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The event, titled A Year in TIME beginning in 2023, has been held at Plaza Hotel since 2022. [145] [146] A Year in TIME typically features interviews, speeches and performances from some of the categories' winners, as well as winners of other Time awards. Some of these are then posted to Time 's official YouTube channel.
The winner is the sportsperson, judged by a public vote, to have achieved the most that year. The recipient must either be British or reside and play a significant amount of their sport in the United Kingdom. The winner is selected from a predetermined shortlist. The most recent award-winner is 800m runner Keely Hodgkinson, who won the 2024 award.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg became the youngest person ever, at the age of 16, to be named Time’s Person of the Year in 2019.. Thunberg, now in her 20s, galvanized young people ...
Personality of the year is a title awarded by a number of organisations or publications, such as: BBC Sports Personality of the Year; RTÉ Sports Person of the Year; IFFI Indian Film Personality of the Year Award; Indian Telly Award for Best Television Personality of the Year; Radio Music Awards; Radio and Records
Lionesses goalkeeper Mary Earps is the Sports Personality of the Year as Manchester City swept the other top awards at the prestigious ceremony
The inaugural recipient of the award was Frank Bruno in 1996, who won it after his retirement from boxing that year. [4] Bruno was the favourite to win the main award in 1995, but lost to Damon Hill, [5] causing many to criticise his Lifetime Achievement Award as being a consolation award.
The award continued to be held together with the sportsman and sportswoman of the year awards until 1958, by which time the latter awards were being organised by the Daily Express. [31] From 1959 the BBC award ceremony was separated from the sportsman and sportswoman of the year awards.
The nominees for the main award, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, were announced on 9 December. [5] Voting took place on 17 December during the show. The judging panel included athletes Laura Kenny, Iwan Thomas, Ade Adepitan, Nedum Onuoha and Rory Best, broadcaster Eilidh Barbour, The Athletic's Laura Williamson, PA Media's Eleanor Crooks and CEO of Women in Sport, Stephanie Hilborne.