Dominika Banevič
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Dominika Banevič (Polish: Dominika Baniewicz; born 8 June 2007), also known as B-Girl Nicka, is a Lithuanian breakdancer of Polish ethnicity who won the 2023 European Championships title.[1] In 2024, she won silver at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.[2] She is one of the highest profile international bgirls, and represents as a Red Bull BC One All Star.[3]
Nicka is known as an all-round breaker, whose style combines musicality, power moves and footwork, and aims to have a unique style and self-expression.[4] Nicka also focuses on nutrition and psychology as part of the preparation for athletic competition.
Career
[edit | edit source]Banevič is a student at the Polish-language John Paul II Gymnasium in Vilnius.[5] She started practicing break dancing in September 2015.[5] In 2021, she took part in the Polish School Youth Sports Games in Łomża.[6] At the age of 16, she became world champion in Leuven in 2023.[7][8][9] In 2023, Banevič won the Lithuanian national championships for the 4th time.[10]
Banevič represented Lithuania in break dancing at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics,[11] and won the silver medal in a tightly contested final against Japanese bgirl Ami Yuasa.[12] Nicka qualified from a group including home favourite Syssy, and former BC One champion Logistx and defeated both Chinese entrants Ying Zi and 671 in the finals. Upon returning to Lithuania, Česlav Okinčic, the former president of the Lithuanian Golf Federation, presented Dominika with a new electric car on behalf of the golf community and all nationalities of Vilnius.[13]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Dominika Banevič (B-Girl Nicka) at the World DanceSport Federation
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- Nicka (Dominika Banevic) at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Dominika Banevič-Bgirl Nicka at the Lietuvos tautinis olimpinis komitetas (in Lithuanian)
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- 2007 births
- Living people
- Lithuanian breakdancers
- Lithuanian female dancers
- Olympic breakdancers for Lithuania
- Olympic medalists in breakdancing
- Olympic silver medalists for Lithuania
- Breakdancers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- European Games bronze medalists for Lithuania
- European Games medalists in breaking
- Breakdancers at the 2023 European Games
- Lithuanian people of Polish descent
- Sportspeople from Vilnius
- 21st-century Lithuanian sportswomen
- World Games bronze medalists for Lithuania
- World Games medalists in dancesport
- Medalists at the 2025 World Games
- Dance biography stubs
- Lithuanian sportspeople stubs
- European Olympic medalist stubs