Tayane Porfírio

Tayane Porfírio de Araújo, born on 11 December 1994 in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil, is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu four-time world championship black belt champion. In 2017 she completed the IBJJF Grand Slam by winning her weight category and the absolute category at all four major gi championships: the World Championship, the European Open, the Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championship and the Brazilian Nationals. She began training in 2010 at Mestre Márcio Rodrigues' academy, moved in 2014 to Alliance Jiu Jitsu in Rio de Janeiro under Mestre Alexandre Paiva, won the 2018 European Open and the 2018 Brazilian Nationals in both her category and the absolute, won both again at the 2018 World Championships and ended 2018 as the number one black belt woman in the IBJJF rankings. She won bronze at the 2019 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship and joined Gracie Barra in the UK. In May 2019 she received a four-year competition ban from USADA after testing positive for nandrolone in a sample taken at the 2018 IBJJF World Jiu-Jitsu Championship.