2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award

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2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
Date22 December 2011
Location dock10 studios, Salford
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Hosted by Sue Barker
Gary Lineker
Jake Humphrey
Winner Mark Cavendish
Website BBC Sports Personality
Television/radio coverage
Network
Runtime120 minutes
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The 2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award took place on 22 December 2011 at the dock10 studios in Salford. [1] It was the 58th presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. [1] Awarded annually by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the main titular award honours an individual's British sporting achievement over the past year, with the winner selected by public vote from a ten-person shortlist. Other awards presented include team, coach, and young personality of the year.

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The event, broadcast live on BBC One, was hosted by Sue Barker, Gary Lineker and Jake Humphrey. [1]

Cyclist Mark Cavendish won the main award, with golfer Darren Clarke the runner-up and long-distance runner Mo Farah in third place. [2]

Award process

The shortlist of ten sportspeople, which was drawn up by "a range of sports experts from newspapers and magazines across the UK", [3] was announced on 29 November 2011. [4] The shortlist was widely criticised for its lack of any female competitors. On 14 December, the British Olympic Association said that they were considering a boycott of the award ceremony in protest. The BOA chief executive, Andy Hunt, said that he would have included swimmers Keri-Anne Payne and Rebecca Adlington, rower Katherine Grainger, and England women's cricket captain, Charlotte Edwards, in his top 10. [5] The BBC said that it would review the nomination procedure for the 2012 awards. [5]

The award ceremony was held on Thursday 22 December at the dock10 in Salford, and was broadcast live on BBC One.

Nominees

The ten nominees saw three nominees from the world of golf, two each from the worlds of athletics, and cricket, and one each from boxing,cycling, and tennis.

Mark Cavendish won the award with 49.47% of the vote. Darren Clarke was the runner-up with 12.34%, and Mo Farah took third place with 8.71% of the vote. Cavendish was the third cyclist to win the award after Tom Simpson in 1965, and Sir Chris Hoy in 2008. Additionally, Cavendish became the first winner from the Isle of Man. Clarke had been runner-up in 2006, a feat he managed to repeated this time around. The last golfer to win the award was Sir Nick Faldo in 1989. Farah's fellow athlete Jessica Ennis finished third in the previous two competitions, whilst Dame Kelly Holmes was the last track and field athlete to win the award.

Sir Bobby Charlton and Baroness Grey-Thompson presented the awards.

NomineeSport2011 achievementBBC ProfileVotes (percentage) [2]
Mark Cavendish Cycling Britain's first winner of the points classification in the Tour de France; also won the world road race, the first British male champion to do so for 46 years. 169,152 (49.47%)
Darren Clarke Golf Won the 2011 Open Championship at the age of 42, becoming the oldest winner of the event since Roberto De Vicenzo in 1967. 42,188 (12.34%)
Mo Farah Athletics Won a gold medal in the 5,000m and a silver medal in the 10,000m at the World Championships. 29,780 (8.71%)
Luke Donald Golf Won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth and became the world's number one golfer. 23,854 (6.98%)
Andy Murray Tennis Won five titles and reached third place in the world rankings. 18,754 (5.48%)
Andrew Strauss Cricket Led England to victory in the Ashes on the way to becoming the number one Test team in the world. 17,994 (5.26%)
Alastair Cook Cricket Won the Ashes in Australia, as the highest run scorer and whitewashed India, 4-0, to become the number one test nation. 13,038 (3.81%)
Rory McIlroy Golf Became the youngest U.S. Open champion since 1923 11,915 (3.48%)
Dai Greene Athletics Won a gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the World Championships. 9,022 (2.64%)
Amir Khan Boxing Defeated Zab Judah in the light-welterweight unification fight in Las Vegas. 6,262 (1.83%)

Other awards

In addition to the main award as "Sports Personality of the Year", several other awards were also announced: [2]

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