The BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony will take place in Salford on Sunday, 13 December.
Audiences Cast Votes for Five Trophies as BBC Hosts Live Broadcast
Global audiences can cast votes starting Tuesday, 10 November. Five of the nine trophies will be decided by public votes.
Clare Balding, Gabby Logan, and Alex Scott will host the live broadcast on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, and the BBC Sport website and app beginning at 17:45 GMT.
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This year introduces two football categories: Men’s Footballer of the Year and BBC World Service Women’s Footballer of the Year. The latter moves to the main ceremony after existing as a World Service award since 2015.
Independent panels determine winners for the Young Sports Personality of the Year and Coach of the Year, while separate panels of football experts curate the shortlists for the Men’s and Women’s Footballer of the Year categories.
What I love about BBC Sports Personality of the Year is that it brings together all those moments that stopped us in our tracks. The goals, the medals, the upsets, the records, the stories that had us talking at work, in the pub and around the dinner table.
Alex Kay-Jelski, director of BBC Sport
Amy Hunt Leads Bookmakers' Favourites Among Athletic Contenders
The accolades arrive on the heels of an athletic schedule highlighted by record-setting performances at the European Athletics Championships, England’s finest men’s Fifa World Cup performance since 1966, and a Winter Olympics that smashed previous benchmarks.
Sky Bet market odds list Amy Hunt as the frontrunner after she became the first athlete to win four golds at a single European Championships. Other contenders include golfer Rory McIlroy following his second straight Masters title, and Josh Kerr after breaking Hicham El Guerrouj’s mile world record.
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Additional contenders include Matt Weston at 10/1 following his performance at the Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina where he dominated the men’s skeleton for Team GB’s first gold and claimed mixed team gold with Tabitha Stoecker. Jude Bellingham sits at 12/1 after scoring seven goals at the World Cup—the most by an England men’s player at a major tournament—while defending champion Rory McIlroy is listed at 14/1.
Keely Hodgkinson stands at 20/1 after breaking the indoor 800m world record, winning World Indoor gold, and taking European silver in Birmingham. Anthony Joshua at 28/1 and Tyson Fury at 40/1 round out the boxing outsiders, with Joshua on course to meet Fury in Cardiff in December following victories that included Joshua knocking out Kristian Prenga in Jeddah, and Fury outpointing Arslanbek Makhmudov and stopping Mariusz Wach.
Freddie Hunt Reflects on His Father's F1 Legacy
Fifty years is an awfully long time ago, it’s amazing how the sport has evolved since then,
Freddie
Freddie added, Dad said he wished they could have shared the championship. They both deserved to win it,
while reflecting on his father’s personality and legacy that continues to influence F1 and sports in general half a century later.