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All the Sports Personality 2024 award winners

Keely Hodgkinson receives her award from Clare Balding
Keely Hodgkinson became the first female athlete since 2004 to win Sports Personality of the Year [PA Media]

Full list of winners at Sports Personality of the Year 2024

Sports Personality of the Year - Keely Hodgkinson

Name: Keely Hodgkinson

Sport: Athletics

Key achievement: The 22-year-old ended her wait for a global title at Paris 2024 by winning 800m gold, having won successive world silvers since finishing runner-up on her Olympic debut in Tokyo three years ago.

Hodgkinson also retained her European 800m title in Rome and became the sixth-fastest woman of all time when she improved her British record to one minute 54.61 seconds at the London Diamond League.

Keely Hodgkinson wins Sports Personality of the Year 2024

Team of the Year - Wigan Warriors

Name: Wigan Warriors

Sport: Rugby league

Key achievement: They dominated men's rugby league throughout the year, winning every major trophy available to them.

Matt Peet's side completed the quadruple by securing the World Club Challenge, Challenge Cup, League Leaders' Shield and Grand Final.

Wigan Warriors named BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year

Coach of the Year - Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows

Names: Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows

Sport: Athletics

Key achievement: Painter and Meadows' Manchester-based M11 Track Club produced three Olympic medals for Team GB at Paris 2024 - including Keely Hodgkinson's gold in the women's 800m.

Georgia Bell claimed 1500m bronze and Lewis Davey also won bronze as part of the men's 4x400m relay team.

Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows win Coach of the Year award

World Sport Star of the Year - Armand Duplantis

Name: Armand Duplantis

Sport: Athletics

Key achievement: The 25-year-old retained his Olympic pole vault title in Paris - becoming the first back-to-back champion in men's pole vault since the 1950s.

In doing so, he broke both the Olympic and world record - the latter for the ninth time in his career, and second time this year.

He went on to break the world record again later in August, setting a new best of 6.26m at the Diamond League meeting in Silesia, and also won a second world indoor title and third European gold in 2024.

Armand Duplantis voted BBC World Sport Star of the Year

Lifetime Achievement award - Sir Mark Cavendish

Name: Sir Mark Cavendish

Sport: Cycling

Key achievement: The 39-year-old retired earlier this year having won a record 35 Tour de France stages - the last coming in Saint Vulbas in July.

Cavendish, who is from the Isle of Man, won 165 professional races and rounded off a stellar career with victory at the Tour de France Criterium in Singapore in November.

Sir Mark Cavendish wins BBC Lifetime Achievement award

Helen Rollason award - Dr Mark Prince

Name: Dr Mark Prince

Sport: Boxing

Key achievement: Prince - a former champion boxer - was honoured for his work with the Kiyan Prince Foundation, which keeps young people away from knife crime through boxing.

The foundation is named after Prince's son Kiyan - an academy footballer who was stabbed to death outside his school's gates in 2006.

Charity founder Dr Mark Prince receives Helen Rollason Award

Unsung Hero - Jean Paton

Name: Jean Paton

Sport: Sailing

Key achievement: Jean, 90, has given her time to the Salterns Sailing Club in Lymington, Hampshire, for the best part of four decades.

She is a Royal Yachting Association dinghy instructor. During her time at Salterns, Jean has helped more than 800 children learn to sail.

Volunteer Jean Paton, 90, is Sports Personality Unsung Hero

Young Sports Personality of the Year - Luke Littler

Name: Luke Littler

Sport: Darts

Key achievement: Littler, 17, has enjoyed a breakthrough year after finishing runner-up at the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship in January.

The Englishman, who has won 10 senior titles on the PDC Tour this year, is the first darts player to claim the award.

Luke Littler is Young Sports Personality of the Year