PARIS — The breaking competition continues today at the 2024 Paris Olympics, with the B-Boys taking center stage.
Olympic breaking gold medal bracket is set
The round-robin stage of the competition has come and gone. Only eight men will have a chance to win an Olympic breaking medal. Here is how the medal bracket has shaken out.
- Quarterfinals: B-boy Dany Dann (France) vs. B-boy Jeffro (USA) at 2 p.m. ET
- Quarterfinals: B-boy Amir (Kazakhstan) vs. B-boy Victor (USA) at 2:07 p.m. ET
- Quarterfinals: B-boy Shigekix (Japan) vs. B-boy Menno (Netherlands) at 2:15 p.m. ET
- Quarterfinals: B-boy Lee (Netherlands) vs. B-boy Phil Wizard (Canada) at 2:23 p.m. ET
- Semifinals: Dany Dann/Jeffro vs. Amir/Victor at 2:47 p.m. ET
- Semifinals: Shigekix/Menno vs. Lee/Phil Wizard at 2:55 p.m. ET
- Bronze medal battle: TBD vs. TBD at 3:19 p.m. ET
- Gold medal battle: TBD vs. TBD at 3:29 p.m. ET
The breaking competition (practitioners prefer breaking to breakdancing) starts with a round-robin tournament, four groups of four breakers, with each one going two rounds against the other three in their group. From there, the top two B-Boys in each group — as determined by who won the most rounds — advance to the quarterfinals. The quarters, semis and finals are three rounds in a traditional bracket style.
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B-boy Victor, B-boy Jeffro of Team USA advance to medal round
Both of the two Americans in the men’s Olympic breaking competition will move on to the knockout round − and they could theoretically run into one another in the semis.
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B-boy Victor, whose full name is Victor Montalvo, appeared to draw one of the tougher groups in the round-robin stage but tore through his first three opponents with relative ease − winning five of his six rounds, including sweeps of Japanese breaker Hiro10 and B-boy Lithe-ing of China. Shigekix of Japan was the other breaker to advance out of Victor’s group.
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B-boy Jeffro, whose real name is Jeffrey Louis, had mathematically clinched his spot in the quarterfinals even before he went out for his third battle. He won each of his first two battles handily and earned 30 of the possible 36 votes from the nine-person judging panel in the process.
Breaking at the 2024 Summer Olympics