Postpublished at 21:52 Greenwich Mean Time 20 December 2020
Stunning performance from Celeste, this.
Hamilton wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2020
Jordan Henderson second; Hollie Doyle third
Team of the Year: Liverpool FC
Coach of the Year: Jurgen Klopp
Expert Panel special award: Marcus Rashford
Unsung Hero: Sgt Matt Ratana
Helen Rollason award: Captain Tom Moore
Captain Tom Young Unsung Hero: Tobias Weller
Young Sports Personality of the Year: Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix
World Sport Star of the Year: Khabib Nurmagomedov
Emma Sanders
Stunning performance from Celeste, this.
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Trevor D: Jurgen Klopp wins coach of the year. Totally deserved!
Marc: Well deserved Jurgen Klopp.
Jacqui Evans: Team of the year, now coach of the year, my heart's bursting with pride. Come on Jordan - let’s make it a hat-trick.
Brit Award winner Celeste will now perform a moving version of Nat King Cole’s Smile as the show remembers and pays tribute to all the sporting stars we lost in 2020.
A touching tribute to Diego Maradona and some of the 1966 heroes we have lost in football this year.
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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp speaking to BBC One: "My team deserve this, because they did an incredible job. It's a mix of talent, character, desire and the power of the club which is a big one. That all comes together and it was a great moment when we became champions.
"We want to organise a big party when it's allowed again, it could take a little while again but until then maybe we can win something else, we will see. We can't wait to see the fans again and winning this prize in Manchester is even sweeter."
Coach of the Year
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is the Coach of the Year 2020.
And now up, Coach of the Year...
Here was how Liverpool defender Andy Robertson and midfielder James Milner reacted to their title win on Match of the Day back in June.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is on stage now. He says he thinks his team deserve it and he can't wait to celebrate with the fans.
"Getting this prize in Manchester by the way makes it even sweeter."
Team of the Year
Liverpool picked up their first league title since 1990, winning the Premier League by a margin of 18 points.
They fell just short of Manchester City's 100 points record after winning 32 of their 38 games, losing just three.
Their title win was the earliest on record and the 19th league trophy in the club's successful history.
Next up... Team of the Year!
The contenders:
Liverpool FC
Exeter Chiefs
GB Para-Cycling
England Women's Rugby Union
Mercedes F1
Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid
We will find out shortly who the winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2020 is. Here's a reminder of the six contenders:
Stuart Broad (Cricket)
Hollie Doyle (Horse racing)
Tyson Fury (Boxing)
Lewis Hamilton (F1)
Jordan Henderson (Football)
Ronnie O’Sullivan (Snooker)
A few more awards to announce before then, though...
A powerful poem being performed on stage now - "Sport against prejudice".
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The results of the votes will now be counted and the winner will be announced on the show shortly.
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Lucy Ford: The amazing challenges that have been done to raise awareness for MND, especially the Kevin Sinfield '7 Marathons in 7 Days' have been inspirational.
Jane Austen: Rob Burrow...I wish you all the best...I salute you
Ash: It's only the third time this week that I've cried watching TV. What an amazing man Rob Burrows is. And everyone supporting him.
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Rugby union
Mike Henson
BBC Sport rugby union writer
2020 had its highlights: England and France going toe to toe in enthralling games at either end of the year, Exeter, pictured, clinching a European and Premiership double, Argentina overturning New Zealand to rattle the old world order.
But, overall, it has not been a vintage year for the sport. Coronavirus has hit finances hard and the close-quarters nature of the action makes rugby particularly vulnerable to further outbreaks.
How well the sport dealt with head injuries in the past has become a legal as well as moral concern, while confirmation of Saracens’ salary cap breaches put an asterisk next to the achievement of the most successful club team of the last decade.
And tactics seem to have taken a turn for the conservative.
However, the prospect of the British and Irish Lions touring world champions South Africa a little more than a month before the start of the women’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand is enough to make 2021 a year to forget all that
This part of the show is celebrating the incredible achievements of Kevin Sinfield.
The Rugby league legend ran seven marathons in seven days for charity, each in under four hours.
It was to raise funds and awareness for his friend Rob Burrow and the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
Another touching VT on Rob Burrow. Here's his story.
Rugby league
Matt Newsum
BBC rugby league commentator
Rugby league left its best until last in 2020, with a Grand Final to remember at the end of a difficult year. Jack Welsby’s ‘after the buzzer’ try, pouncing on a bouncing ball to decide it for champions St Helens against bitter rivals Wigan, was a fitting finish to the campaign.
It was raw excitement at the end of a bruising, ferocious encounter that summed up all that is good about the game in its 125th year.
The stories of Rob Burrow and Mose Masoe in continuing to battle against life-changing setbacks in their lives deserve mention, as does Kevin Sinfield for his seven marathons in support of Burrow.