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People’s Republic of ChinaLiu Qingyi (chinesisch Liu Qingyi; Pinyin Liu Qīngyī ; * October 19, 2005 in Huixian, Henan), also known as B-Girl 671is a Chinese break dancer. She won the bronze medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Liu Qingyi grew up in the central Chinese province of Henan. She practiced boxing and taekwondo and practiced the guitar before discovering breaking on the street at the age of ten. She started exercising at a local dance studio and joined the Show Off Crew while training with B-Boy Bo. After joining the Huixian municipal team, she formalized her training routine under her new supervisor B-Boy Chao, winning the Bomb Jam and the 2021 Chinese Championship.[1][2]
As a result of these victories, Liu was accepted into the Chinese national team. She completed her first competition outside of China in October 2021 at the World Championships in Paris organized by the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF), where she took ninth place. The following year she achieved her international breakthrough. Initially, she narrowly missed out on winning a medal by finishing fourth at the Wold Games, before she prevailed against 123 competitors at the Outbreak in Banská Bystrica and thus won her second competition on European soil. A month later she also won the World Battle in Porto. At her second World Cup in Seoul she made it to the final, where she was defeated by Ami Yuasa 1-2. Because of these performances, she received a wildcard for the prestigious Red Bull BC One in Paris, where she only lost to eventual winner India Sardjoe in the semifinals.[2][3]
In 2023, Liu celebrated two victories as part of the WDSF Breaking for Gold World Series in Kitakyushu and Montpellier, but fell just short of the medal ranks at both the Asian Championships and the World Championships in Leuven. At the Asian Games in Hangzhou, where Breaking was on the program for the first time, she won the gold medal with a 2-1 final win against her long-term rival Ami and thus qualified early for the Olympic Games in Paris. In the BC One final she had to admit defeat to the Japanese again.[1][3]
At the 2024 Summer Olympics on the Place de la Concorde, she won the bronze medal with a jury score of 6:3, 9:0 and 4:5 against India after a semi-final defeat against Dominika Banevič alias Nicka.
Since the beginning of her career, Liu Qingyi has primarily focused on power moves and initially trained little in footwork and top rocking. It wasn’t until her second coach, B-Boy Chao, introduced her to hip-hop culture that she found her own style and worked on her understanding of music as part of the Chinese national team. Dance steps with a high level of technical difficulty are loud South China Morning Post their “trump card”. She also consciously integrates Chinese elements into her choreographies.[2][3] Liu herself cites “power, poise and logic” as important characteristics of her own style.[4]
2021
- 9. Platz World Breaking Championship, Paris
2022
- 4. Platz World Games, Birmingham
- 1. Platz Outbreak Europe, Banská Bystrica
- 1. Platz World Battle, Porto
- 2. Platz World Breaking Championship, Seoul
- Top 4 Red Bull BC One, New York City
2023
- 1. Platz WDSF Breaking for Gold World Series, Kitakyushu
- 2. Platz WDSF Breaking for Gold World Series, Rio de Janeiro
- 1. Platz WDSF Breaking for Gold World Series, Montpellier
- 4th place Asian Championships, Hangzhou
- 5th place World Breaking Championship, Leuven
- 1st place Asian Games, Hangzhou
- 2. Platz Red Bull BC One, Paris
2024
- 2024: 3rd place Olympic Games, Paris[5]
- ↑ a b People’s Republic of China’s Breaking “Queen” Liu Qingyi: Be Yourself, Enjoy the Music, Enjoy the Stage. IOC, June 18, 2024, accessed on November 12, 2024 (English).
- ↑ a b c Emmanuel Adelekun: Learn B-Girl 671’s secrets for unlocking the breaking puzzle. Red Bull, August 19, 2024, accessed on November 12, 2024 (English).
- ↑ a b c Meredith Chen: Liu Qingyi: China’s breaking prodigy aiming to make more history at Paris Olympics. South China Morning Post, August 8, 2024, accessed November 12, 2024 (English).
- ↑ TALK SPORTS: B-Girl 671– Liu Qingyi. CGTN Global Watch/YouTube, July 26, 2024, accessed on November 12, 2024 (English).
- ↑ Liu Qingyi. World DanceSport Federation, accessed on November 7, 2024 (English).
Note: In this article, the family name is placed before the person’s first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Liu is the family name here, Qingyi is the first name.
