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2014 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award

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Country
  
United Kingdom

Network
  
BBC One BBC One HD

Other ceremonies
  
2013, 2015

Winner
  
Lewis Hamilton

Date
  
14 December 2014

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Presented by
  
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Hosted by
  
Gary Lineker Clare Balding Gabby Logan

Official website
  
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/sports-personality/

Location
  
The SSE Hydro, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Hosts
  
Gary Lineker, Clare Balding, Gabby Logan

The 2014 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, took place on 14 December at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow. It was the 61st presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. Awarded annually by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the main award honours an individual's British sporting achievement over the past year, with the winner selected by public vote from a ten-person shortlist. Lewis Hamilton won the main award.

Contents

The event was presented by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan.

Basis of nominations

For 2014, the BBC introduced an expert panel who were asked to devise a shortlist that reflected UK sporting achievements on the national and/or international stage, represented the breadth and depth of UK sports and took into account "impact" within and beyond the sport or sporting achievement in question. The 2014 panel was announced on 22 October 2014. The panel members were:

  • Rebecca Adlington: Olympic gold medal winning swimmer
  • Denise Lewis: Olympic gold medal winning athlete
  • Jason Roberts: former professional footballer
  • Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson: Paralympic gold medal winning athlete
  • Mike Dunn: sports editor of The Independent and Evening Standard newspapers
  • Howard Wheatcroft: Express Newspapers head of sport
  • Alex Butler: sports editor of the Sunday Times newspaper
  • Alison Mitchell: freelance sports broadcaster and journalist
  • Louise Martin: chair of SportScotland
  • Barbara Slater: Director of BBC Sport
  • Philip Bernie: head of BBC TV sport
  • Carl Doran; executive editor, BBC Sports Personality of the Year

    • Nominees

    The shortlist of ten contenders was announced during BBC One's The One Show on 24 November and on the BBC website. Early favourites for the award included Rory McIlroy and Lewis Hamilton.

    Other awards

    In addition to the main award as "Sports Personality of the Year", several other awards were also announced:

  • BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year: Cristiano Ronaldo
  • BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year Award: England women's national rugby union team
  • BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award: Sir Chris Hoy
  • BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award: Paul McGinley
  • BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award: Invictus Games Competitors
  • BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year: Claudia Fragapane
  • BBC Sports Unsung Hero Award: Jill Stidever

    • References

    2014 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award Wikipedia
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