The nominees for the 2022 BBC Sports Personality of the Year have been confirmed.
The six nominees have been revealed, with England footballer Beth Mead the favorite to succeed tennis star Emma Raducanu.
Mead, who’s the bookmakers’ heavy favorite for the award, is joined on the shortlist by England cricket captain Ben Stokes, snooker star Ronnie O’Sullivan, gymnast Jessica Gadirova, roller Eve Muirhead and runner Jake Wightman.
The winner will probably be introduced throughout the stay present on BBC One on Wednesday.
It has already been introduced that eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt will obtain the Lifetime Achievement award whereas Argentina captain Lionel Messi is the World Sport Star of the Year following his World Cup-winning heroics in Qatar.
Here we take a more in-depth take a look at these in the operating for the prime prize.
Jessica Gadirova
Jessica Gadirova celebrates world gymnastics gold on the flooring together with her sister Jennifer
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The 18-year-old gymnast has had a stellar 2022, capped by changing into solely the fifth British athlete to win a person world title in inventive gymnastics.
Gadirova achieved that together with her flooring routine in Liverpool in November having beforehand claimed workforce silver and all-around bronze.
A workforce bronze medallist at the Olympics final summer time, Gadirova additionally retained her European flooring title.
Beth Mead
Beth Mead was the Golden Boot winner and participant of the match at Euro 2022
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The Lionesses will determine prominently in the BBC One present and it will be an enormous shock if Mead doesn’t stroll away with the foremost prize.
The Arsenal ahead was named participant of the match in England’s Euro 2022 success and likewise received the Golden Boot after scoring six targets, and including 5 assists.
Her worldwide tally for the season of 20 targets was a brand new England report.
Eve Muirhead
Eve Muirhead guided Team GB to gold in Beijing
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A tough Winter Olympics in Beijing for Britain had a golden ending as skip Muirhead led her curling rink to glory.
The GB girls solely simply made it by way of the round-robin stage earlier than edging previous Sweden after which romping to a remaining win over Japan.
Muirhead accomplished her assortment of main titles with gold at the World Mixed Doubles Championship earlier than asserting her retirement.
Ronnie O’Sullivan
Ronnie O’Sullivan received his seventh world title earlier this 12 months
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Snooker’s greatest star claimed his seventh World Championship title in 2022 with an 18-13 win over Judd Trump, equalling Stephen Hendry’s report and changing into the oldest winner of the crown at 46.
O’Sullivan is ranked world primary and likewise received the Champion of Champions and Hong Kong Masters titles this 12 months. He has by no means received the SPOTY title.
Ben Stokes
Ben Stokes has helped flip England’s Test workforce round and received a T20 World Cup
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Stokes was voted Sports Personality of the Year in 2019 and is in the operating once more after a massively profitable 12 months.
He guided England to the T20 World Cup, holding his nerve underneath enormous stress, and has overseen three Test collection victories since being appointed captain in April.
On Tuesday, he helped England write historical past by changing into the first workforce to win 3-0 in Pakistan.
Jake Wightman
Jake Wightman received World Championship gold
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Wightman produced a shocking run at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon in July to turn into Britain’s first 1,500 metres champion for practically 40 years, along with his father Geoff commentating on the race in the stadium.
The Scot accomplished his set of medals at the different main championships over the summer time, taking European silver and Commonwealth bronze.
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