India Sardjoe
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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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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.
Biography
[edit]Sardjoe was born in 2006 in The Hague, Netherlands.[2][3] Her father is Indo-Surinamese while her mother is of half-Indian and half-Dutch descent.[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). Archived from the original on 9 August 2024. Retrieved 15 August 2024 – via archive.ph.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "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). Archived from the original on 9 August 2024. Retrieved 15 August 2024 – via archive.ph.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Nasir, Noreen (9 August 2024). "Olympic breaking is underway, with b-girl India winning the first battle in Games history". Associated Press.
- ^ "India vs. 671 results". Olympics.com.
- 2006 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from The Hague
- Dutch female dancers
- Olympic breakdancers for the Netherlands
- Breakdancers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Dutch people of Indian descent
- Dutch people of Surinamese descent
- European Games gold medalists for the Netherlands
- European Games medalists in breaking
- Breakdancers at the 2023 European Games