Sports Personality of the Year shortlist announced

A shortlist of six contenders has been announced for the 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

Footballer Jude Bellingham, runner Keely Hodgkinson, darts subordinate Luke Littler, cricketer Joe Root, Para-cyclist Sarah Storey and triathlete Alex Yee are the nominees.

Voting volition instrumentality spot during the amusement connected BBC One and the BBC iPlayer connected Tuesday, 17 December.

The programme - presented by Gabby Logan, Alex Scott and Clare Balding, and broadcast unrecorded from MediaCityUK successful Salford - volition observe 12 months of unthinkable sporting action.

Alex Kay-Jelski, manager of BBC Sport, said: "It's a fantastic shortlist. All six person kept america connected the borderline of our seats this year, showing america however sensational they are.

"I'm looking guardant to reliving each of their successes connected the nighttime and uncovering retired who audiences privation to beryllium crowned BBC Sport Personality of the Year 2024."

The nationalist tin ballot by telephone oregon online connected the nighttime for the main award, with afloat details announced during the show.

Other awards to beryllium announced see Young Sports Personality of the Year, Team and Coach of the Year, Unsung Hero and the Helen Rollason Award.

The Lifetime Achievement and World Sport Star awards volition besides beryllium presented.

Voting for the World Sport Star grant is inactive open, but volition adjacent astatine 10:00 GMT connected Tuesday, 10 December.

Age: 21 Sport: Football

In his debut play astatine the Bernabeu, Bellingham helped Real Madrid triumph La Liga and the Champions League, contributing a singular 23 goals successful each competitions.

The midfielder besides scored doubly connected England's way to the Euro 2024 final, including a spectacular overhead footwear against Slovakia.

Those exploits meant helium finished 3rd successful the Ballon d'Or voting - the highest presumption by an Englishman since Frank Lampard came 2nd successful 2005.

He was named La Liga subordinate of the play and Champions League young subordinate of the play arsenic good arsenic collecting the Laureus satellite breakthrough of the twelvemonth award.

Age: 22 Sport: Athletics

Hodgkinson ended her hold for a large planetary rubric successful stunning manner by claiming 800m golden astatine the Paris Olympics.

After a bid of near-misses, including silvers astatine the Tokyo Games and astatine the past 2 World Championships, she was not to beryllium denied again and ran retired a ascendant victor astatine the Stade de France.

It was Team GB's archetypal Olympic way rubric since Mo Farah's 5,000m and 10,000m treble successful Rio successful 2016, and made Hodgkinson lone the 10th British pistillate to triumph an athletics golden astatine an Olympics.

Earlier successful the twelvemonth she retained her 800m rubric astatine the European Championships.

Age: 17 Sport: Darts

Littler catapulted himself to stardom connected a fairytale tally to the PDC World Championship final.

Just months aft finishing his GCSEs, and ranked a lowly 164th successful the world, the past 16-year-old broke a big of records en way to reaching the final.

He has gone connected to assertion 10 trophies, including becoming the youngest victor of a large PDC tourney with triumph successful the Premier League Darts, and besides triumphed astatine the prestigious Grand Slam of Darts.

His net for the twelvemonth person surpassed £1m and helium is besides connected way to interruption the grounds for the astir 180s successful a season.

Age: 33 Sport: Cricket

Root made past successful October by becoming England's grounds Test tally scorer, surpassing Sir Alastair Cook's people of 12,472 en way to a superb career-best people of 262 against Pakistan.

In that aforesaid Test helium and Harry Brook acceptable an England grounds concern of 454, and successful August's 2nd Test against Sri Lanka, Root besides broke Cook's grounds for the astir Test centuries by an Englishman.

He is present 5th connected the all-time database of Test tally scorers and became the archetypal Englishman to surpass 20,000 planetary runs crossed formats.

Root - astatine the clip of penning - had scored the astir Test runs of immoderate subordinate successful 2024.

Age: 47 Sport: Para-cycling

Britain's astir palmy Paralympian added 2 much golden medals to her unthinkable postulation arsenic she won the C4-C5 roadworthy contention and C5 roadworthy clip proceedings astatine the Paris Games.

They extended her British grounds tally of Paralympic vocation medals to 30, 19 of which are golds, and came 32 years aft her archetypal successful Para-swimming successful 1992.

Storey's occurrence continued astatine the Road and Para-cycling World Championships arsenic she again won the treble of the C4-C5 roadworthy contention and C5 roadworthy clip proceedings titles for a singular 10th clip to summation her haul of satellite golds to 39.

Age: 26 Sport: Triathlon

Yee enjoyed a spectacular 2024 successful which helium was crowned some Olympic and satellite champion.

In Paris helium produced a stunning and memorable decorativeness to overtake New Zealand's Hayden Wilde successful the closing stages of the tally to triumph his archetypal idiosyncratic Olympic gold, and helium was besides portion of the Great Britain squad that won bronze successful the mixed relay.

Yee's dominance extended to the World Triathlon Series with victories successful Cagliari and Weihai helping him assertion the archetypal satellite rubric of his vocation aft a succession of near-misses successful caller years.

The judging sheet for this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year came from the satellite of sport, broadcasting and journalism.

It included five-time Olympic cycling champion Dame Laura Kenny, ex-runner Iwan Thomas, Paralympian Ade Adepitan, erstwhile Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha and Ireland rugby seasoned Rory Best.

Broadcaster Eilidh Barbour was joined by sports journalists Laura Williamson (The Athletic) and Eleanor Crooks (PA Media), arsenic good arsenic Stephanie Hilborne - CEO of Women successful Sport.

Representing the BBC were manager of athletics Alex Kay-Jelski, caput of athletics contented Philip Bernie and enforcement shaper Gabby Cook.