B-girl Raygun failed to score a point at Paris 2024, but the latest rankings have her as the world’s No.1 breaker.
University lecturer Rachael Gunn, 37, captured world-wide attention for her performance at Paris 2024.Australian breaker Rachael Gunn, aka “b-girl Raygun,” holds the top spot in her sport’s latest world rankings despite Olympic performances that led to online ridicule.
The World DanceSport Federation said the ranking methodology is based on each athlete’s top four performances within the past 12 months — but excludes Olympic events, including the Paris Games and Olympic qualifier series events in Shanghai and Budapest. The federation clarified that the unusual circumstances of this year’s competition schedule resulted in many athletes being ranked based on a single event. In Raygun’s case, her first-place finish at the Oceania continental championships in October 2023 earned her 1000 points.
“Speaking of the WDSF, they actually don’t have any real merit with the breakers or the breaking community,” said Zack Slusser, vice-president of Breaking for Gold USA.“And they also haven’t been able to organise events by their measure that would contribute to creating an accurate world ranking.”According to Slusser, breakers only performed in events organised by the WDSF – the Lausanne-based governing body for competitive dance sports – to get enough points to qualify for the Paris Olympics.
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