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:
How Katarina Johnson-Thompson completed road to recovery with gold in Budapest
It’s been a long road back for Katarina Johnson-Thompson, a ruptured Achilles problem enough for a regular athlete, and potentially career-ending in a sport in which multi-faceted mastery is a must. But back the heptathlete fought to regain her crown in Hungary and tee up a tilt at Olympic gold in Paris next summer.
How Katarina Johnson-Thompson completed road to recovery with gold in Budapest
Johnson-Thompson is back on top after rupturing an Achilles.
Alfie Hewett earns nod after another Wimbledon crown
A Wimbledon crown to complete the singles set may have eluded Alfie Hewett, but a return to the top of the doubles world on home soil has earned the 26-year-old overdue recognition for a glittering career that might only just be getting started.
Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid regain their Wimbledon crown
The British pair beat Japan’s Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda in the men’s wheelchair final.
Rory McIlroy, Europe’s rockstar, finally has his Ryder Cup ‘redemption’
The major drought may have continued but Rory McIlroy will look back on 2023 as the year in which he achieved Ryder Cup redemption. Jack Rathborn was in Rome watching on:
Rory McIlroy, Europe’s rockstar, finally has his Ryder Cup ‘redemption’
The Northern Irishman helped Europe to claim back the Ryder Cup in Rome on a dramatic day of Sunday singles
Frankie Dettori: Born in Italy, but a British racing legend
He may have been born in Milan but Frankie Dettori’s legend was made in England. Ahead of his farewell to the British racing scene at Ascot in October, Michael Jones considered the great jockey’s legacy.
Five more rides, one legend: Frankie Dettori ready for British racing farewell
The 52-year-old had planned on retiring from the sport but will now continue his career in America
Stuart Broad: ‘How do I replace the feeling of wickets, the adulation? Maybe I don’t need to’
It was, in so many ways, the perfect farewell. Stuart Broad capped 17 years of hard toil by sealing an Ashes victory at the Oval and a 2-2 draw, taking a wicket with his final ball in Test cricket. From his first days as a gangly youngster with a shock of floppy blond hair to England’s hairband-clad man for the moments, it’s been quite the journey. But what comes next for a man with such a competitive spirit? Lawrence Ostlere finds out:
Stuart Broad: ‘How do I replace the feeling of wickets, adulation? Maybe I don’t’
The bowling great tells Lawrence Ostlere about his fairytale Ashes ending, sledging Australians, his love of Bazball and the uncertainty of retirement as he launches his new autobiography, ‘Broadly Speaking’
How Mary Earps seized a moment and ‘changed the world’ in 2023
She was the shot-stopping linchpin of the Lionesses’ World Cup campaign, a goalkeeper with the power and popularity to shift Nike’s strategy. Her biggest moment of the year may have come in defeat, but Mary Earps is more than just a footballer - as Jamie Braidwood explains...
How Mary Earps seized a moment and ‘changed the world’ in 2023
When the favourite for tonight’s Sports Personality of the Year award was told her shirt would not be available for sale during the Women’s World Cup, the Lionesses goalkeeper sparked a movement that led to something bigger
Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Latest updates
But it is on the main award that we will kick off our focus, with a closer look at each of our six contenders this evening. Let’s start with the favourite...
Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Latest updates
Of course, SPOTY isn’t the only award set to be given out tonight. Here are the other seven:
- World Sport Star of the Year
- Helen Rollason award
- Young Sports Personality of the Year
- Unsung Hero
- Coach of the Year
- Team of the Year
- Lifetime Achievement award
Sports Personality of the Year: Recent winners
None of tonight’s shortlisted athletes have yet won the award, though Rory McIlroy recorded a second-placed finish in 2014. Here are the winners of the last ten awards:
2013, 2015, 2016: Andy Murray, tennis
2014, 2020: Lewis Hamilton, Formula 1
2017: Mo Farah, Athletics
2018: Geraint Thomas, cycling
2019: Ben Stokes, cricket
2021: Emma Raducanu, tennis
2022: Beth Mead, football
Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Latest updates and results
So how is the BBC Sports Personality of the Year decided? Glad you asked...
Voting for the main award will open when the BBC’s broadcast begins at 7pm GMT, and is available online via the BBC Sport website or by phone. Individuals can only vote once and must live in the United Kingdom if voting online.
A tie in the public vote amongst the two contenders obtaining the highest number of votes, the award will be shared amongst those two. In the unlikely event of a major malfunction with the public voting process, the selection panel who named the shortlist will undertake a back-up vote.
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