Emilie Maxine M. H. Thylin was born on 5 June 1991, in Sweden, when she was 10 years old she started training and competing in Japanese jujutsu, at sixteen she added Brazilian jiu-jitsu to her practice.[1] At 18 years she won the junior Japanese jujutsu world championship and decided to focus on Brazilian jiu-jitsu, training at Nacka dojo in Stockholm.[2] From 2010 she began travelling to California to train with Leticia Ribeiro a few months at time, then in 2015 moved from Sweden to San Diego joining Gracie Southbay Jiu-Jitsu. Thylin won medals in all the major tournaments, as a brown belt she won the 2015 World Championship[3][4] receiving her black belt from Ribeiro that year as a consequence, followed by a win at the SJJIF World Championship. In 2017 she won the world championship as a black belt, while studying psychology, she is the second swede to win the world championship after Janni Larsson.[2]
