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Sunny Choi (born November 10, 1988),[1] also known as Grace Choi[2] and mononymously as Sunny,[1] is an American breakdancer. She participated at the 2022 World Games in the dancesport competition where she won the silver medal[3] in the B-Girls event.[1][4]
In 2023, she won the first gold medal in breakdancing ever given at the Pan American Games.[2] Because of that, she became the first American woman to qualify for breakdancing at the 2024 Olympics, the first Olympics to have breakdancing.[5]
Non-breakdancing work
Choi was the director of global creative operations at Estée Lauder, before quitting in January 2023 to focus on breakdancing.[5]
References
- ^ a b c "2022 World Games: DanceSports Breaking Results Book" (PDF). World Games. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
- ^ a b "U.S. B-girl "Sunny" Choi wins 1st breaking gold medal at Pan American Games, qualifies for Paris". AP News. November 5, 2023.
- ^ "Ami Yuasa wins World Games gold as Ayumi Fukushima finishes third". The Japan Times. July 12, 2022. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
- ^ Berkeley, Geoff (July 10, 2022). "Egyptian sumo team banned from World Games over "poor sportsmanship"". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
- ^ a b "Sunny Choi is first U.S. woman to qualify for Olympic breaking". NBC Sports. November 4, 2023.
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