Sports Personality of the Year LIVE: Winners revealed as Mary Earps and Manchester City claim top prizes
Lionesses goalkeeper Mary Earps is the Sports Personality of the Year as Manchester City swept the other top awards at the prestigious ceremony
Lionesses goalkeeper Mary Earps has been crowned Sports Personality of the Year, topping the public vote ahead of retired England bowler Stuart Broad and world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson to win the prestigious award.
Earps played a vital role as the Lionesses reached their first Women’s World Cup final this summer and won the Golden Glove at the tournament following a series of brilliant performances between the posts - including a penalty save in the Sydney final as Spain beat England 1-0.
The goalkeeper succeeds England teammate Beth Mead to become the second women’s footballer to win the Sports Personality of the Year award in as many years.
Manchester City won Team of the Year, manager Pep Guardiola claimed Coach of the Year and Erling Haaland was named World Sports Star after the club’s historic Treble campaign. Liverpool and Scotland legend Kenny Dalglish received the Lifetime Achievement award and former world javelin champion Fatima Whitbread took the Helen Rollason award.
Follow live updates from the Sports Personality of the Year ceremony in our live blog, below:
Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Latest updates and results
Voting has not opened yet, Lineker informs us - we must hear from the six contenders first.
Gabby Logan’s microphone has stopped working, which isn’t ideal. Quick, to a video package - and a look at the World Para Athletics and Athletics Championships from earlier this year.
Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Latest updates and results
Tong also has the introduction honours, bringing out Alex Scott and Clare Balding, and then Gary Lineker and Gabby Logan, the fab four of the Beeb’s broadcasting stable.
Scott thanks Tong and Jules Buckley for getting the party started. Logan is “delighted” to be joined by so many former winners. Lineker is excited to hand out so many special awards. And Balding leads us in to the nominees for the main award.
And, as promised, it’s another montage - we relive the contenders’ respective sporting feats.
Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Latest updates and results
Ah, it’s DJ Pete Tong and an orchestra to kick things off, providing the soundtrack to the first montage of the night. It won’t be the last.
Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Latest updates and results
The floodlights are on at the BBC’s dockside Salford base. Gary Lineker, Alex Scott, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan welcome us along. Christopher Chataway was the first winner of the Sports Personality of the Year award, if you were wondering - Roger Bannister’s pacemaker squeezed out the four-minute-miler himself back in 1954.
Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Latest updates and results
Righty ho. We aren’t far away at all from it all kicking off at MediaCity. Two hours of talking heads, memories of 2023 and fancily-clad sportspeople await.
Josh Kerr vows to use SPOTY disappointment as motivation for Olympics
Not every worthy contender made the shortlist, of course, with Josh Kerr highlighted by many as a notable omission from our group in the running for the main award. He’s vowed to use the snub to drive him in an Olympic year.
Josh Kerr vows to use SPOTY disappointment as motivation for Olympics
The 1500m world champion was not among the six nominees for this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year award
Who is in the running for World Sport Star of the Year?
It’s not just British athletes that will honoured tonight - no, that would be much too parochial. The World Sport Star of the Year is, obviously, one of the most fiercely contested, with the relative merits of the top sportspeople on Earth tough to compare. Still, a panel has managed to whittle it down to six. Crossing their fingers (maybe) will be...
Sports Personality of the Year contenders start to arrive
And Stuart Broad is also in Salford, joined on the red carpet by Mollie King, the former Saturday and his fiancée.
Sports Personality of the Year contenders start to arrive
One of the reasons that the awards were moved from their traditional weekend slot to a weekday evening was a hope of the organisers to get more sporting stars along. There will be plenty of famous faces in, and a couple of our contenders have already graced the red carpet, including Mary Earps.
Kenny Dalglish to be given lifetime achievement award at Sports Personality of the Year
Sir Kenny Dalglish will be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023.
Dalglish, who scored 167 times in 320 appearances, lifting nine trophies for Celtic before he moved to Liverpool for a British record transfer fee at the time of £440,000, will be handed the award on Tuesday.
Dalglish would go on to become a Liverpool great and helped the club retain the European Cup against Club Brugge at Wembley in 1978 by scoring the only goal of the game.
Kenny Dalglish to be given Sports Personality of the Year lifetime achievement award
Liverpool great ‘King Kenny’ remains only player to have scored more than 100 league goals in both England and Scotland
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