Before the 2024 Paris Olympics, most people around the world hadn't heard of Rachael Gunn, but after she competed in breakdancing with Australia, there has been plenty of buzz about the breaker we now know as Raygun. After a lot of debate about whether she actually deserved to be at the Olympics, we now have a new plot twist to consider: This week, news broke that Raygun is now officially ranked as the No. 1 breaker in the world.
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The new rankings came out this week.
According to rankings from the World DanceSport Federation, Raygun is now the top female breaker in the world, followed by Riko, who is from Japan, and Stefani, who is from Ukraine.
It's pretty impressive, especially considering that she didn't exactly end up scoring a gold medal at the Olympics. (That went to B-girl Ami of Japan.)
The WDSF has explained how Raygun managed to cinch the top spot.
In a statement issued to the Associated Press, the federation explained that the ranking is calculated by taking the scores of each breaker's top four performances of the past 12 months, excluding the Olympics. Because there were no events between December 2023 and the Olympics to allow athletes time to prepare for Paris, in many cases, there was only one performance within the last 12 months to use to calculate an athlete's ranking.
In Raygun's case, that meant that the 1,000 points she earned at the continental championships in Oceania put her at the top.
The ranking has been met with a fair amount of backlash.
Unsurprisingly, people have a lot of feelings about Raygun's new ranking, and many took to X (formerly Twitter) to speak out.
In response to a tweet from Bleacher Report about the news, one person wrote, "What a disgrace to all the real break dancers across the world."
Another person tweeted, "There's no way this is real."
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Some people involved in the sport aren't happy about the ranking, either — or the WDSF's methodology.
Zack Slusser, vice president of Breaking for Gold USA, told AP that breakers have "no incentive, no desire to even continue participating with the WDSF" beyond the events that are required for them to qualify for the Olympics.
"Speaking of the WDSF, they actually don’t have any real merit with the breakers or the breaking community," Slusser told the news outlet. "And they also haven’t been able to organize events by their measure that would contribute to creating an accurate world ranking."
So far, Raygun has not spoken out about her new ranking.
Just days ago, however, she did tell Australia's Channel 10 that she is tired of the "conspiracy theories" around the way she qualified for the Olympics.
"That was really upsetting, because it wasn't just people that didn't understand breaking and were just angry about my performance," she said at the time. "It was people that are now attacking our reputation and our integrity. And none of them were grounded in any kind of facts."
