ADCC 2026 Results: Every Champion From Krakow

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The 2026 ADCC World Championship ran September 12-13 at TAURON Arena Krakow, the first ADCC ever held in Poland, and crowned eight weight-class champions, an absolute champion and a superfight winner. Felipe Pena became the first grappler to win the ADCC absolute twice (2017 and 2026). Yuri Simoes beat Kaynan Duarte in the superfight, the same weekend Duarte, the 2024 double champion, lost his -99 kg final. Europe had its strongest ADCC on record: Pawel Jaworski became Poland's first ADCC champion and, with Russia's Magomed Dzharbaev, ended a 23-year wait for a European men's champion. Helena Crevar, 19, became the youngest woman ever to win ADCC gold. And a Day 1 brawl ended in disqualifications and one-year bans. ADCC has since added a rule on interference from coaches and spectators (FloGrappling results, BJJ Heroes).

For who made the field and how, see our ADCC 2026 qualified athletes tracker. For the venue and the event itself, see the Krakow championship guide.

ADCC 2026 champions

Every bracket, plus the superfight. The method and time are for the final (FloGrappling, BJJ Heroes):

Division	Champion	Silver	Bronze	How the final ended
Men's -66 kg	Kennedy Maciel (Brazil, Alliance)	Gavin Corbe	Diego "Pato" Oliveira	Triangle armlock, 28:41 (overtime)
Men's -77 kg	Magomed Dzharbaev (Russia, Agate Team)	PJ Barch	Mateusz Szczecinski	Referee decision
Men's -88 kg	Pawel Jaworski (Poland, A. Gorila)	Marlon Tajik	Jozef Chen	Penalties after a 0-0 final
Men's -99 kg	Luke Griffith (South Africa, Kingsway)	Kaynan Duarte	Daniel Schuardt	Rear-naked choke, 14:47
Men's +99 kg	Victor Hugo (Brazil, 6 Blades)	Josh Saunders	Mark MacQueen	Shoulder lock, 8:49
Women's -55 kg	Jasmine Rocha (USA, VRMA)	Ana Rodrigues	Ana Mayordomo	Rear-naked choke, 25:09 (overtime)
Women's -65 kg	Ana Carolina Vieira (Brazil, Aviv BJJ)	Sarah Galvao	Joslyn Molina	Rear-naked choke, 32:29 (second overtime)
Women's +65 kg	Helena Crevar (USA, Kingsway)	Anabel Lopez	Paige Ivette Clymer	Short choke, 6:04
Absolute	Felipe Pena (Brazil, FP Team)	Roosevelt Sousa	Ruslan Abdulaev	Rear-naked choke, 10:03
Superfight	Yuri Simoes	Kaynan Duarte	—	Submission (shoulder injury), 22:26 (overtime)

Some results pages label the lightest women's division 60 kg. ADCC's official competitor list and FloGrappling's brackets both list it as -55 kg. Finals at ADCC last 20 minutes (10 without points, 10 with), plus up to two 10-minute overtimes, so any finishing time past 20:00 came in overtime (ADCC rules explained). The absolute and the superfight were men's only. No women's absolute or superfight was held.

How every final was won

Men's -66 kg: Kennedy Maciel

Seeded 13th of 16, Maciel beat 4th seed Kamil Wilk 10-0, then edged 5th seed Fabricio Andrey and top seed Diego "Pato" Oliveira on referee decisions. In the final he met Gavin Corbe, a late replacement who entered on 11 days' notice (Boxing News) and inside-heel-hooked Ryoma Anraku and Dominic Mejia on his way to silver. The final went to overtime before Maciel finished a triangle armlock at 28:41. He is the son of Rubens "Cobrinha" Charles Maciel, who won the same title before him. According to BJJ Heroes, Kennedy is the first son of an ADCC champion to win it. Pato took bronze by forfeit.

Men's -77 kg: Magomed Dzharbaev

BJJ Heroes noted that few people outside Russia knew the 32-year-old before this tournament. Seeded 8th, Dzharbaev won all four matches without a submission: 3-0 over Alexandre De Jesus, a referee decision over top seed Vagner Rocha, 2-0 over Mateusz Szczecinski and another referee decision over PJ Barch in the final. BJJ Heroes credits his wrestling with forcing Rocha to pull guard and keeping him clear of Szczecinski's leg attacks. Barch had reached the final with 8-0 and 9-0 wins over Tommy Langaker and Jacob Bornemann, and Szczecinski beat Bornemann for bronze.

Men's -88 kg: Pawel Jaworski

The local standout was only the 9th seed. Jaworski submitted Roberto Frias, then caught top seed Felipe Costa (3:55) and Gabriel Brod (5:34) with inside heel hooks. In the final, he and Sweden's Marlon Tajik finished 0-0 on points, and penalties decided it for Jaworski. Like Victor Hugo at +99 kg, he won playing from the bottom (BJJ Heroes). Jozef Chen took bronze 13-0 over Brod.

Men's -99 kg: Luke Griffith

The South African third seed submitted Marcin Maciulewicz in 1:47, then beat Steffen Banta and Achilles Rocha in two scoreless matches decided on penalties. In the final against top seed and defending champion Kaynan Duarte, Griffith trailed for most of the match, Boxing News reports. Then he sprawled on a late Duarte takedown attempt, took the back and finished a rear-naked choke at 14:47. Daniel Schuardt won bronze with a kneebar on Rocha.

Men's +99 kg: Victor Hugo

The 7th seed submitted all four opponents, every time from the bottom (BJJ Heroes). He finished Heikki Jussila, put a "thunder lock" on 15th seed Ruslan Abdulaev, kneebarred Mark MacQueen in 2:29 and won the final against Josh Saunders with a shoulder lock at 8:49. Saunders had reached the final with referee-decision wins over Roosevelt Sousa and top seed Felipe Pena. MacQueen took bronze when Pena did not compete for third.

Women's -55 kg: Jasmine Rocha

The top seed submitted all three opponents. She choked Kanae Ikeda, armbarred Ana Mayordomo and, in a final that went to overtime, finished 7th seed Ana Rodrigues with a rear-naked choke at 25:09. Rodrigues had upset 2nd seed Janette Gloger on a referee decision and Mayssa Bastos 2-0. Mayordomo took bronze with a guillotine on Bastos.

Women's -65 kg: Ana Carolina Vieira

The defending champion and top seed beat Nadia Frankland 2-0 and Mo Black 5-2. Her opponent in the final, Sarah Galvao, had submitted Livia Barasine with a triangle and beaten 14-year-old Joslyn Molina 3-0 in the semifinal. Their final went into a second overtime before Vieira finished a rear-naked choke at 32:29. She was the only 2024 champion to keep her title in Krakow. Molina beat Black 6-0 for bronze.

Women's +65 kg: Helena Crevar

The 19-year-old top seed needed 20 minutes and 34 seconds of total mat time for three submissions. She finished Matilda Reid with a rear-naked choke, Elizabeth Mitrovic with a straight ankle lock and Spain's Anabel Lopez with a short choke at 6:04 in the final. Lopez had beaten Gabrieli Pessanha on a referee decision. Pessanha, the 2026 IBJJF gi world champion at super-heavy and in the open class, had stepped in when defending champion Rafaela Guedes withdrew in late August. Paige Ivette Clymer took bronze with a 1:52 armbar on Mitrovic.

The superfight: Simoes over Duarte

The superfight title was vacant after Gordon Ryan retired from competition in February 2026. Kaynan Duarte earned the shot by winning the 2024 absolute. In May, ADCC confirmed his opponent: Yuri Simoes, the 2022 absolute champion, who had challenged for the superfight title in 2024 (BJJEE). The two had met before, at ADCC 2019, when Duarte won 3-0.

This one was slow. Boxing News describes more than 20 minutes of inactivity that drew heavy boos. The first real scramble came in overtime, and Duarte injured his shoulder in it and tapped. FloGrappling records it as a submission win for Simoes at 22:26 and notes that Duarte appeared to injure his shoulder in overtime. MMA Sucka counts it as Simoes' fourth ADCC title. Duarte came to Krakow as the 2024 -99 kg and absolute champion. He left with a silver medal, a superfight loss and an injured shoulder.

The absolute: Pena makes history

Felipe Pena's path to the record began with a loss. He lost his +99 kg semifinal to Josh Saunders on a referee decision and did not compete for bronze. Accounts differ on why. MMA Sucka says he was only interested in gold. BJJ Heroes reports a bad foot injury and says his brother talked him into entering the absolute anyway.

As the absolute's top seed, Pena then won four in a row. He submitted Francis Pana at 14:11, beat Eoghan O'Flanagan 3-0 and smothered Ruslan Abdulaev at 13:15. In the final he finished Roosevelt Sousa with a rear-naked choke at 10:03. Sousa, the 7th seed, had submitted all three of his opponents on the way: Tommy Langaker, Felipe Costa with a calf slicer in 2:14, and Marlon Tajik, the -88 kg runner-up, with a smother in 4:57. Abdulaev took bronze 6-0 over Tajik.

Pena's first absolute title came in 2017. With this one he became the first person in ADCC history to win the absolute twice (FloGrappling, BJJ Heroes, MMA Sucka).

The storylines

Pena's record and Duarte's double loss are covered above. Here is the rest.

Europe's breakthrough, and Poland's first champion

Jaworski and Dzharbaev "ended Europe's 23-year drought of male ADCC champions," as Boxing News put it. BJJ Heroes counts only three European ADCC champions before them: Karimula Barkalaev (1999), Jon Olav Einemo (2003) and Ffion Davies (2022). None of them was Polish, so Jaworski is Poland's first ADCC champion, and he won it at the first ADCC held in Poland. Europe has hosted before, in Barcelona (2009), Nottingham (2011) and Espoo (2017). Europe's eight medals, two of them gold, are its best haul ever (BJJ Heroes).

The youngest champion and the youngest medalist

Crevar, 19, is the youngest female champion in ADCC history (BJJ Heroes). In 2024 she had already become the first woman to win an ADCC Worlds match with a heel hook. And with her bronze at -65 kg, 14-year-old Joslyn Molina became the youngest ADCC medalist ever (Boxing News, BJJ Heroes).

Kingsway: two golds and a bronze

Crevar, Molina and Griffith all train at Kingsway, which gave the team two of the eight weight-class golds plus a bronze (BJJ Heroes). Gordon Ryan, retired from competition since February, was in Krakow coaching with the team.

The Day 1 brawl

In the -66 kg round of 16 on Saturday, Kazakhstan's Bekzat Kapashov bit the finger of Kingsway's Dorian Olivarez while Olivarez held mount, and Olivarez answered with a slap. The referee stopped the match, then restarted it, and Olivarez advanced. FloGrappling's bracket records the result as a win by disqualification. As Olivarez left the mat, a group of Kapashov's supporters confronted him and a scuffle broke out (BJJ Heroes). Ryan later acknowledged throwing punches in the melee (EssentiallySports).

ADCC disqualified Olivarez from the tournament. According to BJJ Heroes, many fans had seen him as the favorite for gold. Both Olivarez and Kapashov received one-year bans (MMA Mania), and no sanction against Ryan has been reported. Owen Jones, who had lost to Ryoma Anraku in the round of 16, took Olivarez's quarterfinal place.

On September 30, ADCC published a new competition-area rule. Coaches, parents, spectators and other unauthorized people may not enter the competition area during a match. Interference can cost the associated athlete the match "regardless of whether the athlete participated in or encouraged the conduct," the rule reads. Offenders can also be removed from the venue and suspended or barred from future ADCC events (BJJEE).

Two champions from the bottom, and Victor Hugo's farewell

BJJ Heroes notes that most of the action in Krakow happened standing or from top position, continuing a trend it traces through every previous edition. Hugo and Jaworski were the exceptions, winning from guard. After his final, Hugo said he was retiring from ADCC. He had chased this gold for more than a decade (BJJ Heroes).

By the numbers

• 16th edition of the ADCC World Championship, with 104 athletes in five men's brackets of 16 and three women's brackets of 8.
• 50 of 103 matches outside the absolute ended in a submission, a 48.5% finish rate (BJJ Heroes).
• 19 chokes from back control, 6 straight ankle locks and 6 triangles were the most common submissions (BJJ Heroes).
• 7 of 9 finals ended by submission, 4 of them by rear-naked choke. The -77 kg final went to a referee decision. The -88 kg final was decided on penalties.
• 3 of the submission finishes in the finals came in overtime, and so did the superfight's.
• 0 men's weight-class champions were top seeds (Maciel was 13th, Jaworski 9th, Dzharbaev 8th, Hugo 7th, Griffith 3rd). All three women's champions were.
• 1 returning 2024 champion kept her title: Ana Carolina Vieira.
• Medals by continent: South America 9, Europe 8, North America 6, Oceania 2, Africa 2 (BJJ Heroes).
• Golds by country, across the nine brackets: Brazil 4, USA 2, Poland 1, Russia 1, South Africa 1.

Prize money, as published

ADCC's published prize schedule totals $362,000 (FloGrappling):

Placement	Men's divisions	Women's divisions	Absolute
1st	$20,000	$10,000	$50,000
2nd	$10,000	$5,000	$10,000
3rd	$3,000	$2,000	$5,000
4th	$1,000	$1,000	$1,000

The superfight paid $50,000 to the winner and $10,000 to the loser. Bonuses were $3,000 each for Best Fighter, Best Takedown and Fastest Submission, and $1,500 to each athlete in the Best Fight. This is the schedule ADCC published before the event. We haven't seen post-event reporting of what was paid out, so we don't attach amounts to individual athletes. Women's champions were listed at half the men's first prize. Our ADCC purse and athlete-pay piece has the background.

What Krakow means for your own no-gi training

You don't need an ADCC invite to learn from Krakow. Five lessons from the results:

1. Defend the back first. Nineteen of the 50 submissions were chokes from back control, and four of the nine finals ended with a rear-naked choke. Griffith's title came from a sprawl straight into a back take. Hand-fighting and back escapes deserve regular time, and so does taking the back from scrambles.
2. Respect the legs. Straight ankle locks tied for the second most common finish, and inside heel hooks carried Jaworski and Corbe deep into their brackets. If your gym trains no-gi leg locks, learn the defense early. Our heel hook defense guide and leg lock overview are a good start.
3. A bottom game works, if you get there legally. Hugo and Jaworski won from guard. But ADCC docks a point for pulling guard in the second half of regulation, in overtime and for the whole of a final. Practise reaching your guard off a scramble or a stalled takedown, and know the guard-pull rule of whatever ruleset you compete under (ADCC rules explained).
4. Initiate. The -77 kg final and two of Maciel's wins went to referee decisions. ADCC's judging criteria name "who is the aggressor and is initiating the action" as the number one factor. In sparring, practise starting exchanges instead of waiting to counter.
5. Train for long rounds. Three finals and the superfight ran past 20 minutes, and Vieira's final lasted 32:29. If you're preparing for a no-gi event, build some longer rounds into your camp. Our conditioning guide covers the rest.

A plan like that only works if you can see whether you followed it. In Rollbook, tag every session Gi, No-Gi or Both in Quick Log and your stats show the split over time. Add the techniques you drilled from your own technique journal. Map your back-take or leg-lock game as a System, and let Time to Revisit flag the techniques you haven't drilled lately. If you want more no-gi mat time, the Rollbook gym directory lists academies by city. Rollbook is free on iOS and Android.

What's next

• ADCC 2028. The host city and dates have not yet been announced, and neither have any Trials dates for the next cycle. Our ADCC schedule will carry them once they are.
• The IBJJF no-gi season. At the IBJJF Pan No-Gi (October 2-4), Jaworski won double gold and Crevar won the female super-heavyweight division with two quick submissions. IBJJF says Jaworski is now one event away from the sport's first No-Gi Grand Slam. His chance comes at the IBJJF European No-Gi Championship in Rome (October 28-November 1), the season's last No-Gi Grand Slam event (IBJJF). The IBJJF No-Gi Worlds follow in Las Vegas on December 10-12.
• UFC BJJ. For the pro-league side of no-gi, our UFC BJJ 2026 schedule and results guide tracks every card and champion.

Want to rewatch any of this? FloGrappling has the full replays. See how to watch the ADCC 2026 replays.

Sources

• Full brackets, champions and placements — FloGrappling
• Results, submission statistics, medal tally and storylines — BJJ Heroes
• Division names — ADCC official competitor list
• Prize money and start times — FloGrappling FAQ
• Duarte's losses, Europe's drought, Corbe and Molina — Boxing News
• Pena's history and Simoes' fourth title — MMA Sucka
• Superfight background — BJJEE
• Suspensions — MMA Mania; Gordon Ryan's statement — EssentiallySports
• New interference rule — BJJEE
• Pan No-Gi follow-up — IBJJF