Lucas Dos Santos Pinheiro

Lucas Dos Santos Pinheiro, known as Lucas Pinheiro, born on 11 February 1994, is a black belt Brazilian jiu-jitsu athlete who competes professionally for the Atos Jiu Jitsu Team in the United States and a 2023 World Jiu-Jitsu Champion. He is a first-degree black belt under André Galvão in San Diego, California, and a former student of Faustino Neto, known as Mestre Pina, and Cícero Costha. He has earned important medals at the Brazilian National Jiu-Jitsu Championship and the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship and is regarded as one of the top competitors in the rooster and light-featherweight divisions. In 2019 the IBJJF ranked him number nine over all weights in the no-gi category, he won his first IBJJF No Gi World Championship in 2022 and his first IBJJF World Championship in 2023, and at the end of 2023 he announced that he would become a coach alongside Ronaldo Jacare Souza at Jacare Martial Arts.