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
