< Back to All News

Strong Wins Gold in Sochi

Posted: Mar. 14, 2014 10:10 AM PDT

He did it. Evan Strong has won Gold at the Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia. The 27 year-old Nevada City resident edged fellow American Michael Shea by just over half-a-second in Snowboard Cross. Strong was in second place after the first run of three, but put down the fastest time of the entire competition in run number two, and led Shea by one one-hundredth of a second. Strong, who has a prosthetic leg after a motorcycle accident ten years ago, wins the first-ever Snowboard Cross at the Paralympics. The United States swept the event with Shea winning silver, and Keith Gabel taking the bronze.

More from my site

More from my site

KNCO Web Comments Guidelines

  1. Keep it clean. Comments with inappropriate language, no matter how cleverly spelled or decorated will not be posted.
  2. Comments on the way the story was written or misspelled words will be passed on to the story authors and not posted.
  3. Please use your real name. Anonymous comments or comments posted using a fake name or web handle may not be posted.
  4. Please use your real email address so we can contact you.
  5. No flaming. Any comments that are primarily of a name calling finger pointing nature may not be posted.
  6. The comment section is not a right it is a privilege. KNCO retains all rights as to what is posted on its website.

Leave A Comment

*

*

* captcha