BBC Sports Personality of the Year: 60 years of Welsh competition
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1957: Dai Rees (1913 - 1983) from Fontegary, Vale of Glamorgan remains the oldest recipient of the award winning Sports Review of the Year at the age of 44. He captained the Great Britain Ryder Cup team that year, defeating the United States for the first time since 1933.
1960: Show jumper David Broome was named Sportsview Personality of the Year after winning Olympic bronze on Sunsalve in Rome. It would be a long wait before there was to be another Welsh winner of the award.
1971: Barry John was third-placed behind winner HRH Princess Anne and George Best. Seen here playing against the All-Blacks at Auckland in August that year, he broke the record for points kicked for the British Lions.
1972: The following year Chepstow's Richard Meade placed third in the competition and also won BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year. He won individual gold and was a member of Britain's gold medal winning team in the three-day event at that year's Summer Olympics in Munich.
1987: Ian Woosnam, seen here playing out of the woods during the Woosnam v Lyle Final at the Wentworth Golf Club, was first in the Order of Merit and placed third in the Sports Personality awards behind winner Fatima Whitbread and Steve Davis.
1994 and 1997: Colin Jackson twice came third in the awards. In 1994 he won 110m hurdle gold at the Commonwealth Games representing Wales and set a world record for the 60m hurdles. He took silver in both the indoor and outdoor 1997 World Championships.
1998: Iwan Thomas won gold in the 400m at both the Commonwealth Games and European Championships and came third in the awards behind winner Michael Owen and runner up Denise Lewis.
2000: Tanni Grey-Thompson winning the gold medal in the women's 200m T53 final at the Paralympics Summer Games in Sydney. She came third behind Steve Redgrave and Denise Lewis and also won the BBC Wales Sports Personality award.
2007: Joe Calzaghe floors Mikkel Kessler during the super-middleweight title unification fight at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff to win by unanimous decision. He went on to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, becoming the first Welsh winner for 47 years.
2009: Ryan Giggs won the PFA Player of the Year award, made his 800th appearance for Manchester United, scored his 100th Premier League goal and was awarded BBC Sports Personality of the Year.