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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.
Sardjoe was born in 2006 in The Hague, Netherlands. [2] [3] Her father is from Suriname and mother from the Netherlands. [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]
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)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.