Breaking made its Olympic debut at the Paris 2024 Games on 9–10 August 2024 at Place de la Concorde, and Japan’s B-Girl Ami and Canada’s B-Boy Phil Wizard won the first gold medals. The sport is not on the Los Angeles 2028 programme, so Paris remains its only Olympic appearance until the IOC rules on Brisbane 2032.
TL;DR: Breaking Olympics 2024 in 30 Seconds
- When and where: 9 August (B-Girls) and 10 August (B-Boys) 2024, Place de la Concorde, Paris.
- Winners: Ami (Japan) and Phil Wizard (Canada) took gold.
- Athletes: 33 breakers from 16 nations, 17 B-Girls and 16 B-Boys.
- Judging: nine judges, five criteria worth 20% each.
- Future: no breaking at LA 2028; the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) has applied for Brisbane 2032.
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Breaking Olympics 2024: The Direct Answer
Summary of breaking and the biggest stories from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (26 July – 11 August 2024), checked against Olympics.com, AP and Reuters.
Breaking, the competitive form of the dance born in 1970s New York hip-hop culture, joined the Olympic programme in Paris as an additional sport chosen by the host city. B-Girls battled on Friday 9 August and B-Boys on Saturday 10 August, both at the urban park built on Place de la Concorde. Breakers faced each other one-on-one, dancing to tracks a DJ picked at random, so nobody knew the music in advance.
Paris 2024 Breaking Medalists
| Event (date) | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| B-Girls (9 Aug) | Ami Yuasa – Ami (JPN) | Dominika Banevič – Nicka (LTU) | Liu Qingyi – 671 (CHN) |
| B-Boys (10 Aug) | Philip Kim – Phil Wizard (CAN) | Danis Civil – Dany Dann (FRA) | Victor Montalvo – Victor (USA) |
Phil Wizard gave Canada its first breaking gold, and Dany Dann’s silver delighted the home crowd. Victor, the 2023 world champion, beat Japan’s Shigekix in the bronze battle. You can replay every battle on the Olympics.com breaking results and format guide.
How Olympic Breaking Worked: Format and Judging
Each event opened with a round robin of four groups of four breakers. The top two in each group reached the quarter-finals, then the semi-finals and the medal battles. The B-Girls event had 17 entrants, so the 16th and 17th seeds met in a pre-qualifier battle for the last round-robin place, according to the official Paris 2024 Results Book.
A panel of nine judges compared the two breakers in every round, across five criteria that each carried 20% of the vote:
| Criterion | What judges looked for |
|---|---|
| Technique | Body control, athleticism and use of the stage |
| Vocabulary | The range and variety of moves: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes |
| Execution | Clean, sharp moves with no slips or crashes |
| Musicality | How well the breaker rode the DJ’s beat |
| Originality | Personal style and fresh, surprising ideas |
Every round ended with a 9-0, 8-1, 7-2, 6-3 or 5-4 vote, so ties were impossible. Round-robin battles ran over two rounds, and knockout battles were best of three. Judges also had misbehaviour buttons to penalise disrespectful conduct.
Breaking Olympics 2024 Athletes and Qualifiers
The breakdancing Olympics qualifiers 2024 filled 32 quota places, 16 per gender, with a limit of two breakers per gender for each country. The route ran in three steps:
- 2023 WDSF World Championships, Leuven: the winners, Victor (USA) and Nicka (LTU), booked direct places.
- Continental qualifiers: one B-Boy and one B-Girl qualified from each of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
- Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS): Shanghai (16–19 May 2024) and Budapest (20–23 June 2024) handed out the final places.
- Host and universality places: France got one spot per gender, and four universality places went to nations that rarely qualify.
Japan, France and the USA each sent four breakers, the maximum allowed. Nigeria did not enter a breaker, so its Paris 2024 story played out on the track and the wrestling mat instead.
Bad Breakdancing Olympics 2024: The Raygun Moment
The most-shared clip of the Games came from Australia’s Rachael Gunn, who competed as Raygun. She lost all three of her round-robin battles without winning a single judge’s vote, 54-0 across the three battles, and her “kangaroo” move became a global meme. The Australian team and the breaking community condemned the online abuse that followed, and AAP FactCheck debunked false claims that her selection was rigged.
Breaking Olympics 2024: Biggest Stories from Paris
The biggest stories of the 2024 Olympics in Paris were Simone Biles’ comeback, Léon Marchand’s four golds for France, Noah Lyles’ photo-finish 100m win, the debut of breaking, and the scrutiny Algerian boxer Imane Khelif faced before winning gold.
| Story | Key detail |
|---|---|
| Simone Biles | 3 golds (team, all-around, vault) and a floor silver after Tokyo 2020 withdrawal |
| Léon Marchand | 4 individual swimming golds for host nation France |
| Noah Lyles | Won the men’s 100m in 9.784s, beating Kishane Thompson by 0.005 seconds |
| Breaking debut | First Olympic golds: Ami (JPN) and Phil Wizard (CAN) |
| Medal table | USA tied China on 40 golds and topped total medals with 126 |
| Imane Khelif | Won women’s 66kg boxing gold amid a global row over gender eligibility |
| USA men’s basketball team | Beat France 98-87 for a fifth straight Olympic title |
Paris 2024 Medal Table: Top 5
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 40 | 44 | 42 | 126 |
| 2 | China | 40 | 27 | 24 | 91 |
| 3 | Japan | 20 | 12 | 13 | 45 |
| 4 | Australia | 18 | 19 | 16 | 53 |
| 5 | France | 16 | 26 | 22 | 64 |
Final medal leaders: the USA and China tied on 40 golds, and the USA ranked first on its 44 silvers to China’s 27. AP’s final tally and Reuters both confirm the table. Basketball fans can compare those gold-medal rosters with our basketball roster and positions guide.
Nigeria 2024 Olympics: Results and Context
Nigeria sent 88 athletes in 12 sports to Paris and came home without a medal for the first time since London 2012. The low point came before the track events started: Favour Ofili qualified for the women’s 100m, but officials failed to register her. She ran the 200m instead and finished sixth in the final. A federal government panel later blamed Athletics Federation of Nigeria officials for the omission.
For context on Nigeria at the Olympics schedule and results, the nation olympic games Tokyo 2020 haul was two medals: Blessing Oborududu’s wrestling silver and Ese Brume’s long jump bronze. Nigerian hoops fans should read our D’Tigers and D’Tigress guide, and football fans can follow the Super Eagles squad and coach Éric Chelle.
Breaking Olympics 2028 and Brisbane 2032
Breakdancing Olympics 2028 will not happen: LA28 runs from 14 to 30 July 2028 with flag football, cricket, lacrosse, squash, baseball and softball as its additional sports, and breaking is not on the list. The WDSF submitted a formal proposal for Brisbane 2032 on 21 August 2026, and the bid now sits with the IOC Olympic Programme Working Group. IOC President Kirsty Coventry has said Brisbane will have fewer than LA’s 36 sports, so breaking faces a tight race.
Other urban sports have kept their places. Sport climbing returns in 2028 after Paris split the old Tokyo 2020 combined event in two: a speed race and a boulder-and-lead combined event, each scoring up to 100 points per discipline.
Winter Olympics and the Next Olympic Games
The Olympic Games calendar moved on fast after Paris. At the Milano Cortina 2026 winter Olympics, the 2026 winter Olympics women’s single skating free skating went to Alysa Liu of the USA, who scored 150.20 and won gold with 226.79 points. Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto took silver.
Where to Watch Summer Olympic Games
- Replays: Olympics.com hosts free highlights and replays of the breaking battles, subject to regional rights.
- USA: NBCUniversal holds US rights through 2036, with every LA28 event on Peacock.
- Nigeria and the rest of Africa: check your local rights holder closer to the Games; we will update this guide when LA28 broadcast deals are confirmed.
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Sources (2026)
- Olympics.com – Breaking at Paris 2024: FAQ
- Olympics.com – Breaking rules, moves and format
- AP – Breaking community defends Raygun
- BBC Sport – Criticism of Raygun condemned by Australia team
- Olympics.com – Paris 2024 sporting highlights
- Reuters – Ofili says officials failed to register her
- Reuters – Alysa Liu wins Olympic gold in Milan
- Paris 2024 Official Breaking Results Book (WDSF, 11 August 2024); WDSF – Brisbane 2032 proposal (21 August 2026).
Fact-checked on Monday 2 November 2026 (WAT). Every figure above was confirmed by at least two independent sources.
FAQ
How many condoms at the Summer Olympics 2024?
Paris 2024 organisers stocked about 300,000 condoms in the Olympic Village for athletes, alongside a mental health and consent campaign.
Who got disqualified from the Olympics in 2024?
The highest-profile disqualification was India’s Vinesh Phogat. She reached the women’s 50kg freestyle wrestling final but weighed 100 grams over the limit on the morning of the final, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed her appeal.
Who is the current world champion in breakdancing?
Japan’s Shigekix (Shigeyuki Nakarai) and China’s B-Girl Royal (Guo Pu) are the current WDSF world champions. They won the 2025 World Breaking Championships in Kurume, Japan, in December 2025. The next adult world championships take place in Paris on 4–6 December 2026.
Who is the best female break dancer in the world?
There is no official title, but Japan’s Ami holds the strongest record. She is the only B-Girl with two WDSF world titles (2019 and 2022), a Guinness World Record, and she added Olympic gold to them in 2024.
