The 2024 IBJJF European Championships are kicking off, and while most attention is going to the black belts on Friday and Saturday, there will be a ton of amazing action in the purple belt divisions.

We have compiled this list of some of the best purple belts to keep an eye on at Worlds, and which mats they will start out on (all times local - GMT).

Men's Divisions

Rooster - Tuesday

• Vitor Crizel Almeida, Mat 10, 9:39am
• Tri Thien Quang, Mat 9, 9:39am
• Washington Ferreira dos Santos, Mat 10, 9:57am
• Raimundo Italo Pereira de Almeida, Mat 10, 9:30am

Light-Feather - Tuesday

• Devin Patrick Riley, Mat 10:51am
• Quinton Isaiah Dixon, Mat 10, 10:06am

Feather - Tuesday

• Leonardo Ferreira dos Santos, Mat 6, 11:45am

• Steven Alexander Gomez, Mat 8, 11:36am

• Jonah Aaron Gratt, Mat 5, 11:45am

Light - Tuesday

• Caua Levi dos Santos Santana, Mat 7, 9:30am
• Rian de Oliveira dos Santos, Mat 2, 9:30am

Middle - Tuesday

• Malik Abdouraguimov, Mat 1, 10:51am
• Jose Steve Nduazulu Ndilu, Mat 1, 11:45am
• Dione Munis dos Santos, Mat 1, 11:45am
• Karl Vilmer Sydney Schönbeck, Mat 4, 11:09am

Medium-Heavy - Tuesday

• Caleb Eli Nascimento, Mat 2, 12:39pm
• Enzo Marasciulo, Mat 4, 1:06pm

• Marc Balasescu, Mat 4, 12:57pm

Heavy - Tuesday

• Matheus Paulo da Costa, Mat 8, 12:48pm
• Bradley James Walton, Mat 8, 1:24pm
• Henrique Soares, Mat 7, 1:42pm

Super-Heavy - Tuesday

• Jose Victor Torres de Oliveira Rossi, Mat 9, 1:50pm
• Jonathas Matheus Miranda Freitas, Mat 10, 12:30pm
• Patrick Rowan, Mat 9, 12:48pm

Ultra-Heavy - Tuesday

• Pedro Pablo Gonzalez Navarro - Mat 5, 12:57pm
• Kristiyan Krasimirov Krastev - Mat 5, 12:39pm

Women's Divisions

Light-Feather - Tuesday

• Mia Funegra, Mat 5, 4:38pm
• Ashlee Funegra, Mat 6, 4:48pm

Feather - Tuesday

• Sabrina Moreno Lourenco - Mat 4, 5:08pm
• Marina Lunia Brito Cantarelli - Mat 4, 5:08pm

Light - Tuesday

• Sarah Galvao - Mat 2, 5:07pm

Middle - Tuesday

• Julianna Wong - Mat 7, 4:48pm
• Luandra Barbosa Soares - Mat 8, 4:50pm

• Eliza Carvalho Nascimento - Mat 7, 4:57pm

• Jade Sway Reber - Mat 8, 4:41pm

• Thainara Aparecida F. da Silveira

Medium-Heavy

• Lillian Jane Marchand
• Giselle Cordeiro Pereira da Costa

Heavy - Wednesday

• Mairead Rowland-Coman - Mat 8, 5:29pm