Lachlan Giles

Lachlan Giles was born on June 17, 1986, in Victoria, Australia.[1][2]

Growing up he was a huge fan of Jet Li's martial arts movies and trained in Kung Fu initially.[1][2][3] One year into his training he saw a tape of UFC 1 which was won by Royce Gracie.[1][2][4] After watching the event, he was convinced that BJJ was the best form of self defense and shortly afterwards joined a BJJ academy to focus on it.[1][2][4]

Giles’ first BJJ instructor was Tyrone Crosse who trained Giles from white to purple belt.[1][2][3] However Giles suffered from a severe knee injury and was forced to stop his training for a year.[1][2][3] When he returned, the academy had a new coach, John Simon.[1][2] Simon promoted Giles to brown belt and in 2012 promoted him to black belt.[1][2][3]

Giles attended La Trobe University where he earned a Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 2008 and a PhD in Physiotherapy in 2016.[1][3][4][5]

In 2015, Giles competing at Eddie Bravo Invitational 5 where he came third place after defeating Nathan Orchard and Rani Yahya before losing to Garry Tonon by Armbar.[1][4][6]

In 2017, Giles competed at the World IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship where he came third place after being defeated by AJ Agazarm by points in the semi-finals.[1][7]

In the 2019 ADCC World Championship, Giles defeated Kaynan Duarte and Patrick Gaudio before being submitted by Gordon Ryan.[1][8][9] Giles defeated Mahamed Aly by leglock to earn a Bronze medal in the absolute category.[1][8][9] Giles' achievement was considered notable as he was much smaller than his opponents who came mainly from the Heavyweight divisions and outweighed him by around 20 kg.[1][8][9]

In 2020, Giles made a post on Instagram stating those who have won medals while using PEDs should relinquish those titles.[10] Gordon Ryan made a response accusing Giles of using PEDs.[10] After some back and forth, Giles challenged Ryan that he would bet $500,000 of his own money against just $5,000 of Ryan's that he would pass a drug test right now.[10] Ryan did not respond to the challenge.[10]

Giles teaches BJJ as well.[1] He was the coach of fellow Australian grappler, Craig Jones who he awarded a black belt in 2016.[1][4]

• 3rd place ADCC World Championship (2019)[1]
• 3rd place World IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship (2019)[1]
• 3rd place Eddie Bravo Invitational 5 (2015)[1]
• 2nd place UAEJJF Grand Slam Abu Dhabi (2018)[1]

Carlos Gracie → Helio Gracie → Carlos Gracie Jr → Jean Jacques Machado / Rigan Machado → John Will → John Simon → Lachlan Giles[1]