IBJJF No Gi Worlds, Day 1-3: Live results, video highlights

Join us for the 2024 IBJJF No Gi Worlds, with the BJJ event happening from Thursday to Saturday.

The 2024 IBJJF no gi world championship will happen in the next three days, starting TODAY (Thurs., Dec. 12, 2024) up to SATURDAY (Dec. 14, 2024). The Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) institution will end their calendar year with the major event, and will have thousands of grapplers competing for their prestigious world titles.

The no gi jiu-jitsu event will stream LIVE on FloGrappling, starting at 12:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, and will continue on to Friday and Saturday. A free live stream of the earlier matches is also available and can be seen on the video embedded below.

Preview: BJJ and wrestling stars to watch at IBJJF No Gi Worlds

Black belt divisions start from Friday onto Saturday and will be featuring several world champions, but there are also some very notable professional grapplers in the colored belts as well. Full brackets for the 2024 IBJJF No Gi World Championships are available here.

At black belt, there are several returning champions and other BJJ stars, including the likes of Cole Abate, Roosevelt Sousa, and Elder Cruz, along with ADCC 2024 vets Jacob Couch and Felipe Costa. The women’s side of things will feature BJJ champs like Mayssa Bastos and Elisabeth Clay. It will also mark the long overdue no gi debut of the most dominant force in the gi today in Gabi Pessanha.

There are also notable professional grapplers and ADCC veterans in the lower belts, with the likes of Dorian Olivarez and Achilles Rocha competing at brown belt, and Helena Crevar and Michael Pixley competing at purple belt.

Blue belt will also feature two champion wrestlers. Olympic gold medalist Helen Maroulis will make her IBJJF debut, while US Open champ and CJI vet Pat Downey will take a massive step down in competition from facing the likes of Gordon Ryan and Luke Rockhold. A bunch of hobbyist beginners are likely about to get rag-dolled by these champion wrestlers, but technically IBJJF is also partly at fault for these impending mismatches.

2024 IBJJF No Gi World Championships live stream

IBJJF No Gi World Championship: Results and Video Highlights

Thousands of competitors have joined the three 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 three days.

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Blue Belt

The two wrestling champions pretty much dominated the field. Three-time Olympic medalist Helen Maroulis won gold, but Pat Downey isn’t going home with a medal after a brawl in his final match. He did still earn his purple belt after though, so he’ll at least compete against better opposition next time.

Wrestler Pat Downey wins three matches, then gets disqualified after brawl

Olympic champ Helen Maroulis wins 5 matches and gold in switch to BJJ

FEMALE / ADULT / BLUE / LIGHTWEIGHT (136 lbs.)

Gold: Helen Louise Maroulis

Silver: Seika Rebecca Van Keuren

Bronze: Samantha Carolina Ojeda, Taylor Elaine Wingstrom

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Purple Belt

ADCC silver medalist and teenage phenom Helena Crevar competed at purple belt in her final juvenile division tournament and naturally dominated her opponent.

FEMALE / JUVENILE 2 / PURPLE / SUPER-HEAVY

Gold: Helena Crevar

Silver: Mae S Isaacs

ADULT / MALE / PURPLE / SUPER-HEAVY (215.00LB)

Gold: Michael Keith Pixley

Silver: David Lewis Wright Jr

Bronze: Hyan Nicolas S. Portella, Jonas Matthias Lustbader

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Brown Belt

ADCC vet Dorian Olivarez won gold at brown belt, as did two second generation grapplers in Vagner Rocha’s son Achilles Rocha and Andre Galvao’s daughter Sarah Galvao. AOJ teenage phenoms Mia Funegra and Ashlee Funegra also closed out their division.

MALE / ADULT / BROWN / LIGHTWEIGHT (162.6 lbs.)

Gold: Dorian Michael Olivarez

Silver: Luca Martone-Martel

Bronze: Noah Rodrigues Alves, Suleyman Samet Göktopal

MALE / ADULT / BROWN / HEAVYWEIGHT (202 lbs.)

Gold: Achilles Rocha

Silver: Sebastian Bishoy Morcos Attard

Bronze: Jacob Howarth, Tommi Oiva Juhani Toikkanen

FEMALE / ADULT / BROWN / LIGHT-FEATHERWEIGHT (114 lbs)

Gold: Mia Funegra

Silver: Ashlee Funegra

Bronze: Bethanii Elsa-Lee Baron-Heeris, Izabella Frezzo

FEMALE / ADULT / BROWN / LIGHTWEIGHT (136 lbs)

Gold: Sarah C. Firme Galvao

Silver: Zara Di Tofano

Bronze: Elizabeth Nicole Genge, Natasha Nikole Druggan

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Black Belt

Among the black belt standouts were Cole Abate who won his first no gi world title at featherweight. Elder Cruz, won silver in his super heavyweight division, and won gold at the absolute division.

In the female side of things, Mayssa Bastos won her ninth IBJJF world title across gi and no gi by taking gold at 114 lbs. Elisabeth Clay, who recently won double gold at the No Gi Pans, followed up by winning a middleweight world title just three months after giving birth.

Gabrieli Pessanha, who has won double world championships in the gi during the last four years, continued her dominance in no gi. Making her no gi debut straight into the world championships, Pessanha continued her golden streak by winning double gold again.

At the Master 1 division (30 to 34 years old), BJJ legend Joao Miyao won gold to add to his long list of titles.

ADULT / MALE / BLACK / ROOSTER (122.6 lbs.)

Gold: Everton Celio de Souza Teixeira

Silver: Lucas de Souza Castro

Bronze: Christopher Duyquan Tran, Nobuhiro Sawada

ADULT / MALE / BLACK / LIGHT-FEATHER (136 lbs.)

Gold: Zachary Kaima’alili Kaina-Kokubun

Silver: Marcos Antonio Gomes Guedes

Bronze: Rodnei Barbosa Gabriel Jr., Shoya Ishiguro

ADULT / MALE / BLACK / FEATHER (149 lbs.)

Gold: Cole Anthony Abate

Silver: José Julián Espinosa Flores

Bronze: Marco Vinicius Mendes Brito, Sam Matthew Mc Nally

ADULT / MALE / BLACK / LIGHT (162.6 lbs.)

Gold: Lucas Sette C. Valente Tobias

Silver: Gianni Paul Grippo

Bronze: Carlos Henrique Costa Campos, Yigit Hanay

ADULT / MALE / BLACK / MIDDLE (175.6 lbs.)

Gold: Alexandre Joaquim de Jesus

Silver: Fabyury Khrysthyan Texeira Freitas

Bronze: Arley Pacheco Damaceno Brandão, Mateus de Moraes Coelho

ADULT / MALE / BLACK / MEDIUM-HEAVY (188.6 lbs.)

Gold: Wallisson Oliveira Souza

Silver: Francisco de Assis Lemos Lo

Bronze: Gabriel Castro Vieira Lima, Sebastian Rodriguez Williams

ADULT / MALE / BLACK / HEAVY (202 lbs.)

Gold: Cássio Felipe Sousa Costa

Silver: Faris Dean Benlamkadem

Bronze: Calon F Eskeli-sabino, Jose Jurema Nascimento de Carvalho

ADULT / MALE / BLACK / SUPER-HEAVY (215 lbs.)

Gold: Marcos Carrozzino

Silver: Elder Alexander Cruz Hernandez

Bronze: Gabriel de Oliveira Haddad Duarte, Marcin Jan Maciulewicz

ADULT / MALE / BLACK / ULTRA-HEAVY

Gold: Lucas Valentim Alves Montalvão

Silver: Anderson Kauan Gomes Marinho

Bronze: Heikki Lauri Eemil Jussila, Roosevelt Pereira Lima de Souza

ADULT / MALE / BLACK / OPEN CLASS

Gold: Elder Alexander Cruz Hernandez

Silver: Devhonte M. Johnson

Bronze: Gabriel de Oliveira Haddad Duarte, João Pedro Nicolite Rocha

ADULT / FEMALE / BLACK / ROOSTER (103 lbs.)

Gold: Jhenifer Diogenes de Aquino

Silver: Mariana Cabral Rolszt

Bronze: Amber R Rymarz-Freitas, Thaís Loureiro Felipe

ADULT / FEMALE / BLACK / LIGHT-FEATHER (114 lbs.)

Gold: Mayssa Caldas Pereira Bastos

Silver: Sophia Joan Cassella

Bronze: Jessica Mallely Crane, Thamires Diógenes de Aquino

ADULT / FEMALE / BLACK / FEATHER (125 lbs.)

Gold: Cassia Remesar

Silver: Amanda Monteiro Canuto

Bronze: Ana Mayordomo Garcia, Emily Rosalynn Nicholson

ADULT / FEMALE / BLACK / LIGHT (136 lbs.)

Gold: Brianna Ste-Marie

Silver: Morgan Leigh Black

Bronze: Amanda Dean Bruse, Jaine da Silva Fragoso

ADULT / FEMALE / BLACK / MIDDLE (147 lbs.)

Gold: Elisabeth Ann Clay

Silver: Nadia Frankland

Bronze: Gabriele da Silva Schuck, Julia Boscher Seixas Pinto

ADULT / FEMALE / BLACK / MEDIUM-HEAVY (158 lbs.)

Gold: Salla Mari Simola

Silver: Caitlin Huggins

Bronze: Kennedy Paige Franklin, Nia Vivienne Blackman

ADULT / FEMALE / BLACK / HEAVY (169 lbs.)

Gold: Anabel Lopez Beard

Silver: Paige Ivette Borras

Bronze: Elizabeth Katherine Mitrovic, Maria Vitória Gonçalves Ruffatto

ADULT / FEMALE / BLACK / SUPER-HEAVY

Gold: Gabrieli Pessanha de Souza Marinho

Silver: Mayara Moreira Ribeiro

ADULT / FEMALE / BLACK / OPEN CLASS

Gold: Gabrieli Pessanha de Souza Marinho

Silver: Brianna Ste-Marie

Bronze: Anabel Lopez Beard, Maria Vitória Gonçalves Ruffatto

MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / ROOSTER (122.6 lbs.)

Gold: Eduardo Barboza da Silva

Silver: Robiel Zerazion Tesfaldet

Bronze: Jhonatas da Conceição Moraes Ramos, Samuel Joseph Micale

MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / LIGHT-FEATHER (136 lbs.)

Gold: João Ricardo Bordignon Miyao

Silver: Quang Le Ho

Bronze: Aidan L. Collins, Samuel Alejandr Franchi

MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / FEATHER (149 lbs.)

Gold: Hiago George Santos Silva

Silver: Ermilio Lucas Ferreira Lima

Bronze: Aaron V. Brooks, Mayis Nersesyan

MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / LIGHT (162.6 lbs.)

Gold: Gabriel Marangoni de Oliveira

Silver: Lucas de Araujo Gomes

Bronze: Alexander F. Seaver, Rafael de Oliveira Colonhese

MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / MIDDLE (175.6 lbs.)

Gold: Pedro Henrique Monteiro Palhares

Silver: Jackson Nagai Hatchwell Junior

Bronze: Francisco Antonio Iturralde Lara, Rodrigo Lopes Martins

MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / MEDIUM-HEAVY (188.6 lbs.)

Gold: Fábio Angnes Alano

Silver: Romario Gomes Teodoro

Bronze: Dylan Christian Whyte, Gialysson Adão Silva Freitas

MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / HEAVY (202 lbs)

Gold: Sergio Raimundo Rios da Silva

Silver: Stephen Gabriel Martinez

Bronze: Juan Marcel Viana, Samir Abdol Kader

MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / SUPER-HEAVY (215 lbs.)

Gold: Matthew R Secor

Silver: Keli Mendiola Manglona

Bronze: Carlos Tassone Rodrigues, Elias Passos Paulino Junior

MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / ULTRA-HEAVY

Gold: Wilson Bueno de Moraes Júnior

Silver: Rafael Reis Leite

Bronze: Renato dos Santos Tagliari, Thomas Christian Clarke

MALE / MASTER 1 / BLACK / OPEN CLASS

Gold: Sergio Raimundo Rios da Silva

Silver: Stephen Gabriel Martinez

Bronze: Rodrigo Lopes Martins, Wilson Bueno de Moraes Júnior

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