This year, standing snowboard cross made its debut at the Paralympic Winter Games held in Sochi, Russia.

Snowboard Cross at the Paralympics differs from the same event in the Olympics, with riders competing one at a time rather than six at a time. In the Paralympics, it’s a time trial in which the best two out of three runs count.

American Evan Strong, 27, took gold for the men with a winning time of 1:43:61. Fellow Americans Mike Shea and Keith Gabel took silver and bronze, respectively.

“Today is a dream, I’m ecstatic, I’m over the moon, I don’t even feel like my feet are on the ground right now,” said Strong, according to The Moscow Times. “To be able to pull this off, it’s just a testimony to the US training, our coaches, to what we’ve been working on all year long.”

For the women, Bibian Mentel-Spee from the Netherlands took gold, beating Cecile Hernandez Ep Cervellon from France, who took silver, and American Amy Purdy, who took bronze.

“I’m just excited. It’s been a lot of work leading up to this place so it’s kind of a breath of fresh air to have done it,” said Purdy, according to RIA Novosti. “The whole journey has been amazing.”

Purdy finished 16 seconds behind Mentel-Spree.

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