these French women to follow in 2021

Published on : 22/01/2021 – 16:32

Junior world champion in 2018, the 19-year-old Rennaise is one of the great hopes of French tennis. The one who reached the final of the last Youth Olympic Games now hopes to break into the senior ranks, if possible as early as 2021. First stage: the Australian Open (February 8-21) which she passed the qualifications.

The French basketball team 3×3

Les Bleues remain on two gold medals (2018 & 2019) in the European Cup and two bronze in the World Cup (2018 & 2019). In September, they will defend their European title at La Défense, near Paris. Laetitia Guapo, Marie-Eve Paget and Migna Touré also hope to qualify for and participate in the Tokyo Games in May.

The 30-year-old Frenchwoman has just made a resounding debut at the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC), the most prestigious mixed martial arts (MMA) league in the world, with a victory by technical knockout in the second round. No doubt, the UFC will want to fight her several times very quickly, in 2021.

After tirelessly defending her belt as the IBF super featherweight world champion since 2016, Maïva Hamadouche will finally be able to try to win a second with one of the other three major professional boxing federations (WBA, WBC, WBO). She is currently negotiating her next fight and intends to become the second Frenchwoman only, after Anne-Sophie Mathis, to achieve such a unification.

For the first time in its history, the French women’s baseball team will compete in the World Cup (March 1 to 9, 2021 in Mexico), after having already won the very first European Nations Championship in 2019. Precocity phenomenon , the French Mélissa Mayeux, 22 years old, could well be one of the players to follow during this World Cup 2021. Her team will then try to defend the title of European champion, next July in Montpellier.

Jessy Trémouliere (Rugby)

At the end of December, Jessy Trémouliere was voted best XV player of the decade. A feat when you know that the France team finished third in the 2014 Worlds and that the back had to forfeit a 2017 edition where the Blue also won bronze. The one who also won the 2014 and 2018 Six Nations Tournaments has a major objective in 2021: that the French women’s XV play the first World Cup final in its history, on the occasion of the 2021 World Cup (18 September-16 October, New Zealand).

Magda Wiet-Hénin (Taekwondo)

European Champion 2020 in the under 67 kg in December, the Frenchwoman can attack 2021 full of ambition, Tokyo Games or not. Of course, there will be the European Olympic Qualifying Tournament in May and then the Olympics if she gets her place there. But there will also be the 2021 Worlds in October. World Championships where no Frenchwoman has been crowned since 2011.

Sportswomen focused on the Tokyo Games

It will of course also be necessary to follow renowned athletes such as Clarisse Agbegnenou (Judo), Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Cycling), Marie-Amélie Le Fur (Athletics), Mélina Robert-Michon (Athletics)… So many champions who play a large part of their season at the Olympic or Paralympic Games in Tokyo, two events whose holding remains more than ever threatened by the Covid-19 pandemic.