Thomas Halpin, known as Tom Halpin, is an Irish submission grappler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, born in Limerick in 1993. He began Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 2011 under Fergal Quinlan while studying sports and exercise science, then trained from 2014 in Miami under Roberto Abreu, from whom he received his black belt in 2017. After winning the ADCC European Trials in 2019 he became the first Irishman to qualify and compete at the ADCC World Championship. In 2020 he won the featherweight Combat Jiu-Jitsu World Championship, submitting every opponent, and he went on to compete for Polaris Pro Grappling, where he beat Dino Bucalet and Alessio Sacchetti and lost to Keith Krikorian in 2023.
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Thomas Halpin was born on 9 November 1993 in Limerick, Ireland
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