01 December 2020

As it happened: Sports Personality of the Year announcement as Tyson Fury completes six nominations

Follow our live blog below to keep up to date with the nominees throughout the day

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Sports Personality of the Year nominees

That’s it. You have your six person shortlist. What do you make of it? Who do you want to win? Who is going to win?

Shortlist:

  • Lewis Hamilton
  • Stuart Broad
  • Jordan Henderson
  • Hollie Doyle
  • Ronnie O’Sullivan
  • Tyson Fury

SIXTH NOMINATION - TYSON FURY

The sixth and final nomination is… Tyson Fury

Delay

As usual, the nominee announcement is not on time. Come on One Show, get on with it…

Recap of the nominees so far

Nominees so far:

  • Lewis Hamilton
  • Stuart Broad
  • Jordan Henderson
  • Hollie Doyle
  • Ronnie O’Sullivan

Ten minute warning

Ten minutes until the final nominee is announced! Who do we think?

The Rocket to fire himself to SPOTY victory?

O’Sullivan is one of the biggest characters ever to grace the sport of snooker. He won a startling sixth world title at The Crucible this year in superb fashion and is a much deserved addition to the now five-person shortlist.

Who will be the final nominee? Come back at 7:20pm GMT to find out.

FIFTH NOMINATION - RONNIE O’SULLIVAN

The fifth nomination is six-time snooker world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan!

Seven-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan is "devastated" about this year's late venue switch (PA Archive)

Fifth nomination

Welcome back again! We ready for another nomination revelation?

Fifth nomination

The fifth nomination is scheduled for 4:45pm GMT. Guess we don’t know whether that will be the ACTUAL time it is announced, the fourth one was a little later.

Anyway, joins us back here in around 40 minutes time to find out the next sports star on the shortlist.

Hollie Doyle the history maker

Hollie Doyle made history earlier this year when she won five races in a day at Windsor. She is a record breaker, a history maker and fully deserves to be on the list.

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