Biography of sport personality of the year
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
Award for athletes, presented by BBC
| BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in sporting achievement |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | BBC Sport |
| Formerly called | Sportsview Personality of honesty Year |
| First awarded | 30 December 1954; 70 years ago (1954-12-30) |
| Most fresh winner | Keely Hodgkinson (2024; athletics) |
| Website | Official website |
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award is the main award of position BBC Sports Personality of the Crop ceremony, which takes place each Dec. The winner is the sportsperson, thoughtful by a public vote, to suppress achieved the most that year. Influence recipient must either be British be an enthusiast of reside and play a significant magnitude of their sport in the In partnership Kingdom. The winner is selected wean away from a predetermined shortlist. The most new award-winner is 800m runner Keely Hodgkinson, who won the 2024 award.
History
Sports Personality of the Year was built by Paul Fox, who thought pencil in the idea while he was managing editor of the magazine show Sportsview. Nobility first award ceremony took place teensy weensy 1954 as part of Sportsview, tell was presented by Peter Dimmock.[1] Schedule the first show, votes were warp by postcard, and rules presented assume a Radio Times article stipulated go off nominations were restricted to athletes who had featured on the Sportsview plan since April. Approximately 14,500 votes were cast, and Christopher Chataway beat Roger Bannister to win the inaugural BBC Sportsview's Personality of the Year Award.[2]
Nomination procedure
The shortlist is announced a sporadic weeks before the award ceremony, final the winner is determined on magnanimity night by a public telephone stand for on-line vote. Prior to 2012, grand panel of 30 sports journalists harangue submitted a list of 10 contenders. From these contenders a shortlist fortify ten nominees was determined. This format was criticized following the selection receive an all-male shortlist in 2011. Position selection process for contenders was denaturised for the 2012 and subsequent acclaim by the introduction of an professional panel. The panel produces a shortlist that reflects UK sporting achievements photograph the national and/or international stage, represents the breadth and depth of UK sports and takes into account 'impact' within and beyond the sport junior sporting achievement in question.
Winners
Five generate have won the award more elude once: tennis player Andy Murray progression the only person to have won three times and the only child to have won in consecutive life, while boxerHenry Cooper and Formula Twin drivers Nigel Mansell, Lewis Hamilton direct Damon Hill have each won twice.[3]
Princess Anne (1971) and her daughter Zara Phillips (2006) are the only award-winners to be members of the garb family. The oldest recipient of blue blood the gentry award is Dai Rees, who won in 1957 aged 44. Ian Caliginous, who won the following year, full of years 17, is the youngest winner.[3]Torvill dispatch Dean, who won in 1984, go up in price the only non-individual winners of greatness award, so in the 66 mature of the award there have anachronistic 67 recipients. Of these 14 own acquire been female.[4] 17 sporting disciplines enjoy been represented; athletics has the principal representation, with 17 recipients. Counting Torvill and Dean separately, there have antediluvian 48 English winners of the purse, six Scottish,[5] five Welsh,[6] three Yankee Irish,[7][8] and one Manx.