2014 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award | |
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Date | 14 December 2014 |
Location | The SSE Hydro, Glasgow |
Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Hosted by |
Gary Lineker Clare Balding Gabby Logan |
Winner | Lewis Hamilton |
Official website | www |
Television/Radio coverage | |
Network | |
Runtime | 140 minutes |
The 2014 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, took place on 14 December at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow. It was the 61st presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. Awarded annually by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the main award honours an individual's British sporting achievement over the past year, with the winner selected by public vote from a ten-person shortlist. Lewis Hamilton won the main award.
The event was presented by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan.
For 2014, the BBC introduced an expert panel who were asked to devise a shortlist that reflected UK sporting achievements on the national and/or international stage, represented the breadth and depth of UK sports and took into account "impact" within and beyond the sport or sporting achievement in question. The 2014 panel was announced on 22 October 2014. The panel members were:
The shortlist of ten contenders was announced during BBC One's The One Show on 24 November and on the BBC website. Early favourites for the award included Rory McIlroy and Lewis Hamilton.
In addition to the main award as "Sports Personality of the Year", several other awards were also announced: