Young Sports Personality 2022: Brown, Gadirova & Spendolini-Sirieix on shortlist

A shortlist of 3 contenders has been named for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award.

A sheet selected 10 outstanding young radical from a longlist earlier narrowing that down to a apical three.

The victor volition beryllium announced astatine the Sports Personality show, which takes spot successful Salford connected 21 December from 18:45 GMT and volition beryllium unrecorded connected BBC One.

Sky Brown

Age: 14 Sport: Skateboarding

Achievements: X Games - gold; Dew Tour - gold.

Brown won the Young Sports Personality grant successful 2021 aft taking bronze astatine the Tokyo Olympics.

She has enjoyed different beardown year, successfully defending her X Games rubric with a trick-laden show against stiff competition.

Brown's fall-free tally included a handstand connected the vert ramp and 2 cleanable 540 spins.

She besides took golden successful Des Moines connected the Dew Tour, beating Olympic champion Sakura Yosozumi.

Jessica Gadirova

Age: 18 Sport: Gymnastics

Achievements: World Championships - golden (floor), metallic (team), bronze (all-around); European Championships - golden (floor), metallic (team).

A rising prima of British gymnastics, Gadirova claimed level golden connected the last time of the World Championships.

That was her 3rd medal astatine the lawsuit successful Liverpool having besides won metallic successful the squad lawsuit and a historical bronze successful the all-around competition.

Gadirova became the archetypal British pistillate to triumph a satellite all-around medal and lone the 5th British gymnast to beryllium an idiosyncratic satellite champion.

She besides took level golden and squad metallic astatine the European Championships.

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix

Age: 18 Sport: Diving

Achievements: Commonwealth Games - 2 golds (10m platform, 10m mixed synchro), metallic (10m synchro); European Championships - 2 golds (10m platform, 10m synchro), bronze (team); World Championships - bronze (team).

Spendolini-Sirieix, the Young Sports Personality successful 2020, enjoyed an outstanding twelvemonth arsenic she took medals astatine each 3 of the large meets.

At the World Championships, she secured bronze and was lone 1 constituent distant from a silver.

Three medals came astatine the Commonwealth Games with Team England, winning by much than 20 points successful the 10m level last and taking a 2nd golden successful the 10m mixed synchro alongside Noah Williams, positive a squad bronze.

She besides won golds astatine the European Championships successful the 10m level and 10m synchro, unneurotic with a bronze successful the squad event.

Panel decides shortlist

The judging sheet consisted of Euro 2022 victor Ellen White, Olympic champion gymnast Max Whitlock, Paralympic swimmer Ellie Robinson and representatives from Blue Peter, BBC Sport and the Youth Sport Trust.

For voting criteria connected each awards delight sojourn bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality.

The 10 athletes (including the last three) shortlisted were:

Rehan Ahmed - cricket

Ben Bartram - wheelchair tennis

Sky Brown - skateboarding

Alice Capsey - cricket

Jessica Gadirova - gymnastics

Chelsea Hudson - goalball

Rico Lewis - football

Jayda Pechova - netball

Toby Roberts - athletics climbing

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix - diving