2024 IBJJF European No-Gi Championship black belt results and highlights
View black belt results and video highlights from the 2024 IBJJF European No-Gi Championship, which took place over the weekend in Rome.
The first major IBJJF no-gi tournament of the year went down last week in Rome, Italy. The 2024 IBJJF European No-Gi Championship drew a number of the planet’s top competitors and saw a mixture of breakout performances and notable performances.
View the full tournament results here.
In the men’s light-feather division, last year’s no-gi European, Pans, and Worlds champion Junny Ocasio continued his run of dominance to claim his second European title. The Unity Jiu-Jitsu representative looked in top form as he aims to repeat another banner year this no-gi season – and continue to assert himself as one of the sport’s top pound-for-pound competitors.
Brown belt no-gi world champion Yigit Hanay lived up to the hype in his European no-gi black belt debut, defeating British standout Jed Hue on his way to taking home gold in the talent-laden lightweight division. After a pair of strong showings at the ADCC European Trials, Hanay seems to be well on his way to becoming a mainstay of the elite no-gi scene.
In other notable men’s action, 2022 no-gi world champion Sebastian Rodriguez joined Junny Ocasio as Unity’s second European champion, defeating ADCC veteran Jeremy Skinner in the final of the medium-heavy division. Also, decorated American veteran Rafael Lovato Jr. picked up the first European no-gi title of his lengthy career with dominant performances in the super-heavy division.
Meanwhile, on the women’s side, ADCC veterans Julia Maele, Brianna Ste-Marie, and Aurelie Le Vern each earned gold in the lightweight, middle, and medium-heavy divisions, respectively.
Also, Spanish-British standout Anabel Lopez Beard, still less than six months into her black belt career, made waves in the heavyweight division where she defeated ADCC veteran Nia Blackman to claim gold. Given her long list of accomplishments at the colored belts, fans should keep an eye on Lopez moving forward, as she stands to see a breakout year this no-gi season.
2024 IBJJF European No-Gi Championship black belt results
Men’s divisions
Rooster
- 1st – Christopher Tran
- 2nd – John Stapleton
- 3rd – Denis Beenen
- 3rd – Weslei Kellisson Silva Costa
Light-feather
- 1st – Junny Ocasio
- 2nd – Leonardo Martins de Souza
- 3rd – Daniel de Groot
- 3rd – Lucas Tomas Canto
Feather
- 1st – Julian Espinosa
- 2nd – Sam McNally
- 3rd – Anthony Guy de Oliveira
- 3rd – Marius Florin Spac
Light
- 1st – Yigit Hanay
- 2nd – Alessandro Oliveira Botelho
- 3rd – Jed Hue
- 3rd – Rafal Farjaszweski
Middle
- 1st – Fabyury Freitas
- 2nd – Pierre-Olivier Leclerc
- 3rd – Ellis Younger
- 3rd – Kieran Kichuk
Medium-Heavy
- 1st- Sebastian Rodriguez
- 2nd – Jeremy Skinner
- 3rd – Austin Oranday
- 3rd – Shane Fishman
Heavy
- 1st – Manuel Pilato
- 2nd – Mantas Daublys
- 3rd – Caio Viturnio de Mendonca
- 3rd – Jose Juremea Nascimento de Carvalho
Super-Heavy
- 1st – Rafael Lovato Jr.
- 2nd – Jean Luca Maltese
- 3rd – Gabriel Almeida
- 3rd – Thomas Bracher
Ultra-Heavy
- 1st – Heikki Jussila
- 2nd – Andrzej Iwat
- 3rd – Luc Pierre Marcel Rousseau
- 3rd – Lukasz Janeczek
Open class
- 1st – Gabriel Almeida
- 2nd – Frederic Vosgrone
- 3rd – Anthony Robinson
- 3rd – Heikki Jussila
Women’s divisions
Light-feather
- 1st – Scout Feitosa Pereira
Feather
- 1st – Raquel Ferreira da Silva
- 2nd – Emily Nicholson
- 3rd – Ashley Bendle
- 3rd – Lorena Balli
Light
- 1st- Julia Maele
- 2nd – Suvi-Tuuli Susanna Koikkalainen
- 3rd – Izabel Vieira Seki
- 3rd – Zofia Szawernowska
Middle
- 1st – Brianna Ste-Marie
- 2nd – Rosa Walsh
- 3rd – Antonia Gamila Kanew
- 3rd – Vannessa Nancy Griffin
Medium-Heavy
- 1st – Aurelie Le Vern
- 2nd – Ane N. Svendsen
- 3rd – Amanda Schurtz
- 3rd – Salla Mari Simola
Heavy
- 1st – Anabel Lopez Beard
- 2nd – Nia Blackman
- 3rd – Bridget Mceliece
- 3rd – Elizabeth Mitrovic
Open class
- 1st – Aurelie Le Vern
- 2nd – Anabel Lopez Beard
- 3rd – Ane N. Svendsen
- 3rd – Salla Mari Simola
