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Post by Panda on Dec 15, 2019 23:02:40 GMT 1
Ben Stokes has won this year's award, with Lewis Hamilton 2nd and Dina Asher-Smith 3rd. He's the 5th cricketer to win the award after Jim Laker in 1956, David Steele in 1975, Ian Botham in 1981 and Andrew Flintoff in 2005.
England's Cricket World Cup winning team won Team of the Year and Sporting Moment of the Year. Dina Asher-Smith's coach John Blackie won the Coach of the Year award. Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, who this year ran a marathon in under two hours was yesterday named World Sports Star of the Year, boxer Caroline Dubois won the Young Sports Personality of the Year award (presented at the Radio 1 Teen Awards) and Tanni Grey-Thompson won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
With Stokes winning this year, it means Lewis Hamilton was the only English-born winner of the SPOTY award this decade.
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Post by paulgilb on Dec 15, 2019 23:45:41 GMT 1
Stokes is in fact the first cricketer to finish in the top 3 since Flintoff's victory in 2005.
Dina Asher-Smith is the first female to finish in the top 3 since Jessica Ennis-Hill in 2015.
This is the first year with an all-English top 3 (according to their listed nationalities on Wikipedia) since 2005 (Andrew Flintoff, Ellen MacArthur, Steven Gerrard).
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