2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award

The 2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, held on 13 December, was the 56th presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards. Awarded annually by the BBC, the main titular award honours an individual's British sporting achievement over the past year. The winner is selected by public vote from a 10-person shortlist. Other awards presented include team, coach, and young personality of the year.

2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
Date13 December 2009
LocationSheffield Arena, Sheffield
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBBC
Hosted by
WinnerRyan Giggs
WebsiteBBC Sports Personality
Television/radio coverage
NetworkBBC One
Runtime125 minutes

Winner and nominees

The BBC Sports Personality of the Year is an annual sport award ceremony and the 2009 edition was its 56th staging. It occurred on the evening of 13 December, at the Sheffield Arena, Sheffield.[1][2] For 2009, the BBC moved the awards from the Echo Arena, Liverpool to Sheffield to try and attract more spectators.[3] It was the first time that the programme was held in Yorkshire,[4] which was broadcast live in the United Kingdom on BBC One, the BBC Sport website and BBC Radio 5 Live.[1] Sue Barker, Jake Humphrey and Gary Lineker presented the ceremony on the main stage,[5] whilst Clare Balding, Matt Dawson, John Inverdale and Stephen Parry served as the backstage radio broadcasters.[6]

Nominations for the award were conducted by a panel of 26 sport experts representing magazines and select national and regional newspapers.[7] They were asked to choose ten nominees not in preference but in alphabetical order. Had there have been a tie after the nominating process, the production team would have asked six members of a panel of former winners for their first three preferences in order. There would be three points for first, two for second and one for third. The tied nominee with the highest number of points would subsequently advance to the final ten; had there been a second tie, another vote would be conducted to move the tied participant with the highest number of first places to the shortlist.[8]

The ten nominees were announced on the BBC One programme The One Show on the evening of 30 November.[8] The list was composed of two athletes from the sport of athletics, and one each from the sports of boxing, cricket, cycling, diving, football, Formula One, gymnastics and tennis.[7] Jenson Button, the 2009 Formula One World Champion,[9] was the bookmakers' initial favourite to win the accolade, followed heptathlete world champion Jessica Ennis and cricketer Andrew Strauss.[10] In the week prior to the ceremony, the bookmakers moved footballer Ryan Giggs into contention and made him the more than likely winner during the programme.[11]

Giggs was announced as the winner with 29.40 per cent of the public vote. Button finished runner-up with 18.74 per cent of the public vote and Ennis was third with a 15.58 per cent vote share. He was the first footballer to be voted the recipient of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award since David Beckham in 2001 and the fourth in history following Michael Owen in 1998, Paul Gascoigne in 1990 and Bobby Moore in 1966.[2] The ten nominees and their 2009 achievements are described in the table below:[12]

Winner and nominees of the 2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award[13]
Nominee Sport 2009 achievement[7] Votes[2] %[14]
Ryan GiggsFootballThe 20-year veteran of Manchester United made his 800th appearance, scored his 150th goal and helped the club reach the Champions League final.151,842 29.40
Jenson ButtonFormula OneWon the World Drivers' Championship to become the tenth British Formula One World Champion.96,770 18.74
Jessica EnnisAthleticsWon heptathlon gold at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin.80,469 15.58
Mark CavendishCyclingClaimed 23 professional victories during the season, including 6 and 3 stages of the Tour de France / Giro d'Italia respectively.55,960 10.84
Beth TweddleGymnasticsWon floor gold at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.38,907 7.53
Tom DaleyDivingBecame the first British world champion (at 15 years of age) upon winning 10 metre platform gold at the FINA World Championships.36,929 7.13
Andy MurrayTennisWon six tennis tournaments in 2009, including the Miami Masters and the Montreal Masters to reach No. 2 in the world rankings. 19,936 3.86
Andrew StraussCricketCaptained the England cricket team to victory over Australia in the 2009 Ashes. 17,237 3.34
David HayeBoxingDefeated Nikolai Valuev in a "David vs. Goliath" match in Nuremberg, Germany to become the sixth WBA Heavyweight Champion in history. 13,916 2.69
Phillips IdowuAthleticsWon Britain's second gold medal of the IAAF World Championships in Berlin in the triple jump. 4,507 0.87

Other awards

Helen Rollason Award

The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award is presented to an individual "for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity."[8] The winner was chosen by BBC Sport with no public vote and the name of the recipient was revealed on the night of the ceremony.[8]

Winner of the BBC Sport Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award
Winner Sport Rationale Ref
Major Phil Packer —[lower-alpha 1] for fundraising over £1.2 million for the Help for Heroes charity, despite being paraplegic since sustaining injuries in the Iraq War. [15]

Young Sports Personality

The BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year was presented to the sportsperson under the age of 16 on 1 January 2009 for "outstanding sporting achievements".[16] The panel to decide the nominees and winner was chaired by Humphrey, and included the broadcasters Helen Skelton of Blue Peter, Ore Oduba from Sportsround, two representatives each from the Youth Sport Trust and the Sports Personality of the Year and two previous Young Sports Personality recipients in Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Kate Haywood. The panel convened on 9 November to determine the first ten nominees from a BBC and Youth Sport Trust compiled list and returned a fortnight later to choose the first three and the recipient with the seven losing nominees informed they did not make the final shortlist.[8] Tom Daley, the diver, was named the winner of the award. It was Daley's second win after his first in 2007 and he was the first person to earn the award more than once.[2]

Winner and nominees of the 2009 BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year Award[13]
Nominee Sport 2009 achievement[16]
Tom Daley Diving Became the first British world champion (at 15 years of age) upon winning 10 metre platform gold at the FINA World Championships.
Heather Watson Tennis Won the Junior US Open championship, moving her to No. 3 in the junior world rankings.
Jodie Williams Athletics Became the first girl in history to win the gold medal in both the 100 and 200 metres at the World Youth Championships.

As part of the 2009 ceremony, awards were also to be presented for:

Notes
  1. Packer raised money by rowing across the English Channel, completing the London Marathon and climbing.[15]

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