Team USA triumphed in the first year of breaking as an Olympic discipline, when American B-Body Victor took home the bronze medal.

On Saturday, August 10, Victor (full name Victor Montalvo) won the bronze medal match at La Concorde in Paris with a score of 3-0 against Japan’s Shigekix, according to a press release from Team USA.

The 30-year-old’s victory came shortly after he lost to France’s Dany Dann in the semifinals, while Canada’s Phil Wizard defeated Shigekix. Montalvo initially finished at the top of Group A, according to Team USA, and defeated Amir of Kazakhstan 3-0 in the quarterfinals.

Phil Wizard, whose real name is Philip Kim, won the gold medal for Canada, while Frenchman Dany Dann won silver.

In the breaking competitions at the Olympic Games in Paris on Friday and Saturday, 16 B-boys and 16 B-girls – the colloquial term for a breaker or break dancer – competed against each other in individual competitions. A jury judged the competitions according to six different criteria: creativity, personality, technique, variety, performance and musicality.

“Athletes will use a combination of power moves – including windmills, 6-step and freezes – while adapting their style and improvising to the beat of DJ tracks to secure the judges’ votes and take home the first Olympic medals,” the official Olympic Games website says.

The sport – which was already part of the Youth Olympics at the 2018 Summer Olympics, marking the first time a form of dancesport was included as an Olympic discipline – has its roots in the street culture of the 1970s in New York City.

Sunny (real name Sunny Choi), 35, who was one of two B-girls on Team USA this year, previously spoke about how important it is for the U.S. to show its dominance in the sport. “I don’t know how many times people say, ‘You don’t have a choice. You have to bring it home to New York,'” she told CBS News.

“(We) try to pay respect to where we come from, where this dance comes from, and want to bring some of that shine back to the community when we go on the big stage,” Choi added in an Aug. 6 press conference, according to the outlet.

Montalvo, originally from Florida, previously spoke openly about his passion for breakdancing in an interview for Team USA, explaining that he started the sport at the age of nine through his cousin.

“It was just amazing,” he said. “I loved the music and the feelings it gave me. I’m a super shy kid, so it was perfect for me because you don’t have to talk to anyone. You just need the dance floor and yourself. So for me it was a really great art form and sport.”

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The US B-girls didn’t take home any medals in Paris. In the round-robin event, 21-year-old Logistx (real name Logan Edra) won three victories and 35-year-old Sunny (real name Sunny Choi) won two, but neither made it to the quarterfinals. Japan’s Ami won the gold medal in the women’s event and Lithuania’s Nicka took silver in the final.

“I feel like I still shined and I still represented dance and had some moments,” Logistx said after her battles, according to CBS News. “It was such a big opportunity, it’s such a big platform and I’m really glad we’re here.”

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