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Born | [1] | 5 June 1991||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Machine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Swedish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Style | Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | Gracie Humaitá | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trainer | Leticia Ribeiro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maxine Thylin (born 5 June 1991) 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. [1]
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. [1] 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. [2] 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 [3] [4] 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. [2]
Main Achievements at black belt level: [1]
Main Achievements (Coloured Belts): [1]
Carlos Gracie > Helio Gracie > Royler Gracie > Vini Aieta > Letícia Ribeiro > Maxine Thylin [1]