MOSCOW — Exactly one month after their marriage, Ashton Eaton and his wife, Brianne Theisen-Eaton, have two shiny new wedding presents.

Eaton, the American from Central Oregon who holds the world record in the decathlon, won his gold medal in the World Track and Field Championships here Sunday night. The next morning he made a mad dash for the bus from the hotel to Luzhniki Stadium and took on the role of motivator-in-chief as Theisen-Eaton competed in the heptathlon for Canada.

“I think it’s more nerve-racking to watch, because it’s out of your control,” Eaton said.

Theisen-Eaton, just 11th in last year’s Olympic heptathlon, handled the moment just fine, however: winning her first medal in a global championship — a silver — and the newlyweds soon shared an embrace on the edge of the blue track.

“I always watched him, and I watch him get his medals, and I say, ‘I wonder what it feels like? I can only imagine,’” Theisen-Eaton said. “So I’m getting a little taste of it.”

Track and field has not seen anything quite like the Eatons for more than 50 years. The last married couple to win medals in the same week at one of the sport’s showcase events is believed to be the Czech couple of Emil Zatopek and Dana Zatopkova.

At the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Zatopek, one of the best distance runners in history, won gold in the 5,000 meters. Minutes later, Zatopkova took gold in the javelin.

The Eatons have yet to manage that sort of love double. Ganna Melnichenko of Ukraine won the gold medal in the heptathlon with 6,586 points, while Theisen-Eaton took second with 6,530 and Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands came in third with 6,477.

But what makes the Eatons distinct is that they excel in the same family of events, known as “the multis” in the track and field world.

Although they represent different nations, they both attended the University of Oregon and have trained together exclusively under veteran coach Harry Marra since November 2009.

Their medals in Moscow were quite a birthday present for Marra, who turned 66 on Tuesday.

“It was an amazing four days; I’m happy for both of them,” Marra said. “They are 25 and 24, gold and silver. I was pumping gas back then. I wasn’t winning medals.”

Ashton and Brianne met when he was a freshman at Oregon and she was a high school senior on a recruiting visit.

“I knew she was a good athlete, because they had brought her there and said she was good,” Ashton said. “After that I never really talked to her that much, didn’t talk to her at all because I saw her what? A day?

“But I ended up going to a track meet in Brazil for the Junior Pan-American Games and she was there for Canada, and we met again there. She said she had signed with Oregon, so it was track and field that brought us together.”

“They are two great kids,” Marra said. “They challenge you every single day in practice. So you can’t just go with no plan. They get a personal record in practice, and there’s not a smile. It’s ‘I want more, I want more.’ Sometimes you got to back off but you can’t deny an athlete that.”

Despite the Eatons’ collective ambition, they nearly did not make it here together. In March, while they were training with Marra in Santa Barbara, Calif., there was a miscommunication — an extremely dangerous one — and Ashton ended up walking downfield while his fiancee had one javelin left to throw.

“There were three mistakes made; all three of us made a mistake,” Marra said. “I was telling her something, ‘You’ve got to get our arm up’ or something, and Ashton now has walked ahead. And Brianne never pulls to the left, never. Always if she pulls, it goes off to the right. So she threw and as she threw it’s going right at Ashton.”

In fact, it was heading right for his upper back.

“I panicked, froze like a deer in the headlights and thought, ‘How are we going to rehab that?’ It looked like it was going right through his shoulder,” Marra said. “And she screamed bloody murder at the top of her lungs.”

Ashton followed instinct and twisted away just in time. The javelin, according to Marra and Brianne, grazed his face.

“It skinned the top of his lip and made him bleed,” Theisen-Eaton said Tuesday. “It was pretty traumatic.”

“I could see him shaking, but I was like vibrating,” she added. “My eyes weren’t even focusing right. He came over and was like, ‘I’m fine.’ ”

Marra said the emotions could get complicated, but he tries to focus on coaching athletes, not a couple.

“I just coach them as athletes,” he said. “Ashton is a very big supporter of Bri and vice versa. They feed off each other in competition.

“I just treat them like two athletes.”