Andy Murray
Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player from Scotland. He was ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 in 2016. Murray h ...
, who became the first person to win the award three times.
The event, broadcast live on BBC One, was hosted by Gary Lineker,
Clare Balding
Clare Victoria Balding (born 29 January 1971) is an English broadcaster, journalist, and author. She currently presents for BBC Sport, Channel 4, BT Sport, is the current president of the Rugby Football League (RFL) and formerly presented the ...
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Gabby Logan
Gabrielle Nicole Logan (''née'' Yorath; born 24 April 1973) is a Welsh presenter and a former international rhythmic gymnast who represented Wales and Great Britain. She hosted ''Final Score'' for BBC Sport from 2009 until 2013. She has also p ...
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Nominees
The nominees were revealed on 28 November 2016, during BBC One's '' The One Show''. To reflect the vast success of the past year, a record 16 sportspeople were named on the shortlist.
Other awards
In addition to the main award as "Sports Personality of the Year", several other awards were also announced:
* Overseas Personality: Simone Biles
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Team of the Year Team of the Year may refer to:
*BBC Sports Personality of the Year Team Award
*Canadian Press Team of the Year Award
*GPA Gaelic Team of the Year
*IRB International Sevens Team of the Year
*IRB International Team of the Year
*J.League Team of the Y ...
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Leicester City F.C.
Leicester City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Leicester in the East Midlands of England. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of England's football league system, and plays its home mat ...
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Lifetime Achievement
Lifetime achievement awards are awarded by various organizations, to recognize contributions over the whole of a career, rather than or in addition to single contributions.
Such awards, and organizations presenting them, include:
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Helen Rollason Award
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. The award is given “for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity”, and BB ...
Unsung Hero Award
The BBC Sports Unsung Hero Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. The award is given to the sportsperson who has made a substantive yet unrecognised contribution to sport. Sport ...
Sylvia Gore
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*Stacey Burrows Lucy Pygott
*Dr John Aldridge Mitch Fenner
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Roger Millward
Roger Millward (16 September 1947 – 2 May 2016) was an English rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1980s and 1990s. A goal-kicking , he gained a high level of prominence in the sport in England by p ...
Denys Smith
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Billy Redmayne
Billy Redmayne (6 February 1991 – 19 April 2016) was a Manx soldier and motorcycle racer.
A native of Laxey, he served in the Parachute Regiment and completed three tours in Afghanistan. He won the Newcomers Manx Grand Prix in 2014 and t ...
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Tony Mottram
Anthony John Mottram (8 June 1920 – 6 October 2016) was a British tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s. Mottram reached the quarterfinal of the 1948 Wimbledon Championships in which he lost to Gardnar Mulloy. In the doubles event he reac ...
Ruth Prideaux
Ruth Emily Prideaux (; 12 July 1930 – 7 April 2016) was an English former cricketer who played as a wicket-keeper. She appeared in 11 Test matches for England between 1957 and 1963. She was also England's first full-time head coach, and was in ...
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Beryl Crockford
Beryl Crockford (formerly Mitchell; née Martin; 26 June 1950 – 11 September 2016) was a world-champion and Olympic rower who represented Great Britain from 1975 to 1986. In 1985 she married Duncan Crockford and competed as Beryl Crockford aft ...
Dickie Jeeps
Richard Eric Gautrey Jeeps, (25 November 1931 – 8 October 2016), known as Dickie Jeeps, was an English rugby union player who played for Northampton having started his career with Cambridge Rugby Club. He represented and captained both the E ...
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Anthony Foley
Anthony Gerard Foley (30 October 1973 – 16 October 2016) was an Irish rugby union player and head coach of Munster. He was attached to the same squad during his professional playing career. He was a member of the Munster team that won the 200 ...
Christy O'Connor Snr
Patrick Christopher "Christy" O'Connor (21 December 1924 – 14 May 2016) was an Irish professional golfer. He was one of the leading golfers on the British and Irish circuit from the mid-1950s.
O'Connor won over 20 important British and Irish t ...
Anne Pashley
Anne Pashley (5 June 1935 – 7 October 2016) was a British track and field sprinter, who represented Great Britain at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Following her track and field career, she made a second career as a soprano singer.
Pashley wa ...
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Frans ten Bos
Frans Herman ten Bos (21 April 1937 – 1 September 2016) was a Scottish rugby union footballer. He played for as a lock in the 1960s,Massie, p173 and was capped seventeen times.
Ten Bos attended Fettes College in Edinburgh, where he was ...
Alastair Biggar
Alastair Gourlay Biggar (4 August 1946 – 6 February 2016) was a Scotland international rugby union player.Jack BannisterMartin Crowe
*Ronan Costello
Harry Jepson
Harry Jepson (4 February 1920 – 29 August 2016) was an English rugby league administrator and president of Leeds Rhinos.
Early life
Born in Hunslet, Leeds, Jepson was educated at Cockburn High School and subsequently worked for Leeds City Co ...
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Pavel Srnicek
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Cesare Maldini
Cesare Maldini (; 5 February 1932 – 3 April 2016) was an Italian professional football manager and player who played as a defender.
Father to Paolo Maldini and grandfather to Daniel Maldini, Cesare began his career with Italian side Triestin ...
Phil Gartside
Philip Andrew Gartside (27 April 1952 – 10 February 2016) was an English businessman who was chairman of Bolton Wanderers F.C., Bolton Wanderers Football Club.
Career
Philip Andrew Gartside was born in Leigh, Greater Manchester, Leigh, England ...
Walter McGowan
Walter McGowan, MBE (13 October 1942 – 15 February 2016), was a Scottish boxer born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire. He was known for having been the world flyweight champion (Lineal champion. Recognized by European Boxing Union, British Bo ...
Mike Towell
Mike Towell (12 September 1991 – 30 September 2016) was a Scottish professional boxer from Dundee, Scotland.
Death
On 29 September 2016 Towell fought Dale Evans at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow where he suffered head injuries after bei ...
Freddie Gilroy
Frederick Gilroy (7 March 1936 – 28 June 2016) was a Northern Irish boxer. Gilroy won a bronze medal for Ireland at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne at Bantamweight. As a professional, he took the Commonwealth (British Empire) and ...
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Tony Cozier
Winston Anthony Lloyd Cozier (10 July 1940 – 11 May 2016) was a Barbadian cricket journalist, writer, and radio commentator on West Indian cricket for over fifty years. Scyld Berry wrote that he was both the voice and the conscience of West I ...
Bud Collins
Arthur Worth "Bud" Collins Jr. (June 17, 1929 – March 4, 2016) was an American journalist and television sportscaster, best known for his tennis commentary. Collins was married to photographer Anita Ruthling Klaussen.
Education
Collins was b ...
Bahman Golbarnezhad
Bahman Golbarnezhad ( fa, بهمن گلبارنژاد, 12 June 1968 – 17 September 2016) was an Iranian Paralympic racing cyclist competing in C4 classification events and an earlier powerlifter. During his powerlifting career, he won twelve ...
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Mark Farren
Mark Farren (1 May 1982 – 3 February 2016) was an Irish footballer who played as a forward for Derry City in his prime.Zoe Tynan
Zoe Tynan (20 May 1998 – 30 August 2016) was an English footballer who played as a midfielder for Manchester City and Fylde Ladies.
Club career
Having signed for Manchester City's academy in 2015, Tynan was given her first team debut when sh ...