For a list of winners of the main award, see BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.
Award
BBC Sports Personality of the Year
The trophy for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award is a silver four-turret lens camera
Country
United Kingdom
Presented by
BBC
First awarded
1954; 70 years ago (1954)
Website
Official website
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year is an awards ceremony that takes place annually in December. Devised by Paul Fox in 1954, it originally consisted of just a singular award of the same name. Several new awards have been introduced, and currently eight awards are presented.
The first awards to be added were the Team of the Year and Overseas Personality awards, which were introduced in 1960.[1] A Lifetime Achievement Award was first given in 1995 and again in 1996, and has been presented annually since 2001.[2] In 1999, three more awards were introduced: the Helen Rollason Award, the Coach Award, and the Newcomer Award, which was renamed to Young Sports Personality of the Year in 2001. The newest is the Unsung Hero Award, first presented in 2003.[3] In 2003, the 50th anniversary of the show was marked by a five-part series on BBC One called Simply the Best – Sports Personality. It was presented by Gary Lineker and formed part of a public vote to determine a special Golden Sports Personality of the Year. That year Steve Rider and Martyn Smith wrote a book reflecting on the 50-year history of the award and the programme.[4] The event was held outside London for the first time in 2006, when tickets were made available to the public.
The trophy for the main award is a silver-plated four-turret lens camera, and for the other awards smaller imitations of the main trophy are used. All of the BBC local regions hold their own independent award ceremonies, which take place before the main ceremony and are used to compile a shortlist for the BBC Sports Unsung Hero Award.[5]
Other awards have been presented in the past. Special Achievement Awards have been presented on five occasions: to jockey Lester Piggott in 1984 and 1994,[6] disabled marathon runner Dennis Moore in 1981, comedian David Walliams in 2006, and comedian Eddie Izzard in 2009. Sebastian Coe picked up a Special Gold Award in 2005 for his work in helping Britain obtain the right to host the 2012 Olympics.[7]
Five awards have been presented once: Manager of the Year in 1969, a Special Team Award in 1986, Good Sport Awards in 1990, an International Team Award in 1983, and the Sports Personality of the Century Award in 1999.[1] In 2003, to celebrate fifty years of Sports Personality of the Year, two special anniversary awards were created to recognise the best team and Sports Personality from the previous fifty years. Rower Steve Redgrave was voted BBC Golden Sports Personality of the Year and England's 1966 World Cup-winning football team was chosen as Team of the Decades.[8]
^ ab"Sports Personality facts and figures". BBC Sport. BBC. 9 October 2008. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
^"Sports Personality of the Year: more winners". BBC. December 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
^"Nobby named unsung hero". BBC Sport. BBC. 14 December 2003. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
^Harper, Nick (12 December 2003). "Small talk: Steve Rider". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
^"Sports Personality voting & judging: Terms & conditions". BBC Sport. BBC. 21 June 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
^"50th Sports Personality of the Year: Facts and figures". BBC. 11 November 2003. Retrieved 15 February 2009.
^"Sports Personality of the Year: more winners" (Press release). BBC. December 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
^"BBC Sports Personality round-up". BBC Sport. BBC. 14 December 2003. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
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