India Sardjoe (born 19 May 2006)[1] is a Dutch breakdancer. She won the Red Bull BC One world title in 2022 and later qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics, the first time breakdancing was featured at the games.
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| Nickname | B-Girl India | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 May 2006 The Hague, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Breakdancing | |||||||||||||||||
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Biography
editSardjoe was born in 2006 in The Hague, Netherlands.[2][3] Her father is from Suriname and mother from the Netherlands.[4] She played football when young and started taking hip hop dance classes, but switched to breakdancing at age seven.[3] By age 10, she won the Dutch national championship in the U12 category.[5] She is a member of the groups Heavyhitters and Hustlekidz and is coached by Ton Steenvoorden.[3][6]
Sardjoe traveled internationally to attend different breakdancing tournaments and in 2022, she first won the Dutch championships, then the European championship, and the Red Bull BC One world championship in a six-month span.[3][5][7] In 2023, she earned qualification for the 2024 Summer Olympics, featuring the first appearance of breakdancing at the Olympics.[8] There, she defeated Manizha Talash in the pre-qualifying matchup, the first breakdancing battle in Olympic history, and advanced to the round-robin stage.[9] She advanced from the round-robin tournament and ultimately finished in fourth place, losing in an 8–19 vote to Liu Qingyi in the bronze medal match.[10]
References
edit- ^ "India Sardjoe". Nike. 25 July 2024.
- ^ "India Sardjoe". Olympics.com.
- ^ a b c d Binner, Andrew; Merrell, Chloe (24 February 2023). "Breaking world champion B-Girl India: There is so much freedom in this sport". Olympics.com.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Kawalik, Tracy (25 August 2023). "Get to know teen sensation B-Girl India who's aiming to win Red Bull BC One". Red Bull. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
B-Girl India was born and raised in The Hague in Holland. Her father is Indian-Surinamese, and her mother is half-Indian and half-Dutch.
- ^ a b Hommes, Kick (9 August 2024). "Breakdancer India Sardjoe wil altijd dansen, zelfs als ze wacht op de tram" [Breakdancer India Sardjoe always wants to dance, even when she's waiting for the tram]. Trouw (in Dutch) – via archive.ph.
- ^ "B-girl India Sardjoe is on a roll". piketkunstprijzen.nl. 15 August 2022.
- ^ "Breakdancing at the 2024 Olympics: Let's meet India Sardjoe and Toby Tanate". Sports-Nl.com. 15 May 2022.
- ^ Yonis, Houndi (7 May 2024). "Tienersensatie India Sardjoe: 'Afstuderen is mijn eerste grote doel, daarna pas de Olympische Spelen'" [Teenage sensation India Sardjoe: ‘Graduating is my first big goal, then the Olympic Games’]. Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch) – via archive.ph.
- ^ Nasir, Noreen (9 August 2024). "Olympic breaking is underway, with b-girl India winning the first battle in Games history". Associated Press News.
- ^ "India vs. 671 results". Olympics.com.