The 2014 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, took place on 14 December at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow. It was the 61st presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. Awarded annually by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the main award honours an individual's British sporting achievement over the past year, with the winner selected by public vote from a ten-person shortlist. Lewis Hamilton won the main award.
The event was presented by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan.
Basis of nominations
For 2014, the BBC introduced an expert panel who were asked to devise a shortlist that reflected UK sporting achievements on the national and/or international stage, represented the breadth and depth of UK sports and took into account "impact" within and beyond the sport or sporting achievement in question. The 2014 panel was announced on 22 October 2014. The panel members were:
Rebecca Adlington: Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer
Denise Lewis: Olympic gold medal-winning athlete
Jason Roberts: former professional footballer
Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson: Paralympic gold medal-winning athlete
Mike Dunn: sports editor of The Independent and Evening Standard newspapers
Howard Wheatcroft: Express Newspapers head of sport
Alex Butler: sports editor of the Sunday Times newspaper
Alison Mitchell: freelance sports broadcaster and journalist
Louise Martin: chair of SportScotland
Barbara Slater: Director of BBC Sport
Philip Bernie: head of BBC TV sport
Carl Doran; executive editor, BBC Sports Personality of the Year
Nominees
The shortlist of ten contenders was announced during BBC One's The One Show on 24 November and on the BBC website. Early favourites for the award included Rory McIlroy and Lewis Hamilton.
Other awards
In addition to the main award as "Sports Personality of the Year", several other awards were also announced: