Australian breakdancer Rachel Gunn, called B-Girl Raygun, stopped working to rack up a solitary factor at the Paris Olympics with her viral efficiencies, however she’s the one giggling currently. According to the brand-new positions launched by the World DanceSport Federation, the controling body for breakdancing, Raygun is now the No. 1 female breaker in the world.
Raygun won the 2023 WDSF Oceania Championships, which granted her 1,000 ranking factors. Her win in that occasion is just how she made her place at theOlympics None of champions in ladies’s damaging at the Olympics– Ami Yuasa, called B-Girl Ami (gold), Dominika Banevic, called B-Girl Nicka (silver), and Liu Qingyi, called B-Girl 671 (bronze)– are presently rated in the leading 10.
Why Raygun isNo 1
So just how did this take place? How isRaygun No 1 while the leading 3 Olympic champions weren’t also in the leading 10? Enough individuals asked that concern that the WDSF had to release a statement discussing why Raygun was presentlyNo 1.
The positions are based upon factors from each breaker’s leading 4 efficiencies from the last twelve month. (Points end after 52 weeks.) And as a variety of sporting activities do before the Olympics, damaging altered its timetable and the awarding of indicate permit professional athletes to concentrate on prep work leading up to the Paris Games.
Due to that, 3 significant occasions did not add to the positions factors: Olympic qualifiers in Shanghai and Budapest, and the Olympic Games itself. So while Raygun made absolutely no factors from the Olympics as a result of her efficiency, the champions really did not make any kind of either regardless of completing in the leading 3.
Not just did those 3 significant occasions not add to the factors, however they were several of the only occasions held over the previous year.
“Furthermore, in alignment with the Olympic Qualification System, ranking events were intentionally not held between 31 December 2023 and the Olympic Games Paris 2024,” the WDSF statement read. “This strategic scheduling allowed athletes to focus solely on the last part of their Olympic qualification without the added pressure of additional ranking events.”
So now, the factors from a lot of various other occasions have actually ended, and there are nothing else factors being available in as a result of theOlympics That indicates most breakers have the factors from simply one occasion choosing their position. And because Raygun won among the last non-Olympics occasions, she’s currently theNo 1 breaker on the planet.
