BBC Sports Personality of the Year winner Ben Stokes reflected on an “awesome” 2019 and admitted: “It’s a shame 2020 has to start.”
The England all-rounder won the public vote for the prestigious prize in Aberdeen on Sunday night, with six-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton and 200 metres world champion Dina Asher-Smith second and third respectively.
Stokes enjoyed a simply sensational summer in 2019, with his unbeaten 84 helping England set up a Super Over in the World Cup final against New Zealand, in which he came out to bat again as the hosts secured their first-ever 50-over world title.
Wheelchair racer Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, an 11-time Paralympic gold medal winner and six-time London Marathon champion, received the Lifetime Achievement award.
Former Scotland rugby international Doddie Weir received the Helen Rollason award for his work in raising money to fund research into motor neurone disease.
Weir, who won 61 caps for his country, was diagnosed with the condition in 2016.
