{"id":186350,"date":"2025-12-11T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/186350\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:32:08","slug":"sports-personality-of-the-year-2025-nominees-hampton-kelly-kildunne-littler-mcilroy-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/186350\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Personality of the Year 2025 nominees: Hampton, Kelly, Kildunne, Littler, McIlroy, Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"

A shortlist of six contenders has been announced for the 2025 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.<\/p>\n

England footballers Hannah Hampton and Chloe Kelly, rugby union player Ellie Kildunne, darts player Luke Littler, golfer Rory McIlroy and Formula 1 driver Lando Norris are the nominees.<\/p>\n

Voting will take place during the show on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer on Thursday, 18 December<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The programme – presented by Gabby Logan, Alex Scott and Clare Balding, and broadcast live from MediaCityUK in Salford – will celebrate 12 months of incredible sporting action.<\/p>\n

Alex Kay-Jelski, director of BBC Sport, said: “This has been a breathtaking year for sport, driven by athletes whose performances belong in the history books. <\/p>\n

“Each one has delivered moments of pure brilliance that have defined 2025. <\/p>\n

“It’s been incredible to watch, and I can’t wait to honour their achievements, and to see who the nation chooses as the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2025.”<\/p>\n

The public can vote online on the night for the main award, with full details announced during the show.<\/p>\n

The Team of the Year award will also be decided by a public vote, with contenders to be announced later in the month.<\/p>\n

Other prizes awarded on the night include Young Sports Personality of the Year, Coach of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and the Helen Rollason Award.<\/p>\n

The World Sport Star award, for which voting is open,<\/a> will also be presented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shortlist of six contenders has been announced for the 2025 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-186350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}