Maxine Thylin
Maxine Thylin is a Swedish grappler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt competitor. Thylin is a multiple Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion in coloured belt and the 2017 black belt World Champion.
Career
Emilie Maxine M. H. Thylin was born on 5 June 1991, in Sweden, when she was 10 years old she started training and competing in Japanese jujutsu, at sixteen she added Brazilian jiu-jitsu to her practice. At 18 years she won the junior Japanese jujutsu world championship and decided to focus on Brazilian jiu-jitsu, training at Nacka dojo in Stockholm. From 2010 she began travelling to California to train with Leticia Ribeiro a few months at time, then in 2015 moved from Sweden to San Diego joining Gracie Southbay Jiu-Jitsu. Thylin won medals in all the major tournaments, as a brown belt she won the 2015 World Championship receiving her black belt from Ribeiro that year as a consequence, followed by a win at the SJJIF World Championship. In 2017 she won the world championship as a black belt, while studying psychology, she is the second swede to win the world championship after Janni Larsson.Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competitive summary
Main Achievements at black belt level:- IBJJF World Champion
- 2 x UAEJJF Grand Slam winner, Los Angeles
- 2nd place IBJJF Pan Championship
- 2nd place IBJJF European Open
- 3rd place IBJJF No-Gi World Championship
- 3rd place IBJJF European Open
- 3rd place IBJJF Pan Championship
- IBJJF World Champion
- IBJJF World Champion NoGi
- 2 x Pan American Champion
- European Champion
- 2nd place IBJJF World Championship
- 2nd place Pan American Championship
- 2nd place IBJJF European Open
- 3rd place IBJJF World Championship
- 3rd place IBJJF Pan Championship
- 3rd place IBJJF European Open
Instructor lineage