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| Full name | Noa Diorgina Man | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 December 2004 Delft, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Parkour | |||||||||||||||||
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Noa Diorgina Man (born 11 December 2004) is a Dutch freerunner and traceur. She is a two-time medalist at the World Games.
Man began her career in freerunning and parkour when she was 7 years old. When she was 13 years of age, she became senior national champion. [1] In 2021, she won the Red Bull Art of Motion. [1] At the Parkour competitions at the 2022 World Games, she won the gold medal in the freestyle event and the silver medal in the speedrun event. [2] [3] [4]
Inge de Bruijn is a Dutch former competitive swimmer. She is a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record-holder.
Parkour is an athletic training discipline or sport in which practitioners attempt to get from one point to another in the fastest and most efficient way possible, without assisting equipment and often while performing feats of acrobatics. With roots in military obstacle course training and martial arts, parkour includes flipping, running, climbing, swinging, vaulting, jumping, plyometrics, rolling, and quadrupedal movement—whatever is suitable for a given situation. Parkour is an activity that can be practiced alone or with others, and is usually carried out in urban spaces, though it can be done anywhere. It involves seeing one's environment in a new way, and envisioning the potential for navigating it by movement around, across, through, over and under its features.
Freerunning is an athletic and acrobatic discipline incorporating an aesthetic element, and can be considered either a sport or a performance art, or both. Freerunning is similar to parkour, from which it is derived, but emphasizes artistry over efficiency and speed. Freerunning involves interacting with physical obstacles in creative ways, such as by climbing, jumping or running; the obstacles may be purpose-built or may be part of a pre-existing natural or man-made environment. The movements are usually adopted from other sports, such as gymnastics, tricking or breakdancing. Freerunners can create their own moves, flows and lines in different landscapes. Practitioners of freerunning usually do parkour as well. Freerunning was founded by Sebastien Foucan, who discussed the subject in 2003 documentary film Jump London.
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