View black belt outcomes and video highlights from the 2024 IBJJF European No-Gi Championship, which occurred over the weekend in Rome.
The primary main IBJJF no-gi match of the yr went down final week in Rome, Italy. The 2024 IBJJF European No-Gi Championship drew various the planet’s prime rivals and noticed a combination of breakout performances and notable performances.
View the complete match outcomes here.
Within the males’s light-feather division, final yr’s no-gi European, Pans, and Worlds champion Junny Ocasio continued his run of dominance to say his second European title. The Unity Jiu-Jitsu consultant appeared in prime kind as he goals to repeat one other banner yr this no-gi season – and proceed to claim himself as one of many sport’s prime pound-for-pound rivals.
Brown belt no-gi world champion Yigit Hanay lived as much as the hype in his European no-gi black belt debut, defeating British standout Jed Hue on his strategy to taking house gold within the talent-laden light-weight division. After a pair of sturdy showings on the ADCC European Trials, Hanay appears to be effectively on his strategy to changing into a mainstay of the elite no-gi scene.
In different notable males’s motion, 2022 no-gi world champion Sebastian Rodriguez joined Junny Ocasio as Unity’s second European champion, defeating ADCC veteran Jeremy Skinner within the last of the medium-heavy division. Additionally, adorned American veteran Rafael Lovato Jr. picked up the primary European no-gi title of his prolonged profession with dominant performances within the super-heavy division.
In the meantime, on the ladies’s aspect, ADCC veterans Julia Maele, Brianna Ste-Marie, and Aurelie Le Vern every earned gold within the light-weight, center, and medium-heavy divisions, respectively.
Additionally, Spanish-British standout Anabel Lopez Beard, nonetheless lower than six months into her black belt profession, made waves within the heavyweight division the place she defeated ADCC veteran Nia Blackman to say gold. Given her lengthy checklist of accomplishments on the coloured belts, followers ought to regulate Lopez shifting ahead, as she stands to see a breakout yr this no-gi season.
2024 IBJJF European No-Gi Championship black belt outcomes
Males’s divisions
Rooster
- 1st – Christopher Tran
- 2nd – John Stapleton
- third – Denis Beenen
- third – Weslei Kellisson Silva Costa
Gentle-feather
- 1st – Junny Ocasio
- 2nd – Leonardo Martins de Souza
- third – Daniel de Groot
- third – Lucas Tomas Canto
Feather
- 1st – Julian Espinosa
- 2nd – Sam McNally
- third – Anthony Man de Oliveira
- third – Marius Florin Spac
Gentle
- 1st – Yigit Hanay
- 2nd – Alessandro Oliveira Botelho
- third – Jed Hue
- third – Rafal Farjaszweski
Center
- 1st – Fabyury Freitas
- 2nd – Pierre-Olivier Leclerc
- third – Ellis Youthful
- third – Kieran Kichuk
Medium-Heavy
- 1st- Sebastian Rodriguez
- 2nd – Jeremy Skinner
- third – Austin Oranday
- third – Shane Fishman
Heavy
- 1st – Manuel Pilato
- 2nd – Mantas Daublys
- third – Caio Viturnio de Mendonca
- third – Jose Juremea Nascimento de Carvalho
Tremendous-Heavy
- 1st – Rafael Lovato Jr.
- 2nd – Jean Luca Maltese
- third – Gabriel Almeida
- third – Thomas Bracher
Extremely-Heavy
- 1st – Heikki Jussila
- 2nd – Andrzej Iwat
- third – Luc Pierre Marcel Rousseau
- third – Lukasz Janeczek
Open class
- 1st – Gabriel Almeida
- 2nd – Frederic Vosgrone
- third – Anthony Robinson
- third – Heikki Jussila
Ladies’s divisions
Gentle-feather
- 1st – Scout Feitosa Pereira
Feather
- 1st – Raquel Ferreira da Silva
- 2nd – Emily Nicholson
- third – Ashley Bendle
- third – Lorena Balli
Gentle
- 1st- Julia Maele
- 2nd – Suvi-Tuuli Susanna Koikkalainen
- third – Izabel Vieira Seki
- third – Zofia Szawernowska
Center
- 1st – Brianna Ste-Marie
- 2nd – Rosa Walsh
- third – Antonia Gamila Kanew
- third – Vannessa Nancy Griffin
Medium-Heavy
- 1st – Aurelie Le Vern
- 2nd – Ane N. Svendsen
- third – Amanda Schurtz
- third – Salla Mari Simola
Heavy
- 1st – Anabel Lopez Beard
- 2nd – Nia Blackman
- third – Bridget Mceliece
- third – Elizabeth Mitrovic
Open class
- 1st – Aurelie Le Vern
- 2nd – Anabel Lopez Beard
- third – Ane N. Svendsen
- third – Salla Mari Simola
