2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award

The 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year was a sporting awards show and took place on 19 December 2023. Broadcast from Media City in Salford and presented by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding, Gabby Logan, and Alex Scott, the show was shown live on BBC One. During the show, seventy years of the awards will be celebrated.

Mary Earps won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, becoming the first football goalkeeper to do so. Cricketer Stuart Broad was runner-up, with heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson in third place.

Nominees
On 12 December, the nominees for the main award were announced live on BBC Breakfast.

The judging panel consisted of athletes Ellen White, Colin Jackson, Ellie Simmonds, Chris Paterson, sports journalists David Coverdale from the Daily Mail, Rob Maul from The Sun, Charlotte Harpur from The Athletic, chair of UK Sport Dame Katherine Grainger, sports broadcaster Holly Hamilton and, from BBC Sport, Director of Sport Barbara Slater, Head of Sport Content Philip Bernie, and Executive Producer of the Awards Gabby Cook.

Mary Earps won the award, becoming the seventh footballer, and the first goalkeeper to win the award. She also became the second female footballer, following in the footsteps of her teammate Beth Mead, who won the award in 2022. With Emma Raducanu's win in 2021, it also meant that the award was won by three consecutive females, for the first time since the 1960s, when Anita Lonsbrough, Dorothy Hyman and Mary Rand won it in consecutive years. Stuart Broad's second-place finish followed his teammate Ben Stokes, who had finished in the same position in the previous year. Katarina Johnson-Thompson was the first track and field athlete to reach the top three since Dina Asher-Smith in 2019, and the first heptathlete since Jessica Ennis-Hill in 2015.

1984 winners Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean presented the trophies to the winners.

Young Sports Personality of the Year
On 1 December 2023, the three-person shortlist for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year was announced on Blue Peter. The shortlist of three was whittled down from a group of ten, which also included skateboarder Sky Brown, footballer Ben Doak, cyclist Cat Ferguson, gymnast Jack Jacobs, swimmer Poppy Maskill, climber Toby Roberts, and artistic swimmer Ranjuo Tomblin. The judging panel included former winners Theo Walcott, Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, rower Lauren Rowles, a Blue Peter badge winner, and representatives from BBC Sport, Youth Sports Trust and Blue Peter.

Former winner Ellie Simmonds and footballer Leah Williamson presented the award.

Unsung Hero Award
The Unsung Hero Award rewards volunteers in the local community for their work in sport's grassroots. In 7th December, the fifteen regional winners were announced.

Des Smith, who founded Sheffield Caribbean Sports Club to provide sporting opportunities for ethnic minorities and encourage community cohesion, was the overall winner. Cricketer James Anderson and athlete Dame Denise Lewis presented the award.

Helen Rollason Award
The Helen Rollason Award was presented to Fatima Whitbread. The javelin champion won the award for her campaigning for children and those in the care system, after she spent the first fourteen years of her life in a children's home. Lady Mary Peters and Colin Jackson presented Whitbread, who received a standing ovation, with the award.

World Sport Star Award
On 5 December, the six-person shortlist for the BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year Award was announced. The public vote opened on the same day, closing a week later on 12 December.

Haaland was away playing with Manchester City and so sent a recorded message to accept the award.

Lifetime Achievement Award
On 17th December, it was announced that Sir Kenny Dalglish had been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. This was for his playing and managing career, where he achieved success at Celtic F.C., Liverpool F.C. and Blackburn Rovers F.C., representing Scotland at multiple World Cups, raising money with his wife Marina for a variety of charities and leading the club and the city following the Hillsborough disaster.

Dalglish was greeted on stage by his family and former teammates and players, including Alan Hansen who presented Dalglish with the award.

Team of the Year and Coach of the Year
Both the Team of the Year Award and Coach of the Year Award marked Manchester City's treble, where they won the FA Cup, Premier League and Champions League. Kyle Walker accepted the award on behalf of the team in a pre-recorded message, whilst Pep Guardiola accepted his award in the same manner because the team were playing away.

In Memoriam

 * Sir Bobby Charlton, Football
 * John Motson, Broadcasting
 * Trevor Francis, Football
 * Just Fontaine, Football
 * Gianluca Vialli, Football
 * Vera Selby, Snooker
 * Allan Jay, Fencing
 * Tony Doyle, Cycling
 * David Watkins, Rugby League & Union
 * Peter Dixon, Rugby Union
 * Bev Risman, Rugby League & Union
 * Craig Brown, Football
 * Gordon McQueen, Football
 * Ronnie McKinnon, Football
 * Anthony Hughes, Disability Sport
 * Baroness Masham, Disability Sport
 * Gillian Matthews, Disability Sport
 * Tori Bowie, Athletics
 * John Nuttall, Athletics
 * Jim Hines, Athletics
 * Dick Fosbury, Athletics
 * Clive Rowlands, Rugby Union
 * Ken Scotland, Rugby Union
 * Brian Price, Rugby Union
 * David Duckham, Rugby Union
 * Maddy Cusack, Football
 * Chris Bart-Williams, Football
 * Christian Atsu, Football
 * Sir Michael Parkinson, Broadcasting
 * Dickie Davies, Broadcasting
 * Robert Alun Evans, Broadcasting
 * Ann Cutcliffe, Para Equestrian
 * Edward Hide, Horse Racing
 * Jim Lewis, Horse Racing
 * Sir Michael Bonallack, Golf
 * Barry Lane, Golf
 * Ivor Robson, Golf
 * Dale Reid, Golf
 * Ken Buchanan, Boxing
 * Hugh Russell, Boxing
 * Jim Brown, American Football
 * Bishan Singh Bedi, Cricket
 * David Gold, Football
 * Mohamed Al-Fayed, Football
 * Bill Kenwright, Football
 * Peter Matthews, Broadcasting
 * Mat Wayne, Broadcasting
 * Jamie Strickland, Journalism
 * Helen Smart, Swimming
 * Mike McFarlane, Athletics
 * Jim Fox, Modern Pentathlon
 * Syd Millar, Rugby Union
 * Adam Johnson, Ice Hockey
 * Bernard Ford, Ice Skating
 * Francis Lee, Football
 * Ronnie Rees, Football
 * John Hollins, Football
 * Terry Venables, Football