Pessanha creates new BJJ milestone, Jaworski and Mayordomo continue runs at 2025 IBJJF No Gi Euros

Decorated Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) world champ Gabi Pessanha made history at the 2025 IBJJF No Gi European Championships, while established champions like Mayssa Bastos and European rising stars Pawel Jaworski and Ana Mayordomo continued their impressive runs.

Pessanha, a 10-time world champion who once had a legendary streak of 166 straight wins, made history after winning double gold at the 2025 IBJJF Euros. With those two medals, she has now become the first ever grappler — male or female — to win a Double No Gi Grand Slam. The unique accomplishment came as Pessanha has now won double gold at every major no gi event at IBJJF’s calendar.

The feat is even more impressive, considering she accomplished that on her very first year of competing in no gi.

Poland’s Pawel Jaworski and Spain’s Ana Mayordomo have both been on a tear in these last two months.

At the 2025 IBJJF Euros, Mayordomo won gold at featherweight, while Jaworski won at middle-heavyweight (188.5 lbs) then beat bigger men at the absolute division to take double gold.

After adding another major title to their resumes, Jaworski and Mayordomo have both now won gold medals at the ADCC EMEA Trials, the IBJJF No Gi Pans and the IBJJF No Gi Euros in less than two months. In Mayordomo’s case, she also won Submission of the Night at UFC BJJ 3 within that time frame.

At just 21 and 25 years old and still rapidly improving, we could be seeing a lot more from Jaworski and Mayordomo on even bigger stages soon.

10-time IBJJF world champion Mayssa Bastos also continued to add to her Hall of Fame resume in the event, after winning gold at light featherweight. Bastos dominated and scored a whopping 34 points win at IBJJF No Gi Pans last month, making for a great year that also saw her win her sixth world title in the gi.

Other established professional grapplers also shined on the IBJJF No Gi Euros, with reigning IBJJF Crown champion Brianna Ste-Marie taking gold at women’s lightweight, and Julian Espinosa winning the pretty deep men’s lightweight division.

2025 IBJJF No Gi European Championship full results

Men’s Black Belt

ROOSTERWEIGHT (55.50KG)

Gold: Shay Ananda Montague

Silver: Riki Yoshinaga

Bronze: Denis Gerrit Lee Beenen

Bronze: Weslei Kellisson Silva Costa

LIGHT-FEATHERWEIGHT (61.50KG)

Gold: Vinicius Gomes Inacio

Silver: Edwin Ocasio

Bronze: Daniël de Groot

Bronze: Lucas Feitosa Pereira Bosshard

FEATHERWEIGHT (67.50KG)

Gold: Ashley Jordan Williams

Silver: Noah Isiah Gutierrez

Bronze: Alessio Sacchetti

Bronze: Kamil Lukasz Wilk

LIGHTWEIGHT (73.50KG)

Gold: José Julián Espinosa Flores

Silver: Yigit Hanay

Bronze: Gian Paul Grippo

Bronze: Yonathan Ernesto Cárdenas Macias

MIDDLEWEIGHT (79.50KG)

Gold: Tarik Hopstock

Silver: Kieran Robert Kichuk

Bronze: Omer Emanoely 

Bronze: Thomas Rees Benjamin Barry

MEDIUM-HEAVYWEIGHT (85.50KG)

Gold: Pawel Kacper Jaworski

Silver: Shane L. Fishman

Bronze: Andre Ygor Pereira de Brito

Bronze: Vilhjálmur Ingi Arnarsson

HEAVYWEIGHT (91.50KG)

Gold: Faris Dean Benlamkadem

Silver: Karol Zbigniew Kania

Bronze: Lucas Dias da Silva

Bronze: Matheus Vetoraci de Menezes

SUPER-HEAVYWEIGHT (97.50KG)

Gold: Jorge Gabriel Pereira da Silva

Silver: Neocicero Barbosa

Bronze: Adam Nabawy

Bronze: Moritz Koellensperger

ULTRA-HEAVYWEIGHT

Gold: Tito Jonathan carle 

Silver: Alexander Sak

Bronze: Mikael Eric Peter Dennis Hoffman

Bronze: Vinicius dos Santos Izidoro

OPEN CLASS

Gold: Pawel Kacper Jaworski

Silver: Jean Luca Maltese

Bronze: Clay Landon Mayfield

Bronze: Heikki Lauri Eemil Jussila

Women’s Black Belt

ROOSTERWEIGHT (46.50KG)

Gold: Thaís Loureiro Felipe

Silver: Mariana Cabral Rolszt

LIGHT-FEATHERWEIGHT (51.50KG)

Gold: Mayssa Caldas Pereira Bastos

Silver: Esther Rose Garwood

Bronze: Josefine Beatrice Modig

Bronze: Laura Peretti

FEATHERWEIGHT (56.50KG)

Gold: Ana Mayordomo Garcia

Silver: Liisi Vaht

Bronze: Martina Zola

Bronze: Mona Maree Bailey

LIGHTWEIGHT (61.50KG)

Gold: Brianna Ste-Marie

Silver: Amanda Dean Bruse

Bronze: Amanda Pamela Nicole Schurtz

Bronze: Maria Cláudia Almeida Silva

MIDDLEWEIGHT (66.50KG)

Gold: Injana Greta Goodman

Silver: Julia Maele

Bronze: Nadia Frankland

Bronze: Rosary Mary Walsh

MEDIUM-HEAVYWEIGHT (71.50KG)

Gold: Salla Mari Simola

Silver: Ane N. Svendsen

Bronze: Jessika Maria Torttila

Bronze: Nia Vivienne Blackman

HEAVYWEIGHT (76.50KG)

Gold: Paige Ivette Borras

Silver: Laura Louise Barker

SUPER-HEAVYWEIGHT

Gold: Gabrieli Pessanha de Souza Marinho

OPEN CLASS

Gold: Gabrieli Pessanha de Souza Marinho

Silver: Injana Greta Goodman

Bronze: Julia Maele

Bronze: Nadia Frankland

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