India Sardjoe
Dutch breakdancer
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India Dewi 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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| Full name | India Dewi Sardjoe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | B-Girl India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 May 2006 The Hague, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Breaking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
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]
