Sports Personality of the Year result: Geraint Thomas claims top spot at BBC SPOTY 2018

Relive SPOTY 2018

Mo Farah's coach appears shocked at his Sports Personality of the Year win

Cyclist Geraint Thomas was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday, receiving British sport's premier annual individual accolade in Birmingham as a reward for his remarkable Tour de France triumph.

The Welshman, whose victory in cycling's most prestigious race was the sixth by a British rider in seven years, topped the public vote ahead of Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton and England soccer captain Harry Kane.

The other sportsmen and women short-listed for the award were triple European sprint champion Dina Asher-Smith, English cricket's record test wicket taker James Anderson and double Olympic skeleton champion, Lizzy Yarnold.

Relive all of the drama below.

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Key Points

• Main winner expected to be announced at 9pm

[16 December 2018 19:38 · Kishan Vaghela]

Best friends, on and off the field. 

[16 December 2018 19:39 · Kishan Vaghela]

Personality vs prowess?

[16 December 2018 19:41 · Kishan Vaghela]

  ↵Add that to the over 31,000 balls he has bowled in Test matches which Gary Lineker so aptly revealed. Iconic. 

[16 December 2018 19:45 · Kishan Vaghela]

British riders completed an unprecedented clean sweep of victories in the sport’s Grand Tours, but it was Geraint Thomas who took the big one.

Thomas became the first Welshman and third Briton to win the Tour de France and he is the next nominee to be welcomed on stage. 

[16 December 2018 19:47 · Kishan Vaghela]

The Lifetime Achievement award is the next award to be handed out, with a Question of Sport host and former tennis player Sue Barker here to present the award.

It goes, this year, to former tennis champion Billie Jean King, the 39-time Grand Slam winner who inspired many women to take up the sport.

That monumental effect is recognised on her way up on stage, as she receives outstrecthed arms from most of the audience. 

[16 December 2018 19:49 · Kishan Vaghela]

  ↵Cutting. 

[16 December 2018 19:56 · Kishan Vaghela]

Truly inspiring. 

[16 December 2018 19:57 · Kishan Vaghela]

  ↵And the award to best walk on to stage goes to......

[16 December 2018 20:00 · Kishan Vaghela]

Will Billy need to return the favour tonight? 

[16 December 2018 20:02 · Kishan Vaghela]

And now for another rendition of the Three Lions (It's Coming Home) song, with instruments from all over the world leading the way. 

What a corker.