI. However, later the tumor was revealed as benign. Thomas is currently representing the United States at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the 200-meter race.

In the 2020 U. S. Olympic trials which were held on 26th June 2021, she completed the 200-meter race in 21.61 seconds. Her time became the 3rd fasted time, and she was the only second woman to complete the race in the fastest time after Florence Griffith-Joyner, who completed it in 21.56 at Seoul 1988 in the semi-finals of the 200-meter race.

She has recently made it through the semi-finals at Tokyo Olympics in the 200-meter race after finishing second in the event’s first round behind Namibia’s track athlete, Christine Mboma.

Gabby Thomas Personal Life

Gabby Thomas has been mostly silent when it comes to revealing her relationship and love affairs. She is assumed to be single right now. We have not found any evidence regarding her boyfriend. She seems quite active on Instagram where she is followed by 158K people. Just a day ago on August 1, 2021, she posted a picture with the caption “My Olympic debut is tomorrow. Gun goes off for first rounds of 200m at 10:30 am (for me) and 8:30 pm CT. Lets go.”.