Olympic champions Alex Yee and Keely Hodgkinson nominated for 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year
The nominees for the British sports award have been announced, including two Olympic champions, Paralympic legend Sarah Storey and Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham.
British Olympic champions Alex Yee and Keely Hodgkinson are among the nominees for the 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
The Paris 2024 gold medallists are on the six-strong shortlist for the BBC’s annual sports accolade, which this year celebrates its 70th anniversary.
Yee won the men’s triathlon with a stunning late surge in the final 400m to take gold. This has been the 26-year-old’s crowning year, in which he won the Olympic and world triathlon titles becoming the most decorated triathlete in the sport’s history.
Hodgkinson stormed to victory in the women’s 800m final at the Stade de France, adding to her European Championships title two months prior. It is an event the track star has dominated this year, breaking the British national record and becoming the sixth fastest woman in its history.
Also nominated for the award is Great Britain’s most decorated Paralympian Sarah Storey, who won two para-cycling gold medals in Paris to bring her Paralympic medal tally up to 30 medals.
Real Madrid star Jude Bellingham is the lone football nominee, whose superb debut season for the Spanish giants saw him win LaLiga and the Champions League. The other nominees are cricket legend Joe Root and 17-year-old darts prodigy Luke Littler.
Simone Biles, Caitlin Clark headline World Sport Star of the Year award nominees
There are also four Olympians and one Paralympian nominated for the BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year award.
They include artistic gymnastics legend Simone Biles, swimming star Leon Marchand and pole vault world record holder Armand Duplantis.
Capped off by Olympic women’s marathon champion Sifan Hassan, the quartet won a combined nine gold medals at Paris 2024, while the Swiss para-athlete Catherine Debrunner won five golds alone to earn her nomination.
The only athlete nominated not to have competed at the Olympic or Paralympic Games is Caitlin Clark, the Indiana Fever basketball starlet who won the WNBA Rookie of the Year award.
The winners of the respective awards will be announced during the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year show on Tuesday, 17 December.