The tennis player Emma Raducanu has been voted 2021 BBC Sports Personality of the Year following her remarkable women’s singles triumph at the US Open. The 19-year-old became the first qualifier ever to win a grand slam event with a shock success at Flushing Meadows in September. That astonishing victory, when she defeated Leylah Fernandez in the final, arrived after she burst on to the scene at Wimbledon in the summer. Raducanu, whose mother is Chinese and father is Romanian, had become the youngest British player to reach the second week in SW19 before her US Open win. The diver Tom Daley, who won gold in the men’s synchronized 10m platform at Tokyo 2020, was runner-up. The swimmer Adam Peaty, who won two golds and a silver in the pool in Japan, was third. Raducanu also beat off competition from Raheem Sterling of Manchester City and England, cyclist Dame Sarah Storey and boxer Tyson Fury. Earlier in the evening, Sky Brown was confirmed as the winner of the Young Sports Personality of the Year. The 13-year-old skateboarder became Britain’s youngest Olympic medallist in Tokyo last summer when she took bronze in the women’s park event. Brown won the award ahead of England midfielder Jude Bellingham, 18, and 17-year-old Ellie Challis, who won silver in the S3 women’s 50 metres backstroke event in August, becoming the nation’s youngest Paralympian medal winner.