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The cream of the athletic crop are set to descend on MediaCity in Salford for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony.
England and Wales might have failed to bring home the World Cup trophy but the Brits can look back on 2022 as a decent year for their sporting prospects with new stars emerging alongside some established names.
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The key thing to remember is that the title of Sports Personality of the Year is not be taken literally. Twitter is bound to be a hellscape of yer da’s moaning that the winner has no character… just block and ignore.
You can run the rule over our BBC Sports Personality Of The Year odds on the Paddy Power website and Paddy Power app, otherwise all the key details about this year’s event can be found below.
BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2022 date and time
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year bash will be held on Wednesday, December 21 from 6:45pm.
It was originally scheduled to take place on the previous Sunday but was rearranged to avoid a clash with the World Cup final.
Gary Lineker, Clare Balding, Gabby Logan and Alex Scott will be on hosting duties for the ceremony, which will be broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2022 nominees
The BBC Sports Personality Of The Year shortlist of six nominees is headed by Euro 2022 top scorer Beth Mead, 27, who bagged six goals to help the Lionesses to victory in last summer’s tournament.
Jessica Gadirova, 18, earned her place after bagging three medals at the world gymnastic championships including floor gold, which made her the fifth Briton in history to be an individual world champ.
Eve Muirhead, 32, skippered the Great Britain women’s team to curling gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
A record-equalling seventh world snooker championship sees Ronnie O’Sullivan, 47, in with a chance of the prestigious gong.
2019 winner Ben Stokes, 31, played a key role in England’s T20 World Cup triumph before skippering the Test team to nine wins out of 10 including a 3-0 series win in Pakistan.
Jake Wightman, 28, rounds off the shortlisting having landed the 1500m gold at the world athletics championship in Oregon.
BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2022 odds
BBC Sports Personality Of The Year odds are on paddypower.com and prices for the leading contenders can be seen on our snazzy widgets below.
Beth Mead is the red-hot favourite with Paddy Power to be named BBC Sports Personality Of The Year to add to the Golden Boot and player of the tournament gong she won at the Euros.
Ben Stokes is next in our betting market as the all-rounder bids to join an elite club of multiple winners of the award.
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