Sports Personality of the Year LIVE: Winners revealed as Mary Earps and Manchester City claim top prizes

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

• Lionesses goalkeeper Mary Earps crowned Sports Personality of the Year

• England bowler Stuart Broad second, athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson third

• Liverpool and Scotland legend Kenny Dalglish receives Lifetime Achievement Award

• Manchester City and Pep Guardiola win Team and Coach of the Year awards after Treble season

• Manchester City’s Erling Haaland wins World Sports Star award after record scoring year

• Former javelin world champion Fatima Whibread receives Helen Rollason award

• Snowboard world champion Mia Brookes, 16, wins Young Sports Personality of the Year

And the winner of the 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award is...

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Mary Earps

How Mary Earps seized a moment and ‘changed the world’ in 2023

SPOTY honour rewards Mary Earps’ decision to ‘give it a couple more years’

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Mary Earps being crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year marks the latest high in an incredible turnaround for a player who in early 2021 was considering calling time on her career.

At that point, the goalkeeper had not been involved in the England set-up since claiming her eighth cap in November 2019.

After being recalled as part of Sarina Wiegman’s first Lionesses squad in September 2021, she has gone on to help the team make history as Euro 2022 winners on home soil and then runners-up at this year’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

How Mary Earps seized a moment and ‘changed the world’ in 2023

70th BBC Sports Personality of the Year - the winners

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• Young Sports Personality of the Year - Mia Brookes

• Lifetime Achievement - Sir Kenny Dalglish

• Unsung Hero - Des Smith

• Helen Rollason - Fatima Whitbread

• World Sport Star - Erling Haaland

• Team of the Year - Manchester City

• Coach of the Year - Pep Guardiola

• Sports Personality of the Year - Mary Earps

Mary Earps is the 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year

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Mary Earps is the 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year

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Back-to-back SPOTY awards for the Lionesses, with Mary Earps following teammate Beth Mead to the gong. It’s also the third year in a row that a sportswoman has claimed the prize (Emma Raducanu, 2021) for the first time since the early 1960s.

Mary Earps crowned Sports Personality of the Year as Lionesses make further history

Mary Earps is the 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year

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“I feel a bit sick, actually! First of all, I’d like to say how humbled I am to be on a list with such incredible athletes. Sport is a fantastic thing where it brings the world together, so congratulations to you all. Thanks to everyone that voted for me. I am very honoured and humbled - it’s the ultimate all-round sporting accolade. This is just...wow! It’s not been the easiest journey and I wouldn’t be here without so many people in my corner, so thanks to them. They’ve been with me through the really, really not so great times. The last two years have been unbelievable.”

In second place is...

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Stuart Broad

In the third place is...

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Katarina Johnson-Thompson

Sports Personality of the Year

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It’s time for the primary prize of the evening, the 70th awarding of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

1984 winners Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean will do the honours...

Team and Coach of the Year

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It’s a double prize for Manchester City - they are named Team of the Year after their treble, with Pep Guardiola named Coach of the Year. Kyle Walker and Pep Guardiola apologise that they are otherwise engaged.

Lifetime Achievement Award

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From one footballer to another, and the great Kenny Dalgish, the winner of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Alan Hansen presents the trophy to his great mate as Gerry and the Pacemakers play, the pair sharing a warm embrace. He’s joined on stage by his family and a collection of some of his past players and fellow footballing stars.

“I’m very grateful to the BBC, I will treasure this dearly. There are a lot of people to thank. All we did with football is to try and make people happy, and the best way to make people happy is to get results. If they enjoyed us winning, it is a fraction of the enjoyment we got from the support they gave us. It’s not about taking part, it’s about winning for me, and fortunately we were able to do that.”

World Sport Star of the Year

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Quickly on to our next award, and Erling Haaland takes the gong for World Sport Star of the Year from a coterie of sporting superstars.

Haaland thanks those who voted for him after an “incredible” year that saw him fire Manchester City to the treble.

Helen Rollason Award

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The Helen Rollason Award goes to...Fatima Whitbread, 1987 BBC Sports Personality of the Year after winning javelin gold. She grew up in a series of children’s homes before being adopted by her coach, Margaret.

Whitbread has since campaigned and fundraised for children in care, and is an ambassador for Action for Children.

“This is a very, very special award. Helen was a friend, and I remember her ringing me and asking if I’d be the first international athlete she could interview. I stand here and I am proud and privileged to win this award, but I stand here and represent the care sector, celebrate our young children, the remarkable resilience they show. The children are our future, so if we can invest in them from an early age, it will help decide what and who they become, and indeed society too.

“I’m calling for fundamental change where our children’s today and tomorrow are safer, happier, and healthier, and that they may well reach their potential one day, too.”

Unsung Hero Award

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The 15 shortlisted contenders are assembled on stage, all doing vital, too often unheralded work in community sport.

And the winner is...Desmond Smith, who set up the Sheffield Caribbean Sports Club - a safe haven for young people which supports five cricket teams and eight junior football sides as well as netball and hockey teams.

BBC Sports Personality of the Year - Voting is OPEN

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And with our sixth and final contender profiled, voting is now open for the 70th BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Half-an-hour of voting to decide our winner.

Rory McIlroy is a contender for BBC Sports Personality of the Year

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McIlroy is unable to join Gary Lineker this season, so Tommy Fleetwood has been collared for a chat.

“Rory is amazing,” Fleetwood says of his Ryder Cup playing partner. “I still feel like he is the best player of our generation, the biggest talent. It’s quite an easy job being next to Rory - he sees shots that not a lot of us can hit. At the Ryder Cup, he just showed what he leader he is.”

Sports Personality of the Year

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Into a couple of golfing highlights of 2023, with the Ryder Cup and Rory McIlroy soon in focus, but deserved shine given to Europe’s Solheim Cup heroics in September:

Europe retain Solheim Cup after final-day drama against the USA

Mary Earps is another 2023 SPOTY contender

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Runners-up in Sydney were the Lionesses, with rock solid goalkeeper Mary Earps right at the heart of their success. The saver of a penalty in that final, Earps joins Alex Scott on stage.

“Football is a bit of a brutal game so it’s really nice to hear those things,” Earps says of some lovely comments from her teammates and Sarina Wiegman. “It’s been an incredible couple of years and I just feel really grateful to have been given an opportunity to fulfil my wildest dreams.

“Goalkeeping is a massive passion of mine and I’m trying to represent a huge group of people, show it can be cool. What I’ve learnt over the last couple of years is you’ve got to show a lot of resilience in life. We all go through hard times, but I think football is a vehicle and we can all change the world in some way.”

Sports Personality of the Year

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And now a look back at what was, in many ways, the centrepiece of the sporting summer, and the Fifa Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, which ended in Spanish triumph.

The two sides of the Women’s World Cup — and the truth about where power still lies

Stuart Broad is the next contender up on the stage

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And that, logically, allows Stuart Broad to come in off his long run for a chat.

“Honestly, I could never have written a more fairytale finish. The best wicket you can take in cricket is the one that wins a Test match; to do it with my last ball in Test cricket to beat Australia was pretty cool.

“I think this summer, the 2023 Ashes, was full of emotion and drama, so competitive. I love that part of it and the Australians bring the best out of me.

“It was really special walking off and knowing that my family had seen my final act on a cricket pitch. Ultimately, cricket is my greatest hobby so I want to stay within the game. Although I won’t be bowling or hitting any more balls, I’ll still be part of the cricket family.”

Sports Personality of the Year

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Former England seamer Isa Guha and broadcaster Greg James take us through the highlights of an incident-packed Ashes summer, which ended in two drawn series and two Australia retentions in a glittering year for the nation’s batters and bowlers.

The stats behind a thrilling Ashes series

The 2023 Young Sports Personality of the Year is Mia Brookes

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The 16-year-old became the youngest snowboarding world champion in the spring, and the first Brit to take a snowboard slopestyle world title.

“It was one of my biggest dreams. I think the Olympics in the next two years obviously, so I’m going to keep going and try and get gold there. Thank you everyone.”

The first award of the night...

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...is Young Sports Personality of the Year.

Up for this are:

Mia Brookes, snowboarding

Penny Healey, archery

Charlie McIntyre, wheelchair basketball

Alfie Hewett is up for Sports Personality of the Year

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The wheelchair tennis star is one of the most decorated players of all time, and coming off the back of another remarkable year.

He joins Clare Balding up on stage. “Tennis means everything to me. It really opened up a massive opportunity for me. I was a seven-year-old who didn’t enjoy the wheelchair, couldn’t come to terms with my disability, but I found a love of tennis. I started to really embrace myself in another sport. To be on the stage here tonight getting the recognition for what I’ve done is something that I’m really grateful for.

“I know it is my name that is on the screen, but I wouldn’t be where I would be today without all the people who have been in my corner since day one. There have been a lot of highs, but some lows as well. I want to thank them for everything they do. They really help drive my tennis in the right direction.

“There’s not many interviews I do these days where people don’t mention Wimbledon or a gold medal. I’m going to try my best next year.”

Sports Personality of the Year

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Danny Dyer provides the recap of the footballing year, culminating in a triumph for his beloved West Ham in the Europa Conference League final. Special mention, though, is extended to Manchester City’s treble-winners:

Why Man City’s landmark Champions League victory stretches far beyond the treble

Frankie Dettori is the next contender

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Appearing via video link from France, Dettori (clad in a black shirt) apologises for not wearing a tuxedo.

“I’ve been in Australia for a month and I’ve only got four days off before I fly to the US and start riding on boxing day. I’m very sorry [I can’t be there].

“To be, I’m already a winner. To get into the last six, racing to me is very important, but other sports perhaps appeal more to wider audiences. I really feel a winner to be in the last six. Apart from Stuart Broad, the other contestants weren’t even born when I started riding! I’m the old man of the group.

“Athletes can sympathise with me - as you get older, you have to train more to compete with people half my age. Fitness is very important. The most important thing is your mental state, and the anger you have to have to keep on winning.

“At the beginning of the season, I thought, ‘well, I’m 52, I want to stop at the top’. I thought I’d call it quits, and I’d walk away into the sunset and say my last farewell to eveyrone. But wherever I went I kept on winning. I got to August and thought, ‘oh my god, am I doing the right thing here?’ But I told everyone I was quitting, so I sort of snookered myself. My only option that I had was emigrate to the USA because it’s the last chance I have to continue what I love until one day I say, ‘enough is enough’. But the desire of winning is still there. I’m sorry everyone - I made a mistake!”

Sports Personality of the Year

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Through a few of the highlights of the first quarter of the year we whizz, with Gabby Logan reserving a farewell to Mo Farah, a former SPOTY winner, after the distance runner’s retirement earlier this year.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson is the first contender profiled

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KJT reflects on her emotional journey back from injury and loss, fighting back to secure her second World Championships gold in the heptathlon, a gutsy final run securing the title in Budapest.

And here she is in Salford, catching up with Gabby Logan.

“The strength for me came from the team around me. My coach, Aston, my partner, my mum, Denise [Lewis] and some of my training partners that are here - they rallied around me and gave me the confidence I didn’t see in myself.

“I think going into 2023, I had nothing to lose. I’ve seen rock bottom in many different forms, and I didn’t want the perception of me to be what you saw in Tokyo. I’m happy that I am able to stand here today to be able to say that despite the injuries and the heartbreak, you can have a career.

[On next year being 12 years from Jessica Ennis-Hill’s Olympic heptathlon gold, and 24 years after Denise Lewis claimed the same crown] “I do love an even number. I was there to witness Jess and she was a huge inspiration when she had that moment in 2012. Everyone knows Denise has been such a rock during my career so I’d love to have that ending.”

Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Latest updates and results

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Logan’s microphone is back operational. She’s found Josh Kerr, clearly not put off attending by his cruel snub:

“It takes a little bit of time [to get used to]” the 1500m world champion says of having that title next to his name. “I think the first time you get introduced as a world champion is pretty special. Now I’m getting used to it.”

Hannah Cockcroft is here, too.

“We’ve got a big year coming up,” she says. “Everything to play for in the next year. A lot of pressure on my shoulders but I’m thriving.”

Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Latest updates and results

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Who is in the running for World Sport Star of the Year?

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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...

Simone Biles

Erling Haaland

Siya Kolisi

Aitana Bonmati

Novak Djokovic

Max Verstappen

Sports Personality of the Year contenders start to arrive

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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

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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

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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

How Katarina Johnson-Thompson completed road to recovery with gold in Budapest

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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

Alfie Hewett earns nod after another Wimbledon crown

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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

Rory McIlroy, Europe’s rockstar, finally has his Ryder Cup ‘redemption’

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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’

Frankie Dettori: Born in Italy, but a British racing legend

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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

Stuart Broad: ‘How do I replace the feeling of wickets, the adulation? Maybe I don’t need to’

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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’

How Mary Earps seized a moment and ‘changed the world’ in 2023

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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

Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Latest updates

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Latest updates and results

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This year marks 70 editions of the Sports Personality of the Year Awards, ever a fixture of the festive season. A vintage year of British sporting triumphs it may not have been but there are six worthy candidates up for the big award.

Here’s everything you need to know about our sporting sextet:

Sports Personality of the Year Award contenders revealed

Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Latest updates and results

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The BBC Sports Personality of the Year will be crowned tonight with Lionesses goalkeeper Mary Earps and retired England cricket bowler Stuart Broad among the favourites for the main award.

The prestigious end-of-year ceremony is taking place in Manchester and will celebrate some of the standout sporting moments of 2023. Earps and Broad are joined by jockey Frankie Dettori, athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson, tennis player Alfie Hewett and golfer Rory McIlroy on the six-person shortlist to succeed Lionesses player Beth Mead as the Sports Personality of the Year.

Earps is the odds-on favourite for the prize after helping England reach their first Women’s World Cup final this summer. The 30-year-old won the Golden Glove award for her performances during the tournament and saved a penalty from Spain’s Jenni Hermoso in the Sydney final while, off the pitch, Earps also spoke out on Nike’s decision not to sell her shirt during the World Cup - leading to a wave of support and a U-turn from the manufacturer.

A number of other awards will also be handed out by presenters Gary Lineker, Alex Scott, Gabby Logan and Clare Balding, including Team of the Year, Coach of the Year, and World Sports Star. Meanwhile, Liverpool and Scotland legend Kenny Dalglish will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.