BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award 2021 Odds

The Sports Personality of the Year award is set to take place on 12th December 2021 at the P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen with British tennis player Emma Raducanu coming in as favourite to win the prestigious award.

Last year, Lewis Hamilton was the winner following his seventh World Driver’s Championship win, with Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson being the runner-up having captained his side to their first-ever Premier League title, whilst female jockey Hollie Doyle finished as third having become the first-ever jockey to ride five winners on the same British card, as well as winning at Royal Ascot.

Raducanu is the bookie’s favourite at 1/10 to win the Sports Personality of the Year award having produced a stunning victory at the US Open where she became the first-ever qualifier to win a Grand Slam and the first British female tennis player to win one since 1977, seeing the 18-year-old rise to 23rd in the World Rankings.

This was a stunning achievement by Raducanu who in 10 matches at the open as a whole, didn’t drop one single set, asserting her dominance on the court in every match, including in her 6-4 and 6-3 set wins against Candian player Leylah Annie Fernandez.

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2021 turned out to be hugely successful for well-known Olympian diver Tom Daley, as he won his first World Cup gold with Matty Lee in the synchronized 10m platform at the 2021 FINA Diving World Cup which was held as an official test event for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Daley also won well a silver medal in the individual 10m platform at the European Championships which were held in Budapest.

The 27-year-old Plymouth born diver also managed to win the 2020 Olympic gold in Japan alongside Lee for the Men’s synchronized 10m platform. In August, Daley managed to qualify for the Men’s individual 10m platform diving and won a bronze medal in the process, improving on his result at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Fellow Swimming pool based Olympian Adam Peaty is also on the list of contenders for the SPOTY award, having impressed throughout the year.

The 26-year-old Uttoxeter born swimmer won the 100m breaststroke title in the British Olympics trials with a time of 57.39 seconds, before going on to win his fourth successive gold medal in both the 100m breaststroke and 50m breaststroke at the European Championships.

At the Tokyo Olympics, Peaty made history, as he became the first British swimmer to defend an Olympic title following his 100m breaststroke win in Tokyo which was Great Britain’s first gold at the games, before also winning the mixed 4 x 100 medley relay where along with Kathleen Dawson, James Guy and Anna Hopkin, they set a world record time of 3 minutes and 37.58 seconds, capping off a sensational summer for Peaty.

In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, well-known cyclist Jason Kenny achieved a feat like no other, as he became Britain’s most successful Olympian following his silver medal at the team sprint in Japan at the age of 33.

Kenny also managed to add to his tally at the Olympics with a gold medal in the keirin, going on the attack with three laps to go, pulling out a substantial lead over the rest of the field which he managed to hold onto by less than a second, effectively giving him his ninth medal and the seventh gold of his career in the Olympics.

Next up is the current holder of the SPOTY award in the shape of Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team driver, Hamilton who is currently in a battle with Red Bull driver Max Verstappen to win the 2021 F1 World Driver’s Championship for what would be an eighth time, an outright record.

Hamilton is currently the most successful driver in the sport’s history as he has won seven World Driver’s Championships, matching what looked like an unbreakable record set by Michael Schumacher back in 2004. As it stands, Hamilton has the most wins in F1 history with his most recent being his incredible comeback drive at Britain which sees him sat on 99, the Brit also has the most Pole Positions in the sport’s history too, with 101. The previous records were held by Schumacher with 91 wins and 68 pole positions.

Lewis Hamilton is priced at 20/1 to retain the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award.

Laura Kenny who is perhaps best known by her maiden name of Trott is the last person on this list of contenders for the SPOTY award.

The 29-year-old like her husband, Jason, is also a cyclist and made her name back in the 2012 Olympics in London, as well as in Rio in 2016 by winning gold at each of the Team Pursuits events, as well as in the Omnium.

At the 2020 Olympic Games Kenny was part of the team that finished as silver medalists in the Team Pursuit, as Germany broke the world record twice on their way to taking gold. Kenny and Katie Archibald did, however, become the first-ever Olympic champions in the women’s Madison, having dominated this event, winning 10 out of 12 sprints and gaining a lap on the rest of the field with 20 laps to go, which saw the duo finish on 78 points, more than double the score of Denmark who earned the silver medal.