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BBC Sports Personality of the Year
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year is an awards ceremony that takes place annually in December. Devised by Paul Fox in 1954, it originally consisted of one titular award. Several new awards have been introduced, and , eight awards are presented. The oldest of these are the Team of the Year and...
award ceremony. It is awarded to the sportsperson aged 16 or under as of 1 January of that year, who has made the most outstanding contribution to sport in that year. Nominees are generally British. Non-Britons are eligible if they are UK resident, play a significant amount of sport in the United Kingdom, and their core achievements for the year took place in the UK, and were not done with a non-UK national team. All winners to date have been British. Nominations are put forward via Youth Sport Trust
Youth Sport Trust
The Youth Sport Trust is a British charitable trust which aims to support the education and development of young people through physical education....
, and a judging panel then decides on a ten person shortlist. The panel later reconvenes to choose the top three, and decides on the winner by secret ballot
Secret ballot
The secret ballot is a voting method in which a voter's choices in an election or a referendum are anonymous. The key aim is to ensure the voter records a sincere choice by forestalling attempts to influence the voter by intimidation or bribery. The system is one means of achieving the goal of...
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The Young Sports Personality of the Year award was preceded by the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Newcomer Award, in which the recipients could be aged up to 25. Decathlete Dean Macey
Dean Macey
Dean Macey is an English athlete from Canvey Island. He is best known for competing in the decathlon, which he did from 1995 to 2008, winning World Championship and Commonwealth Games medals, as well as twice finishing fourth in the Olympic Games...
was the inaugural winner of the Newcomer Award in 1999, and racing driver Jenson Button
Jenson Button
Jenson Alexander Lyons Button MBE is a British Formula One driver currently signed to McLaren. He was the 2009 World Drivers' Champion.Button began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success, before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the British...
was the second and last winner the following year. In 2001, the award was replaced by the Young Sports Personality of the Year, and sprinter
Sprint (race)
Sprints are short running events in athletics and track and field. Races over short distances are among the oldest running competitions. The first 13 editions of the Ancient Olympic Games featured only one event—the stadion race, which was a race from one end of the stadium to the other...
Amy Spencer
Amy Spencer
Amy Spencer is a retired English sprinter.She was born in Wigan, and came to fame as a teenager. In 1998 she won a British U13 best for 80m and the next year won the AAA U15 200m title...
was the first recipient of that award. Scottish
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
tennis player Andy Murray, who won in 2004, is the only non-English recipient of the award. The most recent award was presented in 2010 to diver Tom Daley
Tom Daley (diver)
Thomas Robert "Tom" Daley is an English diver who specialises in the 10 metre platform event and was the 2009 FINA World Champion in the individual event at the age of 15. He started diving at the age of seven and is a member of Plymouth Diving Club. He has made an impact in national and...
, who won gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
2010 Commonwealth Games
The 2010 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games, were held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010. A total of 6,081 athletes from 71 Commonwealth nations and dependencies competed in 21 sports and 272 events, making it the largest Commonwealth Games till date...
in both the synchronised and individual men's 10 m platform
Aquatics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
The aquatics events at the 2010 Commonwealth Games took place at the SPM Swimming Pool Complex, Talkatora Gardens, Delhi from 4–13 October 2010...
events. Daley became the first person to win the award three times, having been recipient previously in 2007 and 2009.
Winners
Newcomer Award
| Year | Nat. | Winner | Age | Sport | Rationale | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 |  England |
21 | Athletics | For "a string of stunning performances in the decathlon" and a "rise to prominence at [the 1999] World Championship 1999 World Championships in Athletics The 7th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Estadio Olímpico, Seville, Spain, between the August 20 and August 29.... " |
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| 2000 | England |
20 | Formula One Formula One Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which... |
For finishing "in eighth place in his debut Formula One World Championship season 2000 Formula One season The 2000 Formula One season was the 51st season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 2000 FIA Formula One World Championship which commenced on March 12, 2000, and ended on October 22 after seventeen races... " |
Young Personality Award
| Year | Nat. | Winner | Age | Sport | Rationale | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | England |
16 | Athletics | For being "world under-18 silver medallist in the 100m and 200m, despite still having two years left in the age group" | ||
| 2002 | England |
17 | Football | For being "touted by many as the most promising English football talent to have surfaced in recent years" | ||
| 2003 | England |
17 | Swimming | For becoming the "youngest ever swimmer to represent England England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games was represented by the Commonwealth Games Council for England .England joined the Commonwealth of Nations as part of the United Kingdom in 1931.... at the 2002 Commonwealth Games 2002 Commonwealth Games The 2002 Commonwealth Games were held in Manchester, England from 25 July to 4 August 2002. The XVII Commonwealth Games was the largest multi-sport event ever to be held in the UK, eclipsing London's 1948 Summer Olympics in numbers of teams and athletes participating.After the 1996 Manchester... winning a bronze in the 4x100m medley relay" and for "clinching gold in the 50m breaststroke at the European Junior Championships European Junior Swimming Championships The European Junior Swimming Championships is an annual swimming competition for European swimmers organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation and held over five days... " |
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| 2004 |  Scotland |
17 | Tennis | For making "giant strides in the world of tennis in the past 12 months, during which time he won the US Open juniors title" | ||
| 2005 | England |
17 | Athletics | For becoming the "first sprinter in the six-year history of the IAAF World Youth Championships IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics The IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics is a global athletics event comprising track and field events for competitors who are 17 or younger . The event is organized by International Association of Athletics Federations . It is held biannually... to win gold in both the 100m and 200m" |
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| 2006 | England |
17 | Football | For a "fantastic year in which he transferred to Arsenal Arsenal F.C. Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups... and went to the World Cup 2006 FIFA World Cup The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in July 2000. Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six... with England England national football team The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first... " |
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| 2007 | England |
13 | Diving Diving Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one... |
For "achievements in diving which include becoming the youngest-ever National Men's Platform Champion" | ||
| 2008 | England |
14 | Swimming | For becoming "Britain's youngest ever individual Paralympic gold medallist" | ||
| 2009 | England |
15 | Diving Diving Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one... |
For winning the men's 10 m platform Diving at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 m platform -Results:Green denotes finalists-External links:***... event at the world championships 2009 World Aquatics Championships The 2009 World Aquatics Championships or the XIII FINA World Championships were celebrated in Rome, Italy in 2009 from July 17 to August 2. The 2009 Championships featured competition in all 5 aquatics disciplines: diving, swimming, open water swimming, synchronized swimming and water polo.Rome won... , and becoming "Britain's youngest world champion in any sport". |
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| 2010 | England |
16 | Diving Diving Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one... |
For winning two gold medals in the 2010 Commonwealth Games |
By nationality
This table lists the total number of awards won by young persons of each nationality based on the principle of jus soliJus soli
Jus soli , also known as birthright citizenship, is a right by which nationality or citizenship can be recognized to any individual born in the territory of the related state...
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| Nationality | Number of wins |
|---|---|
| 11 | |
| 1 |
Winners by sport
| Sport | Number of wins |
|---|---|
| Athletics | 3 |
| Diving Diving Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one... |
3 |
| Football | 2 |
| Swimming | 2 |
| Formula One Formula One Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which... |
1 |
| Tennis | 1 |