In third place, it's Joe Root!

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The time has come to crown your winner of BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2024.

Will it be:

• Jude Bellingham (Football)
• Keely Hodgkinson (Athletics)
• Luke Littler (Darts)
• Joe Root (Cricket)
• Sarah Storey (Para cycling)
• Alex Yee (Triathlon)

With the help of Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows, Keely Hodgkinson, 22, achieved her first global 800m title in the French capital in August.

Hodgkinson also retained her European title and became the sixth-fastest woman in history over the two-lap event with a new British record of one minute 54.61 seconds this year.

Painter and Meadows' Manchester-based M11 Track Club produced two further Olympic medals for Team GB in Paris, as Georgia Bell claimed 1500m bronze and Lewis Davey won bronze as part of the men's 4x400m relay team.

Painter previously coached wife Meadows, who won world 800m and 4x400m relay bronze medals in 2009 and world indoor 800m silver in 2010.

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Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows have won the BBC Sports Personality Coach of the Year award after guiding Keely Hodgkinson to Olympic gold at Paris 2024!

The awards are coming thick and fast now, time to get into our next one.

It's time to crown our Sports Personality Coach of the Year...

We’ve reached the part of the show over on BBC One where we take a moment to remember those in sport we lost in 2024.

A host of figures from the world of sport died this year.

Here, we remember some of those sporting names.

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Luke Littler, 17, has enjoyed a breakthrough year after finishing runner-up at the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship in January.

The Englishman is the first darts player to win the award.

The teenager became a household name at the start of 2024 following his remarkable run at Alexandra Palace - becoming the youngest player to reach the tournament's final at the age of 16 years and 347 days.

That achievement was just the start of a trophy-laden year, with Littler going on to win 10 senior PDC titles.

He is the reigning Premier League Darts, Grand Slam and World Series of Darts Finals champion.

Littler has gone from 164th to fourth in the world rankings and earned more than £1m in prize money in 2024.

Teenage darts sensation Luke Littler is the winner of Young Sports Personality of the Year 2024!

It's time to crown our next winner!

Skateboarder Sky Brown, Para-swimmer William Ellard and darts player Luke Littler have been shortlisted for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award.

A panel selected 10 outstanding young people from a longlist before narrowing that down to a top three.

Also in the top 10 were snowboarder and last year's winner Mia Brookes, cyclist Cat Ferguson, middle-distance runner Phoebe Gill, gymnast Abigail Martin, Arsenal footballer Ethan Nwaneri, para-table tennis athlete Bly Twomey and para-swimmer Iona Winnifrith.

And the winner is...

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You have had your say and we won’t have long to wait now until we discover who you have crowned this year’s winner!

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Wigan Warriors head coach Matt Peet, speaking to BBC One: "It's a great honour to receive this award - Wigan have a history with this trophy.

"The club is in good shape, we are very connected and it starts at the top with Chris the CEO.

"We want success and we have big ambition.

"We try represent the town as best we can and we look how we can help our supporters - it is a great honour and a privilege to work with these guys."

Matt Warwick
BBC Sport cycling reporter

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Mark Cavendish and Tadej Pogacar headed a year of record-breaking achievements on the bike in 2024. But any celebrations were tempered by far too many broken bones, and hearts.

Pretty much the only top male rider who wasn’t involved in an early season crash in Spain was Pogacar, who went on to win the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France, before a win at the UCI Road World Championships saw him match Eddy Merckx, Stephen Roche and Annemiek van Vleuten’s ‘triple crown’ records, of taking all three aforementioned wins in the same year.

Lotte Kopecky’s retention of the road world title was overshadowed by the tragic death of Switzerland’s Muriel Furrer, after a crash in the junior race which is still under investigation.

Many riders and leaders in the sport are concerned about “equipment getting faster and riders taking more risks”, and are calling on world governing body the UCI to act.

Add to that the UCI’s own concerns about ‘carbon rebreather’ oxygen-blood level equipment, and you have a sport once-again heading for the spotlight in 2025.

A spotlight, for once, without one of its most enduring and ferocious characters, Mark Cavendish, who finally broke Merckx’s long-standing Tour de France stage wins record to end one of elite sport’s most glittering – and noisy – careers.

35 – The number of Tour de France stages won by Sir Mark Cavendish, who broke the record for Tour stage wins in Saint Vulbas earlier this year before retiring last month.

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Sir Mark Cavendish, 39, retired earlier this year having won a record 35 Tour de France stages - the last coming in Saint Vulbas in July.

Cavendish, who is from the Isle of Man, won 165 professional races and rounded off a stellar career with victory at the Tour de France Criterium in Singapore in November.

Cavendish's roll of honour includes the road world title in 2011, 17 stages of the Giro d'Italia and three of the Vuelta a Espana.

On the track, he won omnium silver at the 2016 Olympics and was a three-time madison world champion.

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It's time for British cycling great Sir Mark Cavendish to be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award.

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Sports Personality Unsung Hero award winner Jean Paton, speaking to BBC One about the youth who take part at the Royal Yachting Association: "They are friendly and it is something they can do - it just makes them happy."

On advice to anyone who wants to support a youth club: "Go ahead and try.

"There is always a child that needs your abilities."

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You have less than 10 minutes left to vote for your Sports Personality of the Year winner and here's how to do it...

You can vote online here, by telephone or by scanning the QR code on the graphic.

In order to cast your vote online, you must sign in to your BBC account. If you do not have an account, you will need to register before you can vote.

You can only vote once and must be in the UK to vote online.

If you're calling from a mobile the number is 6 22 82 followed by the number of your favourite. From landlines call 09015 22 82 and add the number of your favourite.

The numbers to add for each contender are as follows:

• 01 - Jude Bellingham
• 02 - Keely Hodgkinson
• 03 - Luke Littler
• 04 - Joe Root
• 05 - Sarah Storey
• 06 - Alex Yee

Mike Whalley
BBC Sport rugby league reporter

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When Bevan French produced a moment of brilliance to surge through for the only try of a tense Super League Grand Final in October, he put Wigan Warriors on course for history.

Matt Peet’s side, in edging past Hull KR, became the first side in the Super League era to win all four trophies in a single season – adding the Grand Final to the World Club Challenge, Challenge Cup and League Leaders’ Shield.

History was made elsewhere too. York Valkyrie became the first team to win back-to-back Women’s Super League Grand Finals, upsetting Challenge Cup and League Leaders’ Shield winners St Helens. Leeds Rhinos completed a perfect league season by winning the Wheelchair Super League Grand Final.

England enjoyed a successful year internationally – in the end – after concerns about their struggles to get a Test programme organised. The men won a two-Test series against Samoa that made as many headlines for a pre-match confrontation during the visitors’ Siva Tau dance, while the women claimed their biggest ever win, flattening Wales 82-0.

The most emotional night of the season, unquestionably, was at Headingley on 21 June. Leeds Rhinos’ home game against Leigh became a public celebration of club and international great Rob Burrow, who had died earlier that month, aged 41, after living for several years with motor neurone disease.

His wife Lindsey and their three children received a guard of honour, video tributes played in the stadium, and fans applauded throughout the seventh minute of the match – honouring the Great Britain legend’s shirt number. It was an apt send-off for a man who was a giant on and off the rugby league field.

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All-conquering Wigan Warriors dominated rugby league throughout the year, winning every major trophy available to them.

Matt Peet's side completed the quadruple in 2024, winning the World Club Challenge, Challenge Cup, League Leaders' Shield and Grand Final.

It meant Wigan repeated the feat of their 1994 side, 30 years on, of winning every major honour over a single campaign.

Since 2022, Wigan have won seven major trophies under Peet - despite the coach taking charge of fewer than 100 games.

Wigan Warriors are the 2024 Team of the Year!

Read more here.