Read the text about four young sports stars and decide which sports star (1–4) the sentences in the table match with.
Write the number of the sports star in the box next to the sentence.
Which sports star… Number:
1 … is the oldest?
2 … is from a different country to their dad?
3 … came second in a competition in 2014?
4 … started doing their sport as a job when they were fifteen?
5 … is from North America?
6 … learns about their sport from a member of their family?
7 … plays for a club in a different country to where they were born?
1
Breanna Mackenzie Stewart was born on August 27, 1994, in New York, USA and now plays for
Seattle Storm in the Women’s NBA. She’s 1.93 m tall, weighs 77 kg, and is a strong player on the
basketball court. She won the WNBA New Player of the Year medal in 2016.
2
Martin Ødegaard from Norway was born on 17 December 1998 and plays for one of the world’s best
football clubs, Real Madrid, Spain. He started playing professionally for Strømsgodset Toppfotball
on 13 April 2014, and was their youngest ever goal scorer. He plays for the Norway national team
too.
3
Belinda Bencic, born 10 March 1997, is a Swiss tennis player. In 2013, she won the French Open
and Wimbledon girls' singles titles. Bencic’s coach is her father, who moved to Switzerland from
Czechoslovakia in 1968. In 2015, she won against the best tennis player in the world, Serena
Williams.
4
Matheus Paulo de Santana was born on April 2, 1996 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He won his first
national swimming competition in November 2011. At the Youth Olympics in August 2014, he won
a silver medal in the 50-metre race and a gold in the 100-metre one and broke the junior world
record.

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