Sarah Galvão

Competitive career Sarah earned international recognition as a juvenile blue belt by completing the IBJJF Grand Slam in 2022 — winning gold in her weight and open categories at the European Championship, Pan Continental, World Championship, and Brazilian Nationals. She also went undefeated in the colored belt divisions and ranked number one across every belt from 2022 to 2025.

In 2023, as a purple belt, she won the Abu Dhabi World Pro Youth Championship and then the open division just days later. Stepping into brown belt competition later that year, she won both her weight and absolute divisions at the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Rio and the World Professional Championship.

At the 2025 IBJJF World Championship, Sarah captured gold in the brown belt lightweight division. Despite being upset in the absolute division by Aghata Fernandes via kneebar, she was awarded her black belt on the podium by her parents immediately afterward.

She began her black belt career with dominant performances, including all wins by submission at the 2025 IBJJF American Nationals.

Titles and accomplishments IBJJF World Champion (2025 – Brown belt lightweight) IBJJF American Nationals Champion (2025 – black belt lightweight via submission) IBJJF Asian Championship Champion (2025 – double gold, brown belt) IBJJF Grand Slam winner (2022–2025 – across colored belts) Abu Dhabi World Professional Championship (2023 – brown belt) and Youth World Pro Champion (2023 – purple belt) Abu Dhabi Grand Slam World Tour (2023 – brown belt lightweight champion)

Personal life Daughter of black belts André and Angelica Galvão, Sarah comes from a family lineage of BJJ champions.