Tayane Porfírio

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Tayane Porfirio
Born (1994-12-11) 11 December 1994 (age 29)
Sobral, Ceará, Ceará, Brazil
Residence London, United Kingdom
Nationality Brazilian
Division super-heavyweight
79.3 kilograms (175 lb)
Team Gracie Barra
Alliance
Rank BJJ black belt
Occupation BJJ instructor

Tayane Porfírio de Araújo (born 11 December 1994 in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil) is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) 4x World Championship black belt champion. In 2017 Porfirio realized the IBJJF Grand Slam after winning her weight category and the absolute category at all 4 major Gi Championships: World Championship, European Open Championship, Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championship and Brazilian Nationals Championship.

Career

Tayane Porfírio de Araújo was born on 11 December 1994 in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil. She began training in 2010 at Mestre Márcio Rodrigues academy. In 2014 she moved to train with Mestre Alexandre Paiva at Alliance Jiu Jitsu in Rio de Janeiro.[1] She started 2018 winning the 2018 European Open Championship in both her weight category and the absolute category.[2] Porfirio missed the 2018 Pan Ams but came back after a slight injury to win her category and the absolute at the 2018 Brazilian Nationals.[3] Porfírio then won her category and the absolute at the 2018 World Championships.[lower-alpha 1] Porfirio ended 2018 as the number one black belt female competitor in the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation rankings.[4]

In October 2019 Porfirio won a bronze medal at the 2019 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship.[5] In 2019 Porfirio announced leaving team Alliance In Brazil, with whom she had been since blue belt, to join Gracie Barra In The UK.[6] Porfirio also competed at BJJ Bet 2 on August 1, 2021, where she defeated Gabrieli Pessanha 2-0 on points.[7]

Doping ban

In May 2019, Porfirio received a four-year competition ban from the USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency) after she tested positive for Nandrolone,[8] a prohibited substance found in samples, collected on 3 June 2018, during the 2018 IBJJF World Jiu-Jitsu Championship.[9] Porfirio’s four-year period of ineligibility began on 22 June 2018,[10] in addition, Porfirio has been disqualified from all competitive results subsequent to 30 May 2018.[11] Porfirio accepted the sanction while maintaining her innocence and the innocence of her team.[12][13]

2023

Porfirio returned to IBJJF competition for the first time since being suspended in 2018 at the London Open on February 19, 2023, where she won the absolute division after submitting all her opponents, and default gold[lower-alpha 2] in the super heavyweight division.[15]

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competitive summary

Main Achievements at black belt level:[1]

Main Achievements (Coloured Belts):[1]

Instructor lineage

Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie > Helio Gracie > Rolls Gracie > Romero Cavalcanti > Alexandre Paiva > Tayane Porfirio[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Disqualified from those results see Doping ban
  2. Single competitor in that weight class[14]
  3. 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 Weight and absolute
  4. Absolute

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