The last IBJJF European Open Championship (2015) broke the record for the highest number of participants ever registered in a BJJ competition with a total of 3,340 registrations according to the last listing of the IBJJF (see the IBJJF’s list of registered participants). We wanted to see how the number of competitors spreads over the different belt, weight and age categories. So we downloaded the official IBJJF list of registered participants and did a bit data crunching for you! If we combined all belt, weight, age and gender categories, there are 294 categories! Here are the results!

The highest number of competitor registered in the blue belt division with 1,158 competitors which represents 35% of all participants.



In terms of age category, the adult division is the most popular one with 1,577 participants, which represents 47% so nearly half of all the registered competitors. The next age category is Master 1 with less than half of the Adult division, and followed by Master 2 and 3.



In terms of gender, the majority was male with 2,950 competitor’s equivalent to 88% of all the registered participants. Only 12% were women.



In terms of weight category, the male division was dominated by light and middleweight categories, and in the female category, the feather, light and middleweight category where the most dominant.



In terms of the most popular categories, the Blue, Adult middle was the most popular with 93 competitors in that bracket, so if you were on the podium of that category, congratulations! This category was followed by Blue, Adult, light and Blue, Adult, feather.



In the female division, the white, adult, light and Blue, adult, light were the most popular with 29 and 28 participants in each of these categories.

