England football star Beth Mead wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022
Arsenal star, 27, becomes first women's footballer to win the award
England Test cricket captain Ben Stokes second and curling's Eve Muirhead third
England women's footballers win Team of the year and Sarina Wiegman coach of the year after Euro 2022 triumph
Rugby league great Rob Burrow receives Helen Rollason award; Burrow's former team-mate Kevin Sinfield wins special award for fundraising feats
Gymnast Jessica Gadirova wins Young Sports Personality
Football volunteer Mike Alden named Unsung Hero
And here are those winning moments!
See you next year?
England's Mead is crowned Sports Personality of the Year 2022
Lionesses & Wiegman win Team of the Year & Coach of the Year
Burrow honoured with Helen Rollason award while Sinfield accepts special award
Sports Personality 2022: Community football club founder Mike Alden wins Unsung Hero award
Jessica Gadirova wins Young Sports Personality of the Year 2022
Image source, PA MediaWhat a night it was.
Here's a reminder of all of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022 award winners, with links to where you can read more about their achievements:
BBC iPlayer
Of course, if you missed any of tonight's Sports Personality of the Year awards show, or you just want to watch it all again, you'll be able to find it over on BBC iPlayer shortly.
A host of figures from the world of sport passed away in 2022.
Here, we remember some of those sporting names.
Frank Keogh
BBC Sport
England footballer Beth Mead has been talking backstage about her her Sports Personality triumph.
"I’m incredibly proud and humble. It’s not just for me, but for the rest of the girls," she said.
She was shown a video of her Arsenal team-mates cheering her victory after they beat Zurich 9-1 on Wednesday night and said: "Love that. And they brought the win home."
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England’s women’s success at this summer’s Euros means there was triple success for the Lionesses. Beth Mead winning the Sports Personality of the Year, England the Team of the Year and Coach of the Year for Sarina Wiegman.
Wiegman turned down being at her own Dutch awards tonight to be with the Lionesses and with the support staff who turned the Lionesses into winners.
And only seven months to wait until the Women’s World Cup!
Image source, BBC SportLionesses celebrate triple win
The Euro 2022 champions were named Team of the Year after their memorable triumph at Wembley and not long after that, Sarina Wiegman was announced as Coach of the Year.
Lionesses & Wiegman win Team of the Year & Coach of the Year
Here's Beth Mead shortly after being presented with her trophy. She wasn't the only member of the Lionesses to win an award of course...
Image source, PA MediaIt was an emotional night at Sports Personality of the Year.
Rugby league legend Rob Burrow was honoured with the Helen Rollason Award for his work in raising awareness for his condition, Motor Neurone Disease.
Shortly after, his ex-Leeds Rhinos team-mate Kevin Sinfield was presented with a special BBC award for his fundraising, having raised more than £7m for charity through a series of challenges since his close friend's diagnosis.
Here's that moment.
Burrow honoured with Helen Rollason award while Sinfield accepts special award
Beth Mead's Arsenal team-mates have been playing against Zurich in the Champions League tonight.
This was their reaction to her winning BBC Sports Personality of the Year award...
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Off the pitch things have been difficult this year for Beth Mead, who thanked her family in her speech.
Her mum, who Mead credits for her success, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer last year and the family found out this year that it was incurable. Mead's dad said that devastating news kick-started his daughter into action and she went on to "show the world what she can do".
Sports Personality of the Year 2022: Lionesses' Beth Mead nominated for award
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Christopher: MEADO!!! The Lionesses make it a clean sweep and this is hugely deserved - incredible performances in the Euros, and to go out there and do that when she was clearly having such a challenging year at home, phenomenal. Congrats Beth Mead.
Laura: Beth, Sarina and the Lionesses taking #BBCSPOTY award, team of the year and coach of the year. Women’s football has well and truly said we’re here to stay.
David: I was coaching girls football in the early 1990s. It was only a dream then to imagine that women’s football would make a clean sweep of the big awards on #SPOTY. Great team, great manager and great player. Role models and an inspiration to the next generation of girls.
So, England and Arsenal forward Beth Mead is the winner of BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022.
The 27-year-old becomes the first women's footballer to win the award after starring at this summer's Euro 2022, where she was named the Player of the Tournament as the Lionesses triumphed at Wembley and claimed England's first ever major women's football trophy.
England Test captain Ben Stokes finishes second, with Eve Muirhead, who led Team GB to curling gold in the Winter Olympics, third.
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Willgoose: So well deserved Beth Mead! Congratulations and you continue to be an inspiration
Jen: Beth mead winning #BBCSPOTY is a huge achievement for women in sports. Them girls changed the world and it’s amazing to see.
Steve: Glass ceilings are there to be broken. Congratulations Beth Mead, the Lionesses & Sarina Wiegman.
BBC One
Beth Mead speaking to BBC One after winning BBC Sport’s Personality of the Year award: "I’m speechless for once. I'm incredibly honoured to win this award. Wouldn't have done it without the girls. The team have backed me. Yes, I've won this accolade, I've scored a few goals but I wouldn't have done it without them.
"I wouldn’t have done it without my dad, my mum and all my family.
"This is for women's sport and women's sport heading in the right direction. Let’s keep pushing girls, let’s keep doing the right thing."
But that's all for the 69th BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards.
Here's a reminder of all of tonight's winners:
Congratulations to Beth Mead!
What a year it has been for her and the whole of the England women's football team.
"This is for women's sport," an emotional Mead concludes on BBC One.
We'll bring you her words in full shortly.
England's Euro 2022 winner Beth Mead is your 2022 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
And the winner is...
In second...
It's Ben Stokes!