2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award

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BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024
Date17 December 2024
Location dock10 studios, Salford
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented by BBC
Hosted by Clare Balding
Gabby Logan
Alex Scott
Winner Keely Hodgkinson
Website BBC Sports Personality
Television/radio coverage
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The 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year was a sporting awards show which took place on 17 December 2024. [1] Broadcast from Media City in Salford and presented by Clare Balding, Gabby Logan, and Alex Scott, the show was shown live on BBC One. [2] [3]

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Gary Lineker, who had presented the annual ceremony since 1999, didn’t return for the 2024 awards. This came following his announcement that he would step down as presenter of Match of the Day . [4]

Nominees

The nominees for the main award, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, were announced on 9 December. [5] Voting will take place on 17 December during the show.

The judging panel included athletes Laura Kenny, Iwan Thomas, Ade Adepitan, Nedum Onuoha and Rory Best, broadcaster Eilidh Barbour, The Athletic's Laura Williamson, PA Media's Eleanor Crooks and CEO of Women in Sport, Stephanie Hilborne. From the BBC were Director of Sport, Alex Kay-Jelski, Head of Sport Content, Philip Bernie, and Executive Producer of the Awards, Gabby Cook. [6]

Nominees for the 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award [6]
NomineeSport2024 Achievement
Keely Hodgkinson Athletics At the Olympic Games, Hodgkinson won a gold medal in the 800 metres, Great Britain's first athletics gold since Mo Farah won the 5,000 and 10,000 metres at Rio 2016 and only the tenth British woman to win an Olympic athletics gold. Hodgkinson also retained her gold in the 800 metres at the European Championships.
Luke Littler Darts Reaching the final of the PDC World Championship as a 16-year-old qualifier, Littler also won the Premier League Darts, becoming the youngest winner of a major PDC tournament, and the Grand Slam of Darts, his tenth title of the season. He won over £1 million in tournament prize money across the season.
Joe Root Cricket In October, Root overtook Alastair Cook to England's leading Test run-scorer. Against Pakistan, Root had a career-best innings of 262 runs and, with Harry Brook, set an England record run partnership of 454 runs. Root is the first player for England to exceed 20,000 runs across all formats, is fifth on the all-time list of Test run scorers and has scored the most Test runs for any country in 2024.
Jude Bellingham Football In his debut season, Bellingham scored 23 goals for Real Madrid, winning La Liga and the Champions League. He also scored twice for England at Euro 2024, reaching the final of that tournament. He came third in Ballon d'Or voting, won La Liga Player of the Season, Champions League Young Player of the Season, and Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year.
Sarah Storey Para-cycling Storey won the C4-C5 road race and C5 road time trail at the Paralympic Games, bringing her Paralympic gold medal tally to 19 and overall medal tally to 30. She also won the double of C4-C5 road race and C5 road time trail at the Para-cycling Road World Championships for a tenth time, having now won 39 World gold medals in total.
Alex Yee Triathlon At the Paris Olympics, Yee won gold in the men's triathlon, overtaking New Zealand's Hayden Wilde in the closing stages, and was part of the Great Britain team which won bronze at the mixed relay. Yee also became World Champion, winning the World Triathlon Championship Series, including event wins in Cagliari and Weihai.

Other awards

World Sport Star Award

The nominees for the BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year were announced on 3 December. [7] The public vote opened on the day, and closed on 10 December.

Nominees for the 2024 BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year [7]
NationalityNomineeSport2024 Achievement
Sweden Armand Duplantis Athletics Becoming the first man since 1956 to retain an Olympic pole vault, Duplantis won gold with a world record height. He also won the World Indoor and European titles, as well as winning the Diamond League for a fourth straight year.
United States Simone Biles Artistic gymnastics At the Paris Olympics, Biles won gold in the all-around, team and vault competitions, with a further silver on the floor.
United States Caitlin Clark Basketball In her first year in the Women's National Basketball Association, Clark won Rookie of the Year Award, setting records for points, assists and three pointers in a debut season.
Switzerland Catherine Debrunner Para-athletics The most successful para athletics competitor at the Paris Paralympics, Debrunner won five golds in the 400m T53, 800m T53, 1500m T54, 5000m T54 and marathon T54, with a silver in the 100m T53. Additionally, she won the London Marathon, retained the Berlin Marathon and won the Chicago Marathon in a record time to win a second successive World Marathon Majors.
Netherlands Sifan Hassan Athletics At the Paris Olympics, Hassan won the marathon with a sprint finish, as well as bronzes in both the 5000m and the 10,000m, becoming the first athlete in 72 years to win medals in all three events at the same games.
France Léon Marchand Swimming The poster boy of the Paris Olympics, Marchand won more golds than any other athlete at the games, with golds in the 200m breaststroke, 200m butterfly, 200m individual medley and 400m individual medley.

Young Sports Personality of the Year

On 5 December 2024, the shortlist of three for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year was announced. [8] The shortlist was whittled down from ten athletes, which also contained snowboarder Mia Brookes, cyclist Cat Ferguson, middle-distance runner Phoebe Gill, gymnast Abigail Martin, footballer Ethan Nwaneri, para-table tennis player Bly Twomey and para-swimmer Iona Winnifrith. The judging panel included wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn, BMX-er Kieran Reilly, BBC Sport presenter Qasa Alom, Radio 1 presenter Jeremiah Asiamah and representatives from the Youth Sport Trust, Blue Peter and BBC Sport.

Nominees for the 2024 BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year [8]
NomineeSport2024 Achievements
Luke Littler Darts On a fairytale run to the PDC World Darts Championship final, Littler broke a host of records and went on to win the Premier League Darts title and the Grand Slam of Darts, the latter taking him to over ten titles in a single series.
Sky Brown Skateboarding Brown became a double Olympic medallist, winning a bronze medal, despite tearing a knee ligament and dislocating a shoulder in the run up to the Paris Olympics.
William Ellard Para swimming At the Paris Paralympics, Ellard won golds in the 200m free S14 and mixed 4 × 100 m free relay S14, winning the former in a world record time. In addition, a silver came in the 100m butterfly S14 and he won two golds, a silver and a bronze at the European Championships.

Unsung Hero Award

The winners from the BBC's twelve English regions, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales were announced on 12 December 2024. [9] The overall winner of the BBC Sports Unsung Hero Award was announced on the night. The Unsung Hero Award celebrates the volunteers who "make a positive impact on their community by enabling participation in grassroots sports, bringing people together with a shared passion for sport."

Lifetime Achievement Award

On 16 December 2024, it was announced that Sir Mark Cavendish had been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. [10] This was for his cycling career, where he achieved a record breaking 35 stage wins at the Tour de France alongside 17 at the Giro d'Italia and three at the Vuelta a Espana. He also won the road race at the 2011 World Championship.

In Memoriam

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  2. ↑ "BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 - Everything you need to know about the iconic evening of sporting celebration". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
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  4. ↑ "Gary Lineker steps down as BBC Sports Personality of the Year co-host". BBC News. 13 November 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  5. ↑ "Sports Personality of the Year shortlist announced". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  6. 1 2 "BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 contenders revealed". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  7. 1 2 "Voting opens for BBC Sports Personality of the Year World Sport Star award". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  8. 1 2 "BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2024 top three revealed". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  9. ↑ "BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 Unsung Hero winners announced". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  10. ↑ "Cavendish wins BBC Lifetime Achievement award". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
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