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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