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  BBC Sports Personality of the Year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The award was originally devised by the BBC producer Paul Fox in 1954 and continues to be organised annually by the BBC.
The award is voted for by the general public towards the end of the calendar year, and is one of the most prestigious all-sport awards in British sport.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_Sports_Personality_of_the_Year   (563 words)

  
 Ashes hero Flintoff voted Sports Personality of the Year | Breaking news | Guardian Unlimited Sport
Andrew Flintoff was roused from his slumbers in Pakistan last night as he became the first cricketer for 24 years to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
While the Ashes-winning team carried off the team of the year trophy, Flintoff, the talismanic figure who scored 402 runs and took 24 wickets in the series, triumphed in the public vote, beating off a strong challenge from second-placed Ellen MacArthur and the Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard in third.
Flintoff was presented with the award in England's team hotel in Lahore at 3am, eight hours before he was due to play in the second one-day international against Pakistan.
sport.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,10488,1665260,00.html   (345 words)

  
 Indiantelevision.com > Breaking News > Kelly Holmes is BBC Sports personality of the year
Holmes was presented with the trophy for being the sports personality who most captured the UK public's imagination this year.
Matthew Pinsent accepted the award, which was presented by Otto Rehhagel, the coach of the Greek national football team.
Andrew Murray is BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.
www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k4/dec/dec114.htm   (312 words)

  
 rediff.com: sports channel - Beckham wins BBC award
David Beckham was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday, completing his transformation from national villain to hero in three and a half years.
Beckham, 26, crowned a successful year by scoring a trademark 25-metre free-kick in the dying seconds of the match against Greece in October, securing the 2-2 draw which took England to the 2002 World Cup.
The other footballers to win the BBC award were Bobby Moore in 1966, Paul Gascoigne in 1990 and Michael Owen in 1998.
www.rediff.com /sports/2001/dec/10bbc.htm   (275 words)

  
 Horsesdaily News: Zara Phillips Crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2006
Horsesdaily News: Zara Phillips Crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2006
Zara Phillips Crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2006
She joins show jumper David Broome, who was BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1960, and her mother HRH The Princess Royal, who won the award in 1971.
www.horsesdaily.com /news/eventing/2006/12-13-phillips.html   (570 words)

  
 RTÉ.ie Sport - Phillips wins BBC accolade
Darren Clarke was second in the BBC poll for Sports Personality of the Year
The Overseas Personality Of The Year award was decided by the votes of the studio audience and they chose tennis star Roger Federer, who has won four successive Wimbledon singles titles.
St Helens rugby league side had double reason to celebrate after winning the Team Of The Year award while Saints supremo, Daniel Anderson, was chosen as Coach Of The Year as a result of their treble triumph.
www.rte.ie /sport/2006/1211/clarked.html   (296 words)

  
 BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Voting, Odds, TV Schedule
The winner this year is Zara Phillips, a 26-year-old gorgeous blond and daughter of Princess Anne - who took the gold at the World Equestrian Games and was soon after named the Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year.
The public decided who would receive this year's prize during the telecast live from the NEC in Birmingham on December 10 at 1900 GMT on BBC One.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year - The official site with viewer voting, related rules, video clips of major sporting highlights, nominee pictures and profiles plus viewer-submitted predictions and tales of the year's greatest sporting moments.
www.chiff.com /recreation/sports/bbc-sports-personality.htm   (306 words)

  
 BBC Sports Personality of 2005
Team of the Year - England cricket team
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year was won by Freddie Flintoff as predicted.
It was a good set of awards for cricket with the English team winning the team of the year and Shane Warne triumphing as overseas personality of the year.
www.biogs.com /awards/sportspersonality.html   (169 words)

  
 Regatta Online - News
The overseas sports personality award was won jointly by the boxer Evander Holyfield and the sprinter Michael Johnson.
Steve Redgrave was elected Sportsman of the Year and with his partner Matthew Pinsent Sports Team of the Year by the Sports Writers Association in their annual awards anounced on 16 December 1996.
The awards come the day after Redgrave was beaten by the Formula One driver Damon Hill in the election for BBC Sports Personality of the Year, and at least show that sportswriters can recognise a true champion and a true achiever even if the great British sporting public cannot.
www.rowingservice.com /regatta/94-redgr.html   (324 words)

  
 SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR | A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW
Awards are also presented to the best overseas sports personality, best team, young sports personality of the year and occasionally, (four times since 1996), one recipient is bestowed with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
The BBC tried to cut off any confrontation with Bear by assuring him that their ‘little trophy’ was merely designed to apply to the Sportsview programme and limited to the athletes who had actually been featured on the programme since April.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year by Steve Rider with Martyn Smith.
www.televisionheaven.co.uk /spoty.htm   (1412 words)

  
 Personalized Sports Apparel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The award is given to an on-air personality that hosts a pregame or postgame show, or gives news during event coverage, but does not commentate on the event itself.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Team Award - The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Team Award is given on an annual basis to the sporting team or partnership considered to have made the most substantative contribution to sport in that year.
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 The Official Sir Steve Redgrave Web Site
Back in the summer, when I heard that the BBC Sports Personality of the Year was to be transformed in to a much larger scale event, I was both disappointed and a little aggrieved.
Some of the London-based sports people were unsure about the journey to Birmingham and some others who, in previous years, had followed the event with a Christmas shopping spree in Oxford Street had to rethink their plans for making a weekend of it.
When it came to the vote for the Sports Personality of the Year, I had only one criterion to be met.
www.steveredgrave.com /diary/sports_personality.htm   (699 words)

  
 BBC Sports Personality of the year, awards, BBC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards will be taking place at BBC Television Centre, London, on Sunday 11 th December 2005.
The awards recognise those achievements made by people in sport, with the main award being presented to the top sports personality from 2005, chosen by the UK public.
Other awards presented on the night include Overseas Personality and Team of The Year the winners are chosen by a panel of experts.
www.emma.tv /sport/assorted_sports/september05/bbc_sports_personality_awards.aspx   (200 words)

  
 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Betting, Sports Personality 2006 Odds
The BBC Sports Personality of the year award will be shown live on BBC television, in December 2006 with England cricket hero Andrew Freddie Flintoff, the hot favourite to win after such an incredible Ashes Series.
Freddie Flintoff is now such a red hot favourite to win the BBC TV Sports Personality of the Year Award that William Hill have closed their book and are betting on who finishes second.
The major prize for the evenings awards is the sports personality of the year award.
www.mybetting.co.uk /bbc-sports-personality-of-the-year.htm   (524 words)

  
 Holmes is BBC Sports Person of the Year
Holmes is BBC Sports Person of the Year
Double Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holmes was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday.
Holmes had been the hottest favourite ever to win the award after her exploits in Athens where victories in the 800 and 1,500 metres made her a national heroine back home in Britain.
www.rediff.com /sports/2004/dec/13kelly.htm   (208 words)

  
 BBC - Jersey - Sport - Phil Sharp is BBC Jersey Sports Personality of the Year
BBC - Jersey - Sport - Phil Sharp is BBC Jersey Sports Personality of the Year
The judges have reached a decision and the inaugural BBC Jersey Sports Personality of the Year was awarded to sailor Phil Sharp.
Becky’s team, Leicester Ladies’, were crowned national champions in the 2005/06 season by winning the Slazenger English Hockey lead for the second consecutive season.
www.bbc.co.uk /jersey/content/articles/2006/12/13/bbcjsy_sports_personality_winner_feature.shtml   (970 words)

  
 Sports Stories - Jonny Wilkinson awarded BBC Sports Personality
England’s rugby hero Jonny Wilkinson has added the BBC Sports Personality of the year award to his ever-growing collection of accolades.
To most it came as no surprise that he was the most likely candidate to pick up the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the year award for 2003.
The sporting year has very much been centred around Rugby for a change and the results in the polls proved it as Jonny teammate and team captain Martin Johnson trailed just behind in second place.
www.nightimeuk.com /pubindex/9980148749094.html   (342 words)

  
 Sports Team Fund Raiser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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missourisports.usamsoc.com /sportsteamfundraiser.html   (927 words)

  
 FA's new man 'hates United and all they stand for,' says Dyke | News | Guardian Unlimited Football
The revelations were made yesterday by Greg Dyke, the former director general of the BBC, where Barwick was once deputy head of sport.
However, Dyke all but confirmed Ferguson's long-held suspicion that Barwick, a Liverpool supporter, was responsible for United never winning the BBC Sports Personality of the Year team award after their Double seasons in 1994 and 1996.
So when it came to choosing the team of the year it was the first time for many years that Brian hadn't been involved.
football.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/0,1563,1373294,00.html   (601 words)

  
 television BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2003 Evening Standard (London) - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It's now 50 years since sports stars first shifted uncomfortably in their ill-fitting suits under the studio lights and viewers sat contentedly in armchairs to soak up the best of the sporting year.
True, in a good year, there's a World Cup or Olympics as light relief, but as the biggest event of 2003 was the European Athletics Championships where we won no gold this was not a good year.
And the real irony this year is that England won the rugby World Cup, so the team award is a given, while Jonny Wilkinson (left) has to be a sure-fire favourite for the big prize.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20031211/ai_n12070315   (564 words)

  
 University of Exeter Athletic Union - Home
Former Exeter University student, and grandaughter to the Queen, Zara Phillips last week won the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award 2006 for her successes in the World of Horse Riding.
Her fantastic 2 years started back in 2005, when she won individual and team gold at the European Eventing Championships and carried on in 2006 when she won the individual gold at the World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany.
Her mother, the Princess Royal, won the award in 1971 and it marked the first time that two members of the same family have won the award.
au.ex.ac.uk   (185 words)

  
 Indiantelevision.com > News Headlines > Warne is BBC's Overseas Sports Personality of the Year
MUMBAI: Australian cricketer Shane Warne who is considered by some to be the best leg spinner of all time has been awarded the accolade of BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year 2005.
At the awards show which aired a few nights ago on BBC One, Warne received the award live from Australia.
Warne's contribution to cricket ensured he was the final choice of the judging panel, which included journalists and former sporting heroes.
www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k5/dec/dec155.htm   (159 words)

  
 adidas athletes
He is only the third kicker to win the 'Golden Boot' award by reaching 1,000 points in the Zurich Premiership.
His playing style is very uncompromising and physical for a player of his size, he is renowned as one of the hardest tacklers in the England team.
Self-critical to the point of obsession, he concerns himself solely with playing the perfect game of rugby which in his position on the pitch is next to impossible - but that’s the point, at times he is aiming at the impossible.
www.adidas.com /athlete/jonny_wilkinson.asp   (595 words)

  
 RTÉ.ie Sport - Best to receive BBC 'Lifetime' award
George Best will be honoured with the 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in recognition of his impact on the world of football.
The Northern Ireland international was the first international footballing superstar, winning the European Cup with Manchester United and being nicknamed The Fifth Beatle.
Best won the Footballer of the Year award in 1968 together with the European Player of the Year trophy.
www.rte.ie /sport/2002/1202/bestg.html   (175 words)

  
 Bid to rig BBC sport award - www.theage.com.au
Irish and Australian sport fans have joined forces in an internet campaign to ensure England Rugby World Cup hero Jonny Wilkinson does not win the BBC's sports personality of the year award.
Wilkinson is a certainty for the award, to be announced on December 14.
The BBC said this was the second attempt it had uncovered to rig the result of this year's poll by multiple voting.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/12/03/1070351648664.html   (254 words)

  
 Cricinfo - Flintoff named BBC Sports Personality of the Year
He becomes the first cricketer since Ian Botham in 1981 to win the award which is picked by the British public.
He thanked the support of his team-mates, family and management team and was joined in a live link to London by Shane Warne, who had earlier won the Overseas Personality award.
The Ashes success dominated the evening as the England side won the team award, which was accepted by Michael Vaughan after his early return from Pakistan with his knee injury.
content-usa.cricinfo.com /england/content/story/229298.html   (336 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | TV/Radio Listings | Sports Personality | Thanks for voting!
Sports Personality of the Year, BBC One, December 12
A shortlist of contenders will be announced during the Sports Review of the Year Show on BBC One on Sunday (2000-2215 GMT).
Several other awards will also be presented including Overseas Personality and Coach of the Year.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sports_personality_2004/4020389.stm   (138 words)

  
 Pele
Born in Tres Coracoes, Minoas Gerias, Brazil, Pele was discovered at the age of 11 and a few years later was brought to Sao Paulo to play for Santos.
Pele won the FIFA award for Best Soccer Player of the Twentieth Century, and was appointed UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 1994.
Pele was given a lifetime achievement award in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards, 2005.
www.biogs.com /famous/pele.html   (336 words)

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