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England and Arsenal guardant Beth Mead has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022.
Mead starred astatine this summer's Euro 2022, wherever she helped the Lionesses to glory astatine Wembley, England's archetypal ever large women's shot trophy.
The 27-year-old becomes the archetypal women's footballer to triumph the award.
In a nationalist vote, England Test skipper Ben Stokes was 2nd and Eve Muirhead, who led Team GB to curling golden successful the Winter Olympics, came third.
Athlete Jake Wightman, seven-time snooker satellite champion Ronnie O'Sullivan and gymnast Jessica Gadirova were besides shortlisted for the award.
Mead's stellar performances astatine Euro 2022 saw her named the Player of the Tournament arsenic good arsenic winning the Golden Boot with six goals and 5 assists.
Mead besides won the Sports Personality Team of the Year grant alongside her Lionesses team-mates portion England caput manager Sarina Wiegman won Coach of the Year.
The accolades are the latest successful a agelong database this twelvemonth wherever Mead has already been named Arsenal's subordinate of the play for 2021-22, came 2nd successful the Ballon d'Or Feminin and won BBC's Women's Footballer of the Year award.
Her planetary extremity tally for the 2021-22 run was 20 successful 19 matches, breaking Jimmy Greaves' long-standing grounds for the astir England goals successful 1 season.
More to follow.
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