BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022 - LIVE!
England star Beth Mead has been named BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022. The 27-year-old was a huge favourite to pick up the award, after winning the Golden Boot and being named Player of the Tournament at Euro 2022, and did just that.
“I’m speechless for once,” she said. “I’m incredibly honoured to win this award. Wouldn’t have done it without the girls. “This is for women’s sport and women’s sport heading in the right direction. Let’s keep pushing girls, let’s keep doing the right thing.”
Ben Stokes, after his T20 World Cup heroics and influence on transforming the England Test side, came second, with Eve Muirhead, who won curling at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, third. Jessica Gadirova, who was also shortlisted for the main award, was named Young Sports Personality of the Year. Sarina Wiegman picked up Coach of the Year, while the Helen Rollason Award, “for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity”, went to Rob Burrow.
