Who won Sports Personality of the Year 2023 and the other award winners

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Mary Earps celebrates winning BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award during the 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year AwardsImage source, PA Media
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Earps is the second women's footballer in succession to win the award after Beth Mead in 2022

Who were the winners at this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards?

Sports Personality of the Year

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Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Mary Earps wins award

Name: Mary Earps

Sport: Football

Key achievement: Earps, 30, was England's standout player as they reached a first Women's World Cup final in the summer and was given the Golden Glove for the best goalkeeper at the tournament.

The Fifa Best Women's Goalkeeper played every minute of the Lionesses' seven World Cup matches, conceding only four goals and keeping three clean sheets as well as saving a penalty in the final, which England lost 1-0 to Spain.

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Team of the Year

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Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Kyle Walker accepts Manchester City's Team of the Year award

Name: Manchester City

Sport: Football

Key achievement: Manchester City became just the second English club to win a continental Treble after neighbours Manchester United in 1998-99.

The team won their third successive Premier League title with three games to spare before going on to beat rivals United in the FA Cup final.

City were then crowned Champions League winners for the first time with a 1-0 victory over Inter Milan in the final in Istanbul.

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Coach of the Year

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Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Manchester City's Pep Guardiola wins Coach of the Year

Name: Pep Guardiola

Sport: Football

Key achievement: Manchester City boss Guardiola became the only manager to have secured two Trebles - achieving the same feat with Barcelona in 2008-09.

The 52-year-old has led the Blues to five top-flight titles since taking charge in 2016.

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World Sport Star of the Year

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Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Manchester City's Erling Haaland wins World Sports Star award

Name: Erling Haaland

Sport: Football

Key achievement: Haaland, 23, claimed the Premier League's Golden Boot with a record 36 goals in 38 games during his first season with Manchester City.

The Norway striker scored 52 goals in all competitions - the most by a player at a Premier League club within a season - to help City win the Treble.

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Lifetime Achievement Award

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Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Lifetime Achievement winner Sir Kenny Dalglish

Name: Sir Kenny Dalglish

Sport: Football

Key achievement: Dalglish won eight league titles and three European Cups during his time as a player and manager at Liverpool after joining the club from Celtic in 1977.

He also led Blackburn Rovers to the Premiership title in 1995.

The 72-year-old is Scotland's most capped male player and joint record goalscorer with 102 appearances and 30 goals.

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Helen Rollason Award

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Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Fatima Whitbread receives Helen Rollason award

Name: Fatima Whitbread

Sport: Javelin

Key achievement: Whitbread, 62, spent the first 14 years of her life in children's homes after being abandoned as a baby.

After being fostered, she went on to break the javelin world record and win World and European Championship gold.

Whitbread now campaigns to improve the care system and ensure children in care are "seen, heard and valued".

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Unsung Hero

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Unsung Hero 2023: Sheffield Caribbean Sports Club chairman Des Smith wins award

Name: Des Smith

Sport: Multi-sport

Achievement: Des is the chairman of Sheffield Caribbean Sports Club - a safe haven for young people which offers five cricket teams and eight junior football sides as well as netball and hockey teams.

He strives to improve race relations and understanding through the club, educating people in Sheffield about the importance of the Windrush generation.

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Young Sports Personality of the Year

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Snowboarder Mia Brookes is crowned Young Sports Personality of the Year

Name: Mia Brookes

Sport: Snowboarding

Achievement: Brookes became the youngest world champion in snowboarding history when she won slopestyle gold in February, a month after turning 16.

In winning Britain's first slopestyle title, she landed the first Cab 1440 double grab in a women's event.

Competing in her first senior season, Brookes also claimed World Cup slopestyle silver at the prestigious Laax event in January and big air bronze in Chur in October.

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