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PARIS — A 25-year-old from Japan won the first Olympic gold medal in breaking Friday night at the 2024 Paris Games.. B-Girl Ami, whose legal name is Ami Yuasa, defeated B-Girl Nicka of Lithuania ...
Breaking was introduced at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris as an optional (temporary) sport. Despite the United States being the birthplace of breakdancing, the sport is not set to be included at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles; on its omittance in the latter, the IOC's sports director Kit McConnell stated that "It's up to each local organizing committee to determine which ...
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
Kim won the gold medal at the 2022 WDSF World Breaking Championships in Seoul, South Korea, beating out more than 250 competitors for his world title. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 9 ] In 2023, Kim won gold at the WDSF Pan American Breaking Championship in Santiago, Chile followed by silver at the 2023 WDSF World Breaking Championship .
Breaking, more commonly known as breakdancing, made its debut as an Olympic sport this week at the 2024 Paris Games, with 17 B-girls and 16 B-boys making their way to France with the hopes of ...
At the 2024 Olympic ... He was the first male breaker to earn a spot after grabbing the gold medal at the 2023 WDSF World Breaking ... was an early advocate for breakdancing’s Olympics inclusion ...
[1] [3] In 2021, Fukushima won the world championship in a competition in France. [4] She also participated at a Red Bull BC One competition. [5] Ayumi works as a schoolteacher. Ayumi represented Japan in Breaking at the 2024 Summer Olympics, where she made it to the final eight but lost 2-1 to India Sardjoe. [6]
The 2023 WDSF World Breaking Championship was held in Leuven, Belgium from September 22nd to September 24th, 2023. [ 1 ] The gold medalist in each category qualified for the Breaking competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics .