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2023 BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Award
The 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year was a sporting awards show and took place on 19 December 2023. Broadcast from Media City in Salford and presented by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding, Gabby Logan, and Alex Scott, the show was shown live on BBC One. During the show, seventy years of the awards will be celebrated. Mary Earps won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, becoming the first football goalkeeper to do so. Cricketer Stuart Broad was runner-up, with heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson in third place. The BBC does not reveal voting statistics for this programme or award. Nominees On 12 December, the nominees for the main award were announced live on ''BBC Breakfast''. The judging panel consisted of athletes Ellen White, Colin Jackson, Ellie Simmonds, Chris Paterson, sports journalists David Coverdale from the ''Daily Mail'', Rob Maul from ''The Sun'', Charlotte Harpur from ''The Athletic'', chair of UK Sport Dame Katherine Grainger, sports broadcaste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dock10 (television Facility)
dock10 is a Television studio, television facility owner and media services company in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. dock10 offers a number of services including post production and The Studios. Its studio filming facility, often referred to as The Studios, is the best-known part of the company. It was built as a major part of MediaCityUK, a development in Salford, Greater Manchester. The move saw a number of major productions leave London for the first time and head north to Manchester, Salford. The BBC, ITV (TV network), ITV and Channel 4 all relocated the filming of various shows to The Studios. This included established British shows ''Match of the Day'' and ''Countdown (game show), Countdown''. dock10 also offers other media services, such as post production. Their post-production shows include ''Match of the Day'', ''Blue Peter'' and ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (British game show), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?''. History The idea for Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ellen White (footballer)
Ellen Toni Convery (née White; born 9 May 1989) is an English former professional women's association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. She is the record goalscorer for the England women's national football team, England women's national team. Having progressed through the Arsenal academy, White returned to the Gunners in 2010, after spells with Chelsea F.C. Women, Chelsea and Leeds United Women F.C., Leeds Carnegie. She has also played for Notts County Ladies F.C., Notts County, Birmingham City L.F.C., Birmingham City and Manchester City W.F.C., Manchester City. White earned the WSL's Golden Boot Award for most goals scored during the 2017–18 season. With Arsenal, she won the league in 2011 and 2012; the FA Women's Cup in 2011 and 2013 and the FA WSL Cup in 2011, 2012, and 2013. With Birmingham City, she was the league's top scorer in 2018. With Manchester City, she won the Women's FA Cup in 2020, and the Women's League Cup in 2022 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Emma Raducanu
Emma Raducanu ( , ; born 13 November 2002) is a British professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 10 by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, and is the current British No. 1. Raducanu was the 2021 US Open – Women's singles, 2021 US Open champion, and the first British woman to win a singles Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major since Virginia Wade at the 1977 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 1977 Wimbledon Championships. With a Wild card (sports), wildcard entry at 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2021 Wimbledon, ranked outside the world's top 300, she reached the fourth round at her first major tournament. At the 2021 US Open, she became the first qualifier (tennis), qualifier in the Open Era to win a Grand Slam singles title, beating Leylah Fernandez in 2021 US Open – Women's singles final, the final and without dropping a set during the tournament. It was the second major tournament of her career, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Beth Mead
Bethany Jane Mead (born 9 May 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for the Women's Super League (WSL) club Arsenal W.F.C., Arsenal and the England women's national football team, England national team. A creative and prolific forward, she has all-time most assists and all-time second-most goal contributions in the WSL. Joint with Vivianne Miedema, she is the first player to reach a combined total of 100 goals and assists in the WSL. At UEFA Women's Euro 2022, she became the Golden Boot winner, Player of the Tournament, and top assist provider, leading England to win a major tournament for the first time. Later that year, she was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, BBC Sports Personality of the Year, becoming the first women's footballer to win the prestigious award; and finished runner-up for the 2022 Ballon d'Or#Ballon d'Or Féminin, Ballon d'Or and UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award#2021–22, UEFA Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Barbara Slater (sports Producer)
Barbara Jane Slater, (born 10 May 1959) is a former English sports producer, who was BBC Director of Sport for 15 years before retiring in March 2024. She was also an ex-Olympic gymnast who represented Great Britain at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. Slater became the BBC's first female Director of Sport in April 2009, retiring from the role in March 2024 after overseeing fourteen different football World Cups and European Championships and seven Olympic Games. BBC director-general Tim Davie paid tribute to her career following the announcement of her retirement, saying: “Barbara has had an extraordinary career at the BBC, a pioneer, innovator and outstanding leader, she has kept the BBC at the forefront of sport for a generation." Previous to her Director role, she had been the BBC's Head of Production and Head of General Sports for a number of years. Slater was succeeded as Director of Sport by Alex Kay-Jelski. Biography Slater was born into a sporting family: her fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC BBC Television, television, BBC Radio, radio and BBC Online, online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as ''Match of the Day'', ''Test Match Special'', ''Ski Sunday'' and ''Today at Wimbledon''. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the #BBC Sport Online, BBC Sport website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service. History The BBC has broadcast sport for several decades under individual programme names and coverage titles. ''Grandstand (TV programme), Grandstand'' was one of the more notable sport programmes, broadcasting sport for almost 50 years. The BBC first began to brand sport coverage as 'BBC Sport' in 1988 for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, by introducing the programme with a short animation of a globe circumnavigated by four c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Holly Hamilton
Holly Hamilton (born 10 December 1986) is a BBC journalist and presenter who has appeared on ''BBC Breakfast'' on BBC One, the ''Victoria Derbyshire'' programme on BBC Two and the BBC News channel. Hamilton grew up in Greyabbey in County Down, Northern Ireland, and was educated at Regent House School, Newtownards. She earned a master's degree in Politics and French from the University of Dundee. She is married to fellow television and radio presenter Connor Phillips. Hamilton gave birth to their son, Fionn, on 21 January 2021. Hamilton and Phillips are patrons of the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education ( NICIE) and, as part of their role, they officially opened Corran Integrated Primary School in Larne, County Antrim, in November 2019. At the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Hamilton fronted morning coverage of the games alongside Jason Mohammad. She presents Sunday Morning Live on BBC One BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Katherine Grainger
Dame Katherine Jane Grainger (born 12 November 1975) is a Scottish athlete. She is a 2012 Summer Olympics gold medallist, four-time Olympic silver medallist and six-time World Champion for Great Britain. She served as Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University between 2015 and 2020 and is currently Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. Grainger first won silver at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 in the woman's quadruple sculls. In Athens in 2004, she won silver in the coxless pairs. In Beijing 2008 she won her third silver, again in the quadruple sculls. At the London Olympics 2012, Anna Watkins and Grainger broke the Olympic record as they qualified for the double sculls final, before winning the gold medal. Grainger won a silver medal at the Rio Olympic Games 2016 with Victoria Thornley, after a two-year break from the sport. Grainger won eight medals at the World Championship between 1997 and 2011. Early life and education Born in Glasgow in 1975, she attended Mosshead Prima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
UK Sport
UK Sport is the government agency responsible for investing money sourced from the National Lottery and the government, into Olympic and Paralympic sport in the United Kingdom. It is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It was created in 1997, following a "rock bottom" showing at the 1996 Summer Olympics where Team GB won just one solitary gold medal. Team GB and Paralympics GB went on to place third in the medal table at London 2012 and second in the table at Rio 2016. Funding UK Sport currently invests around £345m in summer Olympic and Paralympic sports and £24m in winter Olympic and Paralympic sports. These investments are spread over a four-year cycle ahead of the Tokyo and Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games respectively. The investments are made through Athlete Performance Awards which are paid directly to the athlete and contribute to their living and sporting costs and through central funding to sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Athletic
''The Athletic'' is a subscription-based sports journalism department of ''The New York Times''. It provides national and local coverage in 47 North American cities as well as the United Kingdom. ''The Athletic'' also covers national stories from top professional and college sports. ''The Athletic'' coverage focuses on a mix of long-form journalism, original reporting, and in-depth analysis. Its business model is predicated on dis-aggregating the sports section of local newspapers, and reaching non-local fans not reached by a local newspaper. ''The Athletic'' was launched by Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann in January 2016 as an independent subscription-based online sports magazine. It gradually expanded its stable of writers over the next few years to provide better coverage of more teams in more markets, including in the United Kingdom. However, the magazine remained unable to earn enough revenue without advertising to make a profit, and the owners began to seek an outside buy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Sun (United Kingdom)
''The Sun'' is a British Tabloid journalism, tabloid newspaper, published by the News UK#News Group Newspapers Ltd, News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lachlan Murdoch's News Corp. It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the ''Daily Herald (UK newspaper), Daily Herald'', and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner. ''The Sun'' had the List of newspapers in the United Kingdom by circulation, largest daily newspaper circulation in the United Kingdom, but was overtaken by freesheet rival ''Metro (British newspaper), Metro'' in March 2018. The paper became a seven-day operation when ''The Sun on Sunday'' was launched in February 2012 to replace the closed ''News of the World'' and employed some of its former journalists. In March 2020, the average circulation for ''The Sun'' was 1.21 million, ''The Sun on Sunday'' 1,013,777. ''The Sun'' has been involved in many controversies in its history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Daily Mail
The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily Middle-market newspaper, middle-market Tabloid journalism, tabloid conservative newspaper founded in 1896 and published in London. , it has the List of newspapers in the United Kingdom by circulation, highest circulation of paid newspapers in the UK. Its sister paper ''The Mail on Sunday'' was launched in 1982, a Scotland, Scottish edition was launched in 1947, and an Ireland, Irish edition in 2006. Content from the paper appears on the MailOnline online newspaper, news website, although the website is managed separately and has its own editor. The paper is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of one of the original co-founders, is the chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, while day-to-day editorial decisions for the newspaper are usually made by a team led by the editor. Ted Verity succeeded Geordie Greig as editor on 17 November 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
