These 5 athletes seek to stand out in 2019
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After a good sign in 2018, Briana Williams, Dayana Yastremska, Selma Bacha, Charles Leclerc, and Aphiwe Dyantyi are called to be the stars of this year
A Jamaican athlete, a Ukrainian tennis player, two French players: a footballer and a motor racing driver, and a South African rugby player, today unknown but talented and very young, could make the big leap to the elite in this nascent 2019, after demonstrating their capacities in 2018.
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Therefore, in LatinAmerican Post we review a bit about the career of these five athletes namely, Briana Williams, Dayana Yastremska, Selma Bacha, Charles Leclerc, and Aphiwe Dyantyi, having as starting point an extensive research work done by the BBC World.
Usain Bolt, female version
According to the prestigious British media, Briana Williams, just 16 years old, could become the next star of the tracks and to do so, she should make the most of her chance at the World Athletics Championships to be held this year in Doha, Qatar.
Williams also comes from Jamaica, a traditionally powerful land in this specialty and from which the most predominant athlete of recent times originates: Usain Bolt. Briana, in fact, combines strength with power and her personality is as charismatic as Bolt's.
Radio Formula reported that Williams was a double gold medalist at the U20 World Championships in Athletics, and in that world championship, held in Tampere (Finland), in July of last year, the Caribbean won the 100 meters with time of 11 seconds and 16 hundredths, and 200 with 22.50 (world record).
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High carats racket
For BBC, Dayana Yastremska introduced her name among the top 100 players of 2018. She was the first woman born in this century to break into the ranking of the 100 best rackets in the world according to the WTA.
That was in July. Shortly after, Yastremska was credited in October with her first professional championship at the Hong Kong Open with only 18 years, and with partial 6-2 and 6-1 on Wang Qiang from China. Ukrinform remembers that moment and clarifies that Dayana at the moment of victory was 18 years, 4 months and 29 days, surpassing another Ukrainian, Elina Svitolina, who achieved her first title with 18 years and 10 months.
Already in 2016, she had played the final of the Wimbledon junior women's tournament. For many, the great announcement of Yastremska was at the Luxembourg Open, in which faced and defeated the former number 1 in the world, the Venezuelan Venezuelan Garbiñe Muguruza, with partial 6-2 and 6-3.
From the land of the world champions
The Women's Soccer World Cup, which will be played this year in France, will be one of the most important sporting events of the year, and precisely of the host team, highlights the name of Selma Bacha, whom many consider a prodigy of women's football, highlights BBC World.
Although she has not played in the senior team yet, Bacha, 18, has given herself the luxury of playing all the games of the Gallic national team in the past world under20 and many consider that it is fixed in the major for the mentioned world cup of this year. In the domestic tournament, Bacha plays for Olympique Lyon, team of which is the great reference. She is a modern footballer: athletic, fast, and assisting.
In turn, the French media Footdelles.com, goes more towards the human part of Bacha, defining her in this way: "We are not talking about her talent in the field, but about the feeling that she leaves you after a first meeting. Dynamic, smiling, well educated, but above all, and that is what can surprise you most, a maturity that is not necessarily expected at her age. "
The new prodigy of the tracks
Frenchman Charles Leclerc passed the test when he drove a Ferrari as soon as the 2018 season ended. BBC World says that Leclerc is not an upstart, since he has accumulated many years being one of the most followed young talents in the discipline, and in fact in 2018 shone in two races with the Sauber.
For the British media, Leclerc has everything to be the 98th winner of some grand prix of the Formula One World Championship with that great opportunity already confirmed for 2019, remembering that since 1950, there have been 97 winners of F1 prizes.
What does Leclerc possess? An unusual ability to control the vehicle, which allows it to not crash or spin uncontrollably. That characteristic allowed him to drive a Ferrari with Sebastian Vettel.
The Clarín of Argentina intervenes in the subject, remembering that, from the Great Prize of Singapore in 2018, Leclerc – in that moment pilot of Sauber- would replace Kimi Raikkonen for the coming campaign 2019. At just 20 years old, Leclerc will be the first Monegasque in driving a Ferrari and the youngest in uniformed with the team of the 'cavallino rampanti' since 1961 when the Mexican Ricardo Rodriguez got it with only 19 years.
Did rugby see a new star born?
It was a rising star in rugby end-of-year test matches. From there, the South African Aphiwe Dyantyi, 21, aims to be one of the figures in the 2019 World Cup to be held in Japan.
New Zealand is the favorite to retain the title, but South Africa has dazzled in recent matches thanks to the brilliance and leadership of Dyantyi. He is fast, powerful, very strong and above all mentally with a lot of determination. Those are its distinctive features to date.
In turn, Cordobaxv of Argentina, reported that Dyantyi scored six tries in 13 games with the 'Springboks' (South Africa) , in his debut tournament with the national team and that he was named World Rugby Player of the Year , being at his young age the first South African to win the distinction.
LatinAmerican Post | Onofre Zambrano
Translated from "Estos 5 atletas buscan destacarse en el 2019"
