2009 Women's Brown/Black Belt World Champions
| Weight Division | Champion (Gold) | Finalist (Silver) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Name | Team | |
| Absolute | Lana Stefanac | Trinity BJJ | Kyra Gracie | Gracie Barra |
| Heavyweight | Lana Stefanac | Trinity BJJ | Luciana Dias | Gracie Humaita |
| Medium Heavyweight | Penny Thomas | Gracie Humaita | Valerie Worthington | Carlson Gracie Team |
| Middleweight | Hannette Staack | Carlson Gracie Team | Monica Vanessa Silva | Sandro Bale |
| Lightweight | Luana Alzuguir | Alliance | Kyra Gracie | Gracie Barra |
| Featherweight | Bianca Barreto | Gracie Barra | Shiyoda Sayaka | AACC |
| Light Featherweight | Leticia Ribeiro | Gracie Humaita | Michelle Nicolini Drysdale | Drysdale BJJ |
Read more about this topic: World Jiu-Jitsu Championship
Famous quotes containing the words women, brown, black, belt, world and/or champions:
“The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.”
—Betty Friedan (b. 1921)
“We gave ‘em wings to fly and they rained death on us. We gave ‘em a voice to be heard around the world and they preach hatred to poison the minds of nations. Even the medicine we gave them to ease their pain is turned into a vice to enslave half mankind for the profit of a few. Ah, Janet, dear, don’t you see? Every gift that science has given them has been twisted into a thing of hate and greed.”
—Karl Brown (1897–1990)
“We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)
“The shore is composed of a belt of smooth rounded white stones like paving-stones, excepting one or two short sand beaches, and is so steep that in many places a single leap will carry you into water over your head; and were it not for its remarkable transparency, that would be the last to be seen of its bottom till it rose on the opposite side. Some think it is bottomless.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)
“While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)