Rachael Gunn (aka Raygun), the Australian breakdancer who went viral for her performance at the Paris Olympics, is the world’s no.1 ranked female breaker according to the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF).
Gunn’s ranking comes after the dancer lost all three of her matches in Paris and wasn’t awarded a single point by the judges. The three b-girls who won Olympic medals are not ranked in the top 10.
How is Raygun the world’s top breaker?
The WDSF rankings take into account an athlete’s best four performances at specific ranking events within the last year.
These events did not include some Olympic qualifiers or the Games, meaning no competitions have contributed to the ranking since December 2023.
As a result, Raygun’s win at the Oceania championships in 2023 has contributed heavily to her current no.1 ranking. The next WDSF ranking event is in Shanghai in October, where it’s expected the rankings will shift.
What they said:
Some within the breaking community have discredited the WDSF as a sporting body that breakers only participated within to qualify for the Olympic Games.
Zack Slusser, the vice president of Breaking for Gold USA, told the Associated Press that the WDSF doesn’t “have any real merit with the breakers or the breaking community.”
