Tomorrow the UK celebrates a year of sporting phenomena at the annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards.
The awards will be shown on BBC One from 18:50 – 21:00 (GMT).
Top award of the night is the 2015 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. There are 12 finalists: Lizzie Armitstead, Lucy Bronze, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah, Chris Froome, Tyson Fury, Lewis Hamilton, Andy Murray, Adam Peaty, Greg Rutherford, Max Whitlock and Kevin Sinfield.
To get you all excited, here’s a look at the three inspirational sportswomen who have been shortlisted for the 2015 award.
Jessica Ennis-Hill
Age: 29 Sport: Athletics
Jessica Ennis-Hill is the national sweetheart of British athletics and has now deservedly been honoured with a new nickname: the Come-back Queen!
In August, Ennis-Hill won her second world heptathlon title at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing. This was only 13 months after the birth of her son Reggie.
The IAAF World Championships in Beijing was the first major competition that Ennis-Hill entered in three years, and yet she came away as the world champion – talk about a sporting superstar!
The heptathlon consists of seven track and field events: 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200m, long jump, javelin throw and 800m.
This is the fourth time the heptathlete has been nominated for a BBC SPOTY award. Her previous record is: 2nd (2012), 3rd (2010) and 3rd (2009).
#InTheNews:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/34032016
Lizzie Armitstead
Age: 26 Sport: Cycling
Lizzie Armitstead is a champion of British cycling.
She became the 2015 World Road Race Champion after a tough 130km race in Richmond, Virginia, where she out-sprinted Anna Van Der Breggen (Netherlands) to gain victory by just one wheel.
Armitstead also won a second successive Road World Cup and claimed the British title.
2015 was a truly stunning year for the 26 year-old and has catapulted the cyclist into the starlight of British cycling.
This is her first nomination as BBC Sports Personality.
#InTheNews:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/34371510
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/sep/26/lizzie-armitstead-cycling-world-champion-nicole-cooke
Age: 24 Sport: Football
Lucy Bronze is one of our fiercely competitive and talented lionesses!
She played an important part in the most successful England football campaign ever, helping them to reach a record third-placed finish at the Women’s World Cup in Canada.
The Man City defender was shortlisted for the Golden Ball player of the tournament award. One of her two goals was nominated for goal of the tournament:
Bronze is the first female footballer ever to be shortlisted for a BBC SPOTY award.
#InTheNews:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/06/lucy-bronze-england-women-football-world-cup
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