BBC Sports Personality of The Year Betting Guide – 2021 Update

The BBC Sports Personality of The Year Award (sometimes abbreviated as SPOTY) is a trophy given out each December to the Briton deemed to have achieved that year’s most outstanding sporting success. Thanks to its popularity BBC sports personality of the year betting is highly popular. 

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BBC Sports Personality of The Year Betting Odds

BBC Sports Personality of The Year Betting Odds

BBC Sports Personality of The Year Betting Tips & Predictions

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Popular BBC Sports Personality of The Year Betting Markets

THE BBC SPOTY is only a betting special and there are no other betting options other than to bet on the recipient of the award. There are, however, other awards that are given out on the night and bookmakers have been known to offer betting odds on these markets too.

Overall Winner

This is straightforward and uncomplicated; in fact, all these bets are. This bet is for the winner of the main award. The award has in the past been won by Andy Murray, Lewis Hamilton, Tony McCoy and Andrew Flintoff. It is always worth considering which sporting mega events will be taking place that year to see where likely heroes will emerge. Also, it has to be said that the winner has, more often than not, been male.

Team of The Year Winner

This, like the following two bets, is chosen by a panel. The award is given to the British sports team that is believed to have produced the best sporting achievement over the past 12 months.

BBC Young Sports Personality of The Year

This is a pretty self-explanatory award and goes to the young sports star who the panel has deemed to have had the best sporting year. Past winners include Wayne Rooney, Andy Murray, Theo Walcott, Tom Daley and Phil Foden.

BBC World Sport Star of The Year

This final award goes to a non-British athlete, of either gender, who the panel believe has performed better over the past 12 months than any of the other names on the final shortlist. Past winners include Roger Federer, who has won the award four times, Muhammad Ali and Usain Bolt, who have both won the award three times, Björn Borg, Jack Nicklaus Seve Ballesteros, Greg Norman, Steffi Graf, Jonah Lomu, Tiger Woods, Cristiano Ronaldo, Shane Warne, Rafael Nadal, Francesco Molinari and Boris Becker, who was 18 when he won in 1985, the youngest male to have won.

Award Structure For BBC Sports Personality of The Year

The final shortlist of nominees is announced to the public a few weeks before the award ceremony takes place in December. Although this wasn’t originally the case, these days the winner is decided by public vote on the night. The awards began in 1954 and were initially decided by a panel of sports journalists before a public vote-off was introduced in 2012. There is no fixed venue and the ceremony is hosted in a different British city each year.

History of BBC Sports Personality of The Year

The BBC's Sports Personality of the Year was the brainchild of Paul Fox, a sports editor at the corporation. The first-ever awards were held at the Savoy Hotel on 30 December that year and were hosted by Peter Dimmock.

The first winner was the middle- and long-distance runner Christopher Chataway. Up until 2012, a panel of 30 sports journalists each submitted a list of 10 contenders from which a final shortlist of 10 nominees was drawn up. In 2011, following a final shortlist entirely composed of men being submitted, this method was criticised and later abandoned to make way for the existing vote method.

BBC Sports Personality of The Year Past Winners

Sports That Have Produced The Most Winners

BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Key Stats

• Ian Black was BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1958 at the age of only 17, and is still to date the youngest winner of the award.
• One year earlier, Dai Rees became the oldest winner of the Sports Personality of the Year in 1957 after he captained the Ryder Cup golf team to victory over the USA.

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The BBC Sports Personality of The Year Award traditionally brings the curtain down on the sporting calendar year in December. The event itself is a glitzy affair where even non-nominees attend making it a veritable who’s who of British sporting greatness.

During the evening, prior to the main awards being given out, there are also awards for Team Of The Year Winner, Young Sports Personality Of The Year and the Overseas Sports Personality Of The Year, as well as few others, although there is no public vote for these. At the end of the night, the top three are announced in order, with the winner announced last after which the evening is over for another 12 months.

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