The first major Brazilian Jiu-jitsu (BJJ) event of the year will be a pretty long one, as more than 6,000 grapplers have gathered in Lisbon, Portugal. The 2025 IBJJF European Championship starts TODAY (Fri., Jan. 17, 2025) and will go on for well over a week until next SUNDAY (Jan. 25, 2025).
The gi Brazilian jiu-jitsu event will stream LIVE on FloGrappling, starting at 4:30 a.m. ET on Friday, and will continue for nine full days Saturday. A free live stream of the earlier matches will likely be on YouTube, which will be embedded below once it’s available.
2025 IBJJF Euros preview: BJJ champs take first step to Grand Slam title
The 2025 IBJJF European Championship is the first of the four major IBJJF tournaments, with the IBJJF World Championship, Pan Americans, and Brazilian Nationals all happening later this year.
For those looking to win all four majors and achieve the distinction as an “IBJJF Grand Slam” winner, this event is the first step.
In 2024, Gabi Pessanha and Mica Galvao both achieved this and won all four majors, but Galvao took it a step further by taking gold at ADCC 2024 to achieve an even rarer distinction as the “2024 Super Grand Slam winner.” There won’t be an ADCC World Championships in 2025, and Galvao has seemingly decided to stop joining points competitions this year, but there are still several decorated world champs signed up to participate in this iteration of the IBJJF Euros.
By far the most stacked division in the IBJJF Euros is at featherweight, which will have six-time world champ Diego Pato, and no gi world champs Cole Abate and Kennedy Maciel, all returning to gi competition. Middleweight could also see a rematch between IBJJF Crown winners Tainan Dalpra and Andy Murasaki, who won the last Crown due to injury.
The other decorated BJJ stars competing are two-time ADCC champ Diogo Reis, Thalison Soares, Joao Mendes, and Adam Wardzinski.
The women’s side of things will have Gabi Pessanha, Mayssa Bastos, and Melissa Striker Cueto trying to add to their long list of BJJ titles.
Lower belts start on the first couple of days, with the list of competitors found here. Black belt Master divisions start on Tuesday (Jan. 21, 2025), while Adult black belt divisions happen on the final two days of the event (Jan. 24-25, 2025).
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2025 IBJJF European Championship: Results and Video Highlights
A record setting turnout is in Portugal, as over 6000 competitors have joined the massive nine-day event, with adult black belt divisions alone accounting for well over 200 grapplers. This results post will mainly focus on black belts, along with the few notable professionals and performances in the colored belts.
The long list of medalists and key highlights will be posted below, so keep checking back in the next nine days for all the 2025 IBJJF Euros action.
Blue Belt
Natalee Funegra, a teenage BJJ prodigy from AOJ, won double gold at the Juvenile 2 blue belt division.
Black Belt
In the Master 1 division (30 years old and up), Lucas Laet Moutinho and Mayara Custodio both won double gold, while Wallace Ourique beat the legend Joao Miyao in the light featherweight finals.
MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / ROOSTER (57.50KG)
Gold: José Jeovan da Silva Júnior
Silver: Mehdi Vincent T. Doceux
Bronze: Carlielson Torcate Batista
Bronze: Frank Eduardo Quiñonez Oviedo
MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / LIGHT-FEATHER (64.00KG)
Gold: Wallace Henrique Nunes Ourique
Silver: João Ricardo Bordignon Miyao
Bronze: Jonghwa Park
Bronze: Oscar Fernández Calderón
MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / FEATHER (70.00KG)
Gold: Hiago George Santos Silva
Silver: John Lenno Melo Dantas
Bronze: Alejandro Carreras Lecoq
Bronze: Cláudio Augusto Macedo Silva
MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / LIGHT (76.00KG)
Gold: Murilo Guimarães do Amaral
Silver: Jan Andreas Basso
Bronze: Daniel Peter Scanno
Bronze: Vinicius dos Santos Pereira
MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / MIDDLE (82.30KG)
Gold: Lee Sanghyeon
Silver: Lars Erik Mikael Friberg
Bronze: Bryn Meirion Jenkins
Bronze: Marek Tadeusz Suśniak
MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / MEDIUM-HEAVY (88.30KG)
Gold: Lucas Laet Mattos Moutinho
Silver: Júlio Cezar dos Anjos Junior
Bronze: Lucas Figueiredo Duarte Rego
Bronze: Ramon Soares Rosa
MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / HEAVY (94.30KG)
Gold: Horlando de Jesus Monteiro
Silver: Filipe Pimentel Pinheiro
Bronze: Ruan Marques de Oliveira
Bronze: Sergio Raimundo Rios da Silva
MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / SUPER-HEAVY (100.50KG)
Gold: Wellington Modena Peroto
Silver: Rodrigo de Sousa Laurindo
Bronze: Guilherme Afonso Freire Themudo Jardim
Bronze: Stanislav Varshavskiy
MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / ULTRA-HEAVY
Gold: Marcus Vinicius Gabriel Oliveira
Silver: Alexander Sak
Bronze: Cleiton de Almeida Santos
Bronze: Euclides Florival Ferreira de Castro
MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / OPEN CLASS
Gold: Lucas Laet Mattos Moutinho
Silver: Sergio Raimundo Rios da Silva
Bronze: Euclides Florival Ferreira de Castro
Bronze: Horlando de Jesus Monteiro
FEMALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / ROOSTER (48.50KG)
Gold: Emilie Neto
FEMALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / LIGHT-FEATHER (53.50KG)
Gold: Paola Bernardette Gutierrez Gonzalez
Silver: Stephanie Anne Diniz A. de Souza
Bronze: Clarissa Junqueira Lapa de Lacerda
Bronze: Luna Barea Navas
FEMALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / FEATHER (58.50KG)
Gold: Christine Anne Martin
Silver: Georgina Contel Gallego
Bronze: Erika Ontiveros Sánchez
Bronze: Melissa Maria Ariel Templeman
FEMALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / LIGHT (64.00KG)
Gold: Laura Tellervo Virtanen
Silver: Rebeca Benevides de Jesus
Bronze: Kenza Zeghari
Bronze: Maggie Kelly Mahon
FEMALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / MIDDLE (69.00KG)
Gold: Gamila Kanew
Silver: Bruna Driely Ricalde Maciel
Bronze: Kelsey Lynn Harrell
Bronze: Márcia Karina Figueiredo Ramos
FEMALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / MEDIUM-HEAVY (74.00KG)
Gold: Maria Eduarda Vieira Santos
Silver: Thais Alves Peregrino Prestes
Bronze: Priscilla Cedro Rodrigues
FEMALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / HEAVY (79.30KG)
Gold: Simone de Abreu Pinheiro
Silver: Maisa Gurgel Sales dos Santos
FEMALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / SUPER-HEAVY
Gold: Mayara Monteiro Custódio
Silver: Jessica Lauren Ochab
Bronze: Lama Hatem S. Qubbaj
Bronze: Liliane Ferreira Diniz Martins
FEMALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / OPEN CLASS
Gold: Mayara Monteiro Custódio
Silver: Márcia Karina Figueiredo Ramos
Bronze: Bruna Driely Ricalde Maciel
Bronze: Maisa Gurgel Sales dos Santos
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