Summary

  • Andy Murray wins the 2015 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award

  • Second: Kevin Sinfield

  • Third: Jessica Ennis-Hill

  1. Night!published at 22:05

    Right then, it's time for us to check out of here. We're off for a weekend in Worthing.

    Well done to Andy Murray and thanks for your company. It's been good.

    Stay across the BBC Sport website for plenty more reaction.

    Night!

    Andy MurrayImage source, PA
  2. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 21:58 Greenwich Mean Time 20 December 2015

    #spoty

  3. Our winnerspublished at 21:55

    Overseas Sports Personality of the Year: Dan Carter: An integral part of the New Zealand team that beat Australia 34-17 to win the World Cup in October.

    Young Sports Personality of the Year: Ellie Downie: The 16-year-old gymnast won bronze in the all-around at the European Championships to make her the first female gymnast to win an individual all-around medal for Great Britain.

    Coach of the Year award: Michael O'Neill: The Northern Ireland manager helped his country end a 30-year absence from tournament football by sealing a spot at Euro 2016 last month.

    Lifetime Achievement Award: AP McCoy: Twenty-time champion jump jockey AP McCoy, 41, who retired in April after a record-breaking career.

    Helen Rollason Award: Bailey Matthews: The eight-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, completed his first triathlon unaided.

    Sport's Unsung Hero: Damien Lindsay: The west Belfast youth football coach played a huge role in his local community in his work with the St James Swifts Football Club.

  4. Postpublished at 21:54

    I suspect the after-show party is in full swing in Belfast now. And what a night it's been. Before I leave you, let me remind you of the awards which have been dished out.

  5. Standing ovationpublished at 21:51

  6. 'A special squad'published at 21:49

    Coach of the Year Michael O'Neill: "What we have in this squad is very special, and that's down to the players. Of course it's good to go to Euro 2016 without a huge amount of expectation, but there will be expectation within the group."

  7. Around the webpublished at 21:48

  8. Bring on Riopublished at 21:47

    Disability sport - 2015 in review

    Hanna CockcroftImage source, .

    Thirteen gold medals, 32 medals in all, five world records and 24 personal bests - not a bad IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha for GB.

    London 2012 champion Hannah Cockroft won three golds in the T34 400m, 100 and 800m, while there was also success for fellow Paralympic champions Aled Davies, who triumphed in both the shot and discus, and Richard Whitehead, who set a new world record on his way to winning the T42 200m.

    Sophie Hahn's two gold medals saw her nominated on the shortlist for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.

    The team's display saw them finish fourth in the medal table, which was topped by China.   

  9. 'Nerve-wracking'published at 21:46

    2015 Sports Personality of the Year Andy Murray on the BBC Red Button: "It was great to be here and spend the evening with the guys. We all get on really well - the team spirit is something that Leon has done a great job with. It's nerve-wracking making an acceptance speech - you rarely get to be out there with so many people who you respect."

  10. Team of the Yearpublished at 21:45

    Davis Cup captain Leon Smith: "Everyone has played a part - 12 or 13 players have played over the past five years. Beating France in the quarter-finals, who had a very strong team, gave us a lot of momentum. But this journey started a long way back."

  11. Your winner, ladies and gentlemenpublished at 21:44

  12. Team Yorkshirepublished at 21:43

  13. Final resultspublished at 21:41

    The numbers are in... and there were more than one million votes cast in the 32 minutes of voting time.

    Andy Murray polled 361,446 votes followed by: Kevin Sinfield 278,353, Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898, Tyson Fury 72,330, Lewis Hamilton 48,379, Chris Froome 39,007, Mo Farah 31,311, Max Whitlock 25,925, Greg Rutherford 23,492, Lizzie Armitstead 22,356, Adam Peaty 13,738, Lucy Bronze 13,236.

  14. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 21:36 Greenwich Mean Time 20 December 2015

  15. Reactionpublished at 21:34

    SPOTY contender Max Whitlock on that piano routine: "It was a bit different. A while ago I did it on a terrace at the Houses of Parliament."

    SPOTY finalist Adam Peaty: "It's been a fantastic year. My coach tells me never to give an inch. I know what's going to happen in the Olympics and will know how to prepare for it."

  16. Tough year for judopublished at 21:34

    Judo - 2015 in review

    British Judo endured a difficult pre-Olympic year. Glasgow was controversially stripped of hosting the 2015 European Championships and no athletes were able to claim medals at the inaugural European Games or World Championships.

    Commonwealth champion Owen Livesey was one of eight GB medallists at the Glasgow European Open in October and London 2012 silver medallist Gemma Gibbons boosted her prospects with a history-making and moral boosting Grand Slam bronze in Tokyo earlier this month.

    Olympic places will be secured via World rankings at the end of May.

  17. Postpublished at 21:33

    Shouldn't you be picking your Apprentice winner, Lord Sugar?

  18. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 21:31 Greenwich Mean Time 20 December 2015

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  19. 'Hugely humbling'published at 21:27

    The Team of the Year award was presented by former pentathlete and 1972 Sports Personality of the Year winner Dame Mary Peters, and Republic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill.

    Davis Cup captain Leon Smith, who was presented with the award, said: "It is hugely humbling, it is very prestigious. It has been 79 years since we last won the Davis Cup, let's hope it doesn't take another 79 years.

    "I hope what it has achieved is we get a lasting legacy for tennis."

  20. Gone with the windpublished at 21:26

    Para sailing - 2015 in review

    Helena LucasImage source, .

    Paralympic sailing champion Helena Lucas has been named as the first member of the Great Britain team for Rio 2016.

    The Southampton sailor, who turns 40 on Wednesday, is the first confirmed athlete on either the Olympic or Paralympic team.

    It will be a third Games for Lucas, who competes in the one-person 2.4mR keelboat event.

    GB athletes have currently secured more than 120 unnamed slots for Rio, across 15 sports.