5 World Champions Headed To Italy For The IBJJF European Championships
5 World Champions Headed To Italy For The IBJJF European Championships
The first major IBJJF event of the year will see the return of five 2021 IBJJF World Champions.
The registration deadline for the 2022 IBJJF European Championships is today, and several athletes have waited until the eleventh hour to throw their names in for the first major tournament of the season.
Those late registrants include two new world champions: Tainan Dalpra and Gabi Pessanha were both confirmed last night.
Dalpra and Pessanha will join Erich Munis, Anna Rodrigues and Mayssa Bastos as the 2021 black belt world champions set to compete at the European Championships in Rome, Italy.
Four of these five athletes earned their first world titles in December of 2021; Bastos earned her second Worlds gold last year.
Several other key competitors registered yesterday, including roosterweight favorite Thalison Soares, Norwegian lightweight Espen Mathiesen, and UK-born Margot Ciccarelli.
See the full list of black belt registrants below:
BLACK belt
Adult / Male / Rooster
TOTAL: 7
TEAM | NAME |
Carlson Gracie Switzerland | Lucas Feitosa Pereira Bosshard |
Cicero Costha Europe | Francisco Jonas B. Andrade |
Cicero Costha Europe | Thalison Vitorino Soares |
Hilti BJJ Turku | Marko Tapani Oikarainen |
Morro dos Campeões | Welerson Gonçalves da Silva |
PSLPB Cicero Costha | Johnif de Oliveira Rocha |
PSLPB Cicero Costha | Yuri Hendrex Assunção Soares |
Adult / Male / Light-Feather
TOTAL: 14
TEAM | NAME |
Alay Jiu-Jitsu Team | Samarbek Sabyrzhan Uulu |
Ares BJJ | Keven Carrasco |
Carlson Gracie Team Alberta | Huthayfah Penney |
CFC Team | Oscar Fernández Calderón |
CFC Team | Xavier Bas Cuenca |
CheckMat | Daniël de Groot |
Cicero Costha Europe | Silvio Olinto Rocha Cavalcante |
Grand Union Jiu-Jitsu | Igor V. Terreco |
IFT | Jonathan Allouche |
Morro dos Campeões | Ronald Dias Alves |
PSLPB Cicero Costha | Hiago George Santos Silva |
PSLPB Cicero Costha | Kalel Nascimento dos Santos |
PSLPB Cicero Costha | Marcos Olinto Rocha Cavalcante |
Renzo Gracie Academy | Max Peter de Been |
Adult / Male / Feather
TOTAL: 20
TEAM | NAME |
Alliance International | Dzhimsher Razmadze |
Alliance International | Foto Xhori |
Barbosa Jiu-Jitsu | Matheus Yudi Onda |
CF24 Jiu-Jitsu | Benjamin Charles Robson |
CFC Team | Sergio Calderon Gonzalez |
CheckMat International | Kiren Newadj |
Clube Feijão de Jiu-Jitsu | Raimundo Diego Pinto Sodre |
ECJJA | Marcus John Phelan |
ECJJA | Sam Matthew Mc Nally |
Faz Forca Team | Konstantinos Lampos |
Gracie Barra Birmingham | Rhys Price |
Gracie Barra Northridge | Naser J M TH A Abdulkareem |
Hangon Hyrskyt | Jukka Tuomas Ensio Kokkonen |
Nova União | Lucas Virgilio da Penha Boa Morte |
Soul Fighter's Israel | Viki Viktor Dabush |
Start Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu | Eduardo de Araujo Roque |
Tribe Jiu-Jitsu Firenze Nord | Luca Caracciolo |
ZR Team Brasil | Wilhiam Mateus Marques da Silva |
ZR Team UK | Romao Pereira de Carvalho |
ZR Team Ukraine | Yaroslav Blazhko |
Adult / Male / Light
TOTAL: 22
TEAM | NAME |
Aeterna Jiu Jitsu | Nicola Castellano |
Alliance International | Ayub Magomadov |
Atos JJ International | Ahmed Laaribi |
Brasa CTA France | Léon Taffa Loic Larman |
Carlson Gracie International | Gyula Gyorgy Szabó |
Carlson Gracie Team | Alexandre Faria Molinaro |
CF24 Jiu-Jitsu | Bryn Meirion Jenkins |
CheckMat | Lucas Andre Galvão Protasio |
CheckMat International | Max Leonard Lindblad |
CheckMat/The House | Marcelo Fausto de Abreu Montanagna |
Cicero Costha France | Haidar Raza Abbas |
Focus Jiu-Jitsu Espanha | Alberto Guzman Gil |
Future School of Jiu-Jitsu | Igor Nascimento da Costa Feliz |
Gracie Barra Birmingham | Krzysztof Marek Suchorabski |
Gracie Barra Derby | Stephen Patrick Martin |
Hilti BJJ Turku | Riku Ville Eemeli Hapulahti |
Jiu-Jitsu For Life Europe | Avihai Amnon Balila |
KMR BJJ Kimura Europe | Espen Mathiesen |
Marcio Andre Association | Marcio Andre da Costa Barbosa Junior |
Mill Hill BJJ | Dinu Silviu Bucalet |
PSLPB Cicero Costha | Natan Chueng Freitas |
Total Center Lahti | Severi Nenonen |
Adult / Male / Middle
TOTAL: 20
TEAM | NAME |
Aeterna Jiu Jitsu | Remo Cassella |
Art of Jiu Jitsu | Tainan Dalpra Costa |
Atos JJ International | Evyatar Paperni |
Budo Clan | Fabio Pititto |
Carlson Gracie Team Alberta | Matheus Ferreira de Paula Rocha Felippe |
Checkmat Alan FinFou | Adrian Kozicz |
CheckMat USA | Kauan Argimon Barboza |
Focus Jiu-Jitsu | Pedro Henrique Matias Dias |
Frontline Academy | Eduardo Rios |
Frontline Academy | Tarik Hopstock |
Hilti BJJ Tampere | Jaakko Emil Johannes Hulkkonen |
KMR BJJ Kimura Europe | Tommy Lilleskog Langaker |
Pound for Pound Deutschland | Alexander Matschl |
Rio Grappling Club Europe | Jacek Piotr Bańczyk |
Roger Gracie Academy | Oscar Gugala |
Royal Jiu-Jitsu | Bradley Hill |
Team Felipe Martins | Yuri Malko |
USGO - JJ | Murillo Henrique Soares Rezende |
WAO | Remy Max Marcon |
Werdum Combat Team France | Muhammet Bayraktar |
Adult / Male / Medium-Heavy
TOTAL: 22
TEAM | NAME |
Adamas BJJ | Pablo Estepa |
Aeterna Jiu Jitsu | Luca Anacoreta |
Alexandre Machado Association - AMA Jiu-Jitsu Team | Bruno Filipe Santos Lima |
Alliance JJ | Matheus Spirandeli Souza |
Atos Jiu-Jitsu Rio | Matheus Vetoraci de Menezes |
CheckMat International | Remo Corstjens |
Double Five Highland Village | Rodrigo Lopes Martins |
ECJJA | Shane L. Fishman |
Frontline Academy | Alvaro Enrico Fernandez Ribeiro |
GFTeam Porto | Thiago Andrade Do Nascimento |
Gracie Barcelona | Ramon Gomez |
Gracie Barra Nottingham | Jamie Brian Paxman |
Gracie Barra Nottingham | Sean Coates |
Gulf Breeze Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu / Checkmat | Abraao Amorim Magalhaes |
Mathias Ribeiro Team | Arturo Salas Espies |
MatSide Jiu-Jitsu | Jacopo Pasquini |
Ricardo Pinheiro | Nicolas Kazuaki Shiromizu Oyaneder |
Rio Grappling Club Europe | Karol Zbigniew Kania |
Soul Fighter's Israel | Saar Shemesh |
ZR Team Hungary | Szilard Sule |
ZR Team Rennes | Matthieu Philippe Thibaud P Camus |
ZR Team UK | Taylor Michael Pearman |
Adult / Male / Heavy
TOTAL: 17
TEAM | NAME |
Atos Jiu-Jitsu | Dominique L. Bell |
Atos JJ International | Paulo Fernando Cateriano Begazo |
Carpe Diem | Reda Hamed Mebtouche |
CheckMat | Caio Viturino de Mendonça |
Checkmat Alan FinFou | Adam Wardzinski |
CheckMat International | Simon Immerstrand |
Faz Forca Team | Eleftherios Pagkalos |
Gracie Barra Birmingham | Jakub Zajkowski |
Gracie Barra Birmingham | Thomas Bracher |
Gracie Barra Greece | Ioannis Proios |
Hilti BJJ Turku | Miika Suvanto |
PSLPB Cicero Costha | Hygor Brito da Silva |
Qatar BJJ / Vision Brasil | Filipe Pimentel Pinheiro |
Qatar BJJ / Vision Brasil | Neocicero Barbosa |
Soul Fighter's Israel | Roy Dagan |
Strela Team | Abdulbari Guseinov |
ZR Team UK | Janis Riekstins |
Adult / Male / Super-Heavy
TOTAL: 12
TEAM | NAME |
Alliance Marcelo Garcia | Vinicius Ferreira Gazola |
Alliance San Diego | Fellipe Andrew Leandro Silva |
Checkmat Alan FinFou | Patryk Wysocki |
CheckMat International | Julian Stonjek |
Dream Art | Erich Munis dos Santos |
Gracie Barra Hamburg City | Eric Jasper Bergmann |
Gracie Humaita International | Jan Victor Zander |
Grappling Krakow | Dominik Piotr Olszewski |
Hilti BJJ Tampere | Perttu Tapio Tepponen |
Marcio Cruz Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu | Renan Cruz |
PS Phoenix BJJ International | Ezequiel Esteves Nogueira |
SBG Ireland | Richard Kevin Crosdale |
Adult / Male / Ultra-Heavy
TOTAL: 14
TEAM | NAME |
Brasa Poland | Andrzej Iwat |
Carlson Gracie UK | Frederic Leonhard Vosgröne |
CheckMat International | Karim Mohamed Ait Khalifa |
Checkmat Qatar | Matheus Felipe da Silva Xavier |
Dream Art | Yatan Martins Bueno |
Focus Jiu-Jitsu | Guilherme Afonso Freire Themudo Jardim |
Gracie Barra America | AJ Agazarm |
Gracie Barra Campinas-SP | Agnaldo Luiz da Silveira |
Icon Jiu-Jitsu Team - Rio de Janeiro | Felipe Figueiredo Mauricio |
PJJ Fight Team | Arya Esfandmaz |
Qatar BJJ / Vision Brasil | Tacio Carneiro Alves |
Roger Gracie Academy Italy | Wesley Lopes Caixeta |
Soul Fighter's Israel | Almog Britsch |
Total Center Lahti | Mikko Sakari Veijonen |
Adult / Female / Rooster
TOTAL: 4
TEAM | NAME |
Atos Jiu-Jitsu | Thaís Loureiro Felipe |
Flow | Serena Gabrielli |
Unique Logic Jiu-Jitsu HQ | Kaori Asela Hernandez |
Unity Jiu-jitsu | Mayssa Caldas Pereira Bastos |
Adult / Female / Light-Feather
TOTAL: 4
TEAM | NAME |
CheckMat International | Rose-Marie El Sharouni |
Dream Art | Ana Cristina Araujo Rodrigues |
Team Ganbaru | Naiomi Anaiansi Matthews Martín |
The Match Champ | Maria Eduarda Tozoni Ono |
Adult / Female / Feather
TOTAL: 8
TEAM | NAME |
Alliance International | Erika Ontiveros Sánchez |
Brasa Poland | Zofia Szawernowska |
CheckMat | Gabriela Meireles Fechter |
Cicero Costha Canada | Janine Lillian Mutton |
Gracie Barra Birmingham | Ashley Louise Bendle |
Gracie Humaita Reunion | Larissa Campos Carvalho |
Qatar BJJ / Vision Brasil | Gabriela Andrelevicius Pereira |
ZR Team Brasil | Andreia Lopes Cavalcante |
Adult / Female / Light
TOTAL: 9
TEAM | NAME |
CheckMat | Luciane dos Santos Silva |
CheckMat USA | Nathalie Wan Soares Veras Ribeiro |
ECJJA | Ffion Eira Davies |
Gordo Jiu-Jitsu | Larissa Paes da Silva |
Gracie Humaita International | Amandine Cathy Nadege Layec |
Gracie Humaita International | Hannah Katharina Rauch |
Soul Fighter's Israel | Meshy Rosenfeld |
Team Thurin JJB | Lauriane Alicia Christiane Thurin |
Unity Jiu-Jitsu International | Margot Ciccarelli |
Adult / Female / Middle
TOTAL: 6
TEAM | NAME |
Alvarez Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu | Danielle Renee Alvarez |
Gold Team Fighters | Priscila Batista |
Gracie Humaita San Diego Competition Team | Janaina Maia de Menezes |
Iron Roots BJJ | Erin Johnson |
OXY | Julia Maele |
Qatar BJJ / Vision Brasil | Thalyta Stefhane Lima Silva |
Adult / Female / Medium-Heavy
TOTAL: 5
TEAM | NAME |
Brasa Poland | Magdalena Zofia Loska |
Fight Sports | Margaret Rose Grindatti |
Gracie Barra Belo Horizonte-MG | Raiane Mara dos Santos |
Roger Gracie Academy | Julija Stoliarenko |
Unity Jiu-jitsu | Chloé McNally |
Adult / Female / Super-Heavy
TOTAL: 3
TEAM | NAME |
Brazilian Power Team | Katiúscia Yasmira Pires Dias |
Infight JJ | Gabrieli Pessanha de Souza Marinho |
Panda Supa Crew | Claire-France Thevenon |