Champions League, La Liga, Spanish Super Cup, European Championships final. All in one year. At the age of 21.

Jude Bellingham is your next Sports Personality of the Year contender!

Jude Bellingham was named La Liga player of the season as Real Madrid won the title, contributing 19 goals, making him Real's all-time top English goalscorer in just his first season at the club.

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Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 at Wembley in June to win the Champions League, with Bellingham providing the assist for Vinicius Jr to score Real's second. He was named Champions League young player of the season.

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Less than a month later, Bellingham was England's saviour against Slovakia when, with the Three Lions just seconds away from an embarrassing Euro 2024 last-16 exit, he produced a moment of genius. Bellingham's stunning overhead kick took the game to extra time, when Harry Kane scored a first-minute penalty to secure a 2-1 win for England, and the Three Lions reached the final, where they lost to Spain.

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That leads us nicely onto our next Sport Personality of the Year contender, Jude Bellingham.

In his debut season at the Bernabeu, Bellingham helped Real Madrid win La Liga and the Champions League, contributing a remarkable 23 goals in all competitions.

The midfielder also scored twice on England's route to the Euro 2024 final, including a spectacular overhead kick against Slovakia.

"As a proud Englishman, it has been the honour of my life to play for and to manage England. It has meant everything to me, and I have given it my all. But it's time for change, and for a new chapter." – Gareth Southgate after resigning from his role as England manager following the Three Lions' Euro 2024 defeat by Spain.

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Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer

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England’s hopes of ending a 58-year wait for a major men’s trophy suffered another bitter disappointment in 2024 as they fell short at the final hurdle in the European Championship for the second successive tournament, losing 2-1 to Spain in Berlin. It prompted the resignation of manager Gareth Southgate, who led England to those finals and a World Cup semi-final in his eight-year reign, ushering in the arrival of German Thomas Tuchel.

Manchester City once again reigned supreme domestically with an historic fourth successive Premier League title, although Pep Guardiola’s newly-crowned champions lost the FA Cup Final to Manchester United at Wembley.

There was a changing of the managerial guard in the Premier League as Jurgen Klopp decided to leave Liverpool after nine years at Anfield, during which he gathered an impressive collection of major honours, including the Champions League and the club’s first title in 30 years. He was replaced by former Feyenoord coach Arne Slot, who has made a spectacular start to take Liverpool to the Premier League summit.

The FA Cup win was the last hurrah for Manchester United manager Erik ten Haag, whose summer reprieve after that triumph was brief and expensive. He was sacked in October and succeeded by Ruben Amorim.

If Euro 2024 brought heartbreak for Jude Bellingham, there was glory elsewhere for the 21-year-old as he won the Champions League and La Liga in a spectacular first season at Real Madrid. He was also named La Liga’s Player Of The Season after scoring 19 goals in Real’s title win.

6 – The number of players who each scored three goals at Euro 2024, resulting in a six–way tie for the Golden Boot. Harry Kane, Dani Olmo, Jamal Musiala, Georges Mikautadze, Cody Gakpo and Ivan Schranz all scored three goals at the tournament in Germany.

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Coral Barry
BBC Sport boxing reporter

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Six new British world champions were crowned in 2024 including probable frontrunner for British fighter of the year and IBF champion Daniel Dubois.

The towering heavyweight's brilliant knockout of former unified champion Anthony Joshua in front of 80,000 plus at Wembley stadium in September will go down as another passing of the torch moment as a potentially new era of heavyweight boxing was ushered in.

In May, Lauren Price made history as Wales' first female boxing world champion and the Olympic champion continues to look almost unbeatable whenever she steps in the ring.

Over 100m people might have watched Jake Paul's farcical fight with Mike Tyson on Netflix in November, but the biggest fight of the year between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk actually delivered on all its promise.

Morecombe's Fury might have suffered his first loss, but the Gypsy King has the chance to enact immediate revenge on 21 December.

Paul Battison
BBC Sport MMA reporter

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In mixed martial arts Manchester’s Dakota Ditcheva was the standout athlete this year, becoming the first British woman to win a world title in the sport.

The 26-year-old fought and won four times, crowning 2024 with her win over Taila Santos last month for the PFL flyweight title and $1m (£790,000).

Elsewhere, fellow Mancunian Tom Aspinall knocked out Curtis Blaydes to retain his UFC interim heavyweight title in July.

The 31-year-old is targeting champion Jon Jones next year, in a heavyweight unification bout UFC president Dana White says would be the biggest in the promotion’s history.

Fellow Britons Lerone Murphy, Paddy Pimblett, Oban Elliott and Mick Parkin also enjoyed successful 2024's, maintaining the unbeaten start to their UFC careers.

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Armand Duplantis, more commonly known as Mondo, is regarded as the greatest pole vaulter of all time and enjoyed another record-breaking year in 2024.

The 25-year-old retained his Olympic title in Paris, becoming the first back-to-back Olympic champion in men's pole vault since the 1950s.

In doing so, he broke the Olympic record and the world record - the latter for the ninth time in his career, and second this year.

He went on to break the world record again later in August, setting a new best of 6.26m at the Diamond League meeting in Silesia, and also won a second world indoor title and third European gold in 2024.

You have named Armand Duplantis as your World Sport Star winner!

The Olympic and world champion had the globe mesmerised as he broke the world pole vault record in Paris then did it again later that month!

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Now it's time to see who you have voted as World Sport Star of the Year, following in the footsteps of 2022 winner Lionel Messi.

Will it be Simone Biles (Gymnastics), Caitlin Clark (Basketball), Catherine Debrunner (Paraathletics), Armand Duplantis (Athletics), Sifan Hassan (Athletics) or Leon Marchand (Swimming)?

A reminder to cast your 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

Frank Keogh
BBC Sport darts reporter

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It was a tale of two Lukes as darts enjoyed a surge in popularity.

Luke Humphries won his first PDC World Championship in January with a record TV audience watching his thrilling 7-4 defeat of teenage prodigy Luke Littler in the final at Alexandra Palace.

Humphreys also claimed the World Matchplay title and defeated Littler again to defend his Players Championship crown.

Littler got the better of his fellow Englishman to land the Premier League aged just 17 in a dazzling debut season which saw him lift 10 titles in all and raise the sport's profile.

The pair each won more than £1m in prize money but didn't have it all their own way, with two big upsets - Ritchie Edhouse claimed the European Championship and Mike de Decker won the World Grand Prix. Meanwhile, Beau Greaves took the WDF women's world title for the third year running.

Luke the Nuke...

Luke Littler is your next BBC Sports Personality of the Year contender!

Luke Littler burst on to the scene on his World Darts Championship debut, beating players of the calibre of five-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld and Rob Cross en route to becoming the youngest player to reach the tournament's final, aged 16 years and 347 days.

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Though Littler lost the World Championship final to Luke Humphries, he won £200,000 for finishing second - part of £1m prize money in his first year as a professional - and became a media sensation.

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In November, Littler won the Grand Slam of Darts for his first major ranking title. He thrashed qualifier Martin Lukeman 16-3 in the final in Wolverhampton, and moved to fifth place in the PDC's Order of Merit, having been ranked 164 a year previously.

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Teenage sensation Luke Littler catapulted himself to stardom on a fairytale run to the PDC World Championship final and has gone on to claim 10 trophies, including becoming the youngest winner of a major PDC tournament with victory in the Premier League Darts, and also triumphed at the prestigious Grand Slam of Darts.

Here is Dr Mark Prince's story...

Dr Mark Prince, a former champion boxer, created the Kiyan Prince Foundation to keep young people away from knife crime through boxing.

The foundation is named after Prince's son Kiyan, an academy footballer who was stabbed to death outside his school's gates in 2006.

Prince had a tough start to life, finding himself on the streets and becoming involved in crime and drugs.

He turned his life around through boxing and the discipline it brought him, culminating in him winning the WBO intercontinental light-heavyweight title in September 1997.

Prince created the Kiyan Prince Foundation, which has reached more than 100,000 children through its programmes, life coaching and motivational talks.

He was made an OBE in the 2019 New Year's Honours list for his work to combat knife crime.

Dr Mark Prince, founder of the Kiyan Prince Foundation, has been honoured with this year's Helen Rollason Award!

It's time for our first award of the evening to be presented – the Helen Rollason Award.

It was introduced to the show in 1999 in memory of the BBC Sport journalist and presenter, who died of cancer that year at the age of 43.

This award, celebrating its 25th year, recognises outstanding achievement in the face of adversity.