BBC Sports Personality of the Year AwardFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe trophy for the main award a silver four-turret lens camera.Cyclist Bradley Wiggins, the 2012 winner.The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award is the titular award of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony, which takes place each December. The winner is the sportsperson, judged by a public vote, to have achieved the most that year. The recipient must either be British or reside and play a significant amount of their sport in the United Kingdom. The winner is selected by a public-vote from a pre-determinted shortlist.Sports Personality of the Year was created by Paul Fox, who thought of the idea while he was editor of the magazine show Sportsview. The first award ceremony took place in 1954 as part of Sportsview, and was presented by Peter Dimmock.1 For the first show, voting were sent by postcard, and rules presented in a Radio Times article stipulated that nominations were restricted to athletes who had featured on the Sportsview programme since April. Approximately 14,500 votes were cast, and Christopher Chataway beat Roger Bannister to win the inaugural BBC Sportsperson of the Year Award.2 Since then, numerous other awards have been introduced to the ceremony, which now consists of eight awards. Three people have won the award multiple times: boxer Henry Cooper and the Formula Onedrivers Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill have each won twice.3 Snooker player Steve Davis has finished in the top three a record five times.4 HRH The Princess Anne (1971) and her daughter Zara Phillips (2006) are the only pair of award-winners to be members of the same family. The oldest recipient of the award is Dai Rees, who won in 1957 aged 44. Ian Black, who won the following year, aged 17, is the youngest winner.3 Out of the fifty-seven recipients, thirteen have been female.5 Sixteen sporting disciplines have been represented; athletics has the highest representation, with seventeen recipients.Torvill and Dean, who won in 1984, are the only non-individual winners of the award. Counting them separately, there have been forty-five English winners of the award, four Scottish,6 four Welsh,7 three Irish,89 and one Manx. The most recent award wasmade in 2012 to cyclist Bradley Wiggins.Contentshide 1 Nomination procedure 2 Winnerso 2.1 By sporto 2.2 By number of accolades 3 See also 4 Notes 5 ReferencesNomination procedureeditThe shortlist is announced at the beginning of December, and the winner is determined on the night of the ceremony by a public telephone vote. Prior to 2012, a panel of thirty sports journalists each submit a list of ten contenders. From these contenders a shortlist of ten nominees was determinedcurrently, in the event of a tie at the end of the nomination process, a panel of six former award winners determines the nominee by a Borda count. However, this method was criticized following the selection of an all-male shortlist in 2011. The selection process for contenders has been changed for the 2012 (and future) awards as follows:The BBC introduced an expert panel. The panel will be asked to devise a shortlist that reflects UK sporting achievements on the national and/or international stage, represents the breadth and depth of UK sports and takes into account impact within and beyond the sport or sporting achievement in question.The 2012 panel comprised: Barbara Slater, Director of BBC Sport (Chair) The BBCs Head of TV Sport (Philip Bernie) The Executive Editor of BBC Sports Personality of the Year (Carl Doran). A representative from BBC Radio 5 Live this year, Eleanor Oldroyd. Three national newspaper sports editors (to be rotated annually) this year, Mike Dunn (The Sun), Lee Clayton (Daily Mail) and Matthew Hancock (Observer) Three former nominees (to be appointed annually) this year, Sir Steve Redgrave, Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson and Denise Lewis OBE A pan-sports broadcaster/journalist this year, Sue Mott Baroness Sue Campbell, Chair of UK Sport.In 2012, following the success of the London 2012 Olympic Games, the SPOTY shortlist was expanded to 12 contenders. 10WinnerseditBBC Sports Personality of the Year Award winnersYear Winner Sport Second Sport Third Sport Ref.BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award winnersYear Winner Sport Second Sport Third Sport Ref.1954 Christopher Chataway (ENG) Athletics Roger Bannister (ENG) Athletics Pat Smythe (ENG) Show jumping 111955 Gordon Pirie (ENG) Athletics No record 12 N/A No record 12 N/A 71956 Jim Laker (ENG) Cricket No record 12 N/A No record 12 N/A 131957 Dai Rees (WAL) Golf No record 12 N/A No record 12 N/A 71958 Ian Black (SCO) Swimming Bobby Charlton (ENG) Football Nat Lofthouse (ENG) Football 141959 John Surtees (ENG) Motorcycle racing Bobby Charlton (ENG) Football Ian Black (SCO) Swimming 15BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award winnersYear Winner Sport