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Including Alcaraz and Phelps. Athletes who made glory before the age of 20

A number of athletes achieved many titles before their twenties (Al-Araby Al-Jadeed / Getty)

The Spaniard succeeded Carlos Alcaraz Since winning the US Open tennis championship, which made him the first in the world rankings of players tennis He is the youngest player in the history of yellow football, reaching the top of the league at nineteen.

Al-Araby Al-Jadeed monitored a group of names who made history before they reached their twenties.

Michael Phelps first appeared at the Olympic Games at the age of fifteen, in Sydney in 2000, before returning to Athens in 2004 at the age of nineteen with historic achievements, winning eight medals in the second championship of his career.

At the age of fifteen years and 330 days, the Spanish matador, Rafael Nadal, managed to obtain his first victory in the professional world, a record that later supported him by obtaining the “Roland Garros”, at the age of nineteen and only two days.

In turn, former tennis player, Martina Hingis, did it at the age of sixteen by winning the Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, noting that a few months ago at the time, and at the age of fifteen and nine months, she was in able to crown the Wimbledon title. “Double with Helena Sokova, she also won five singles titles, all before the age of twenty.

American swimmer Katie Lidetsky, aged 15, 4 months and 10 days, managed to win the Olympic gold medal in London in 2012, in the 800 meters race, bringing her total results to date to 19. gold medals, 3 silver medals at the world championships, 7 gold medals and three silver medals at the Olympic Games, in which he participated.

Basketball player Ricky Rubio, at the age of nineteen, was the youngest winner of the European Cup, and with Spain he won the European Championship and the World Championship, and in the course of his career he won two medals silver medal at the Olympic Games, as well as an intense NBA career in basketball.

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