Paris 2024 Olympics breaking, Australia schedule: Rachael Gunn and Jeff Dunne to make debut
Rachael Gunn and Jeff Dunne will be the two Australians who will be looking to make a mark at the sport’s Olympic debut at the Paris 2024 Olympics breaking competition with events scheduled on August 10 and 11.
Gunn and Dunne are set to be Australia’s first-ever breaking Olympians.
B-Girl Rachael Gunn, a 36-year-old university lecturer from Sydney, who goes by the name Raygun while performing, is Australia’s top-ranked B-Girl and has represented Australia at the past three World Championships.
B-Boy Jeff Dunne, going by J-Attack, is a 16-year-old from New South Wales who trains up to six hours every day in order to improve his style and movement.
Both Gunn and Dunne secured Paris 2024 Olympic quotas by winning the Oceania Breaking Championships in Sydney last year before being officially announced by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC).
Breaking combines urban dance with athleticism and athletes get judged on their creativity, personality, technique, variety, performance, as well as musicality.
Breaking battles have an MC and DJ – unlike other dance or routines that are practiced to set music, breakers don’t know what music they will be performing to, with how they adapt and weave their skills into the tracks a key part of their scoring.
It is the first dancesport discipline to be included in the official Olympic programme and breaking will be making its Olympic debut at Paris 2024. It appeared at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in 2018.
Events will be held at the Place de la Concorde and 32 athletes (16 b-boys and 16 b-girls) will face each other in 1v1 single battles.
Paris 2024 Olympics Australia’s breaking schedule
All in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
Where to watch Paris 2024 Olympics breaking live in Australia
Live streaming of breaking at the Paris 2024 Olympics will be available on 9Now and Stan. The Paris 2024 breaking events will be broadcast live on the Network Nine TV channels in Australia.