Key Facts

In addition to the Sports Personality, Team and Overseas awards a number of different trophies have been handed out down the years.

Lifetime Achievement

2009 Seve Ballesteros (golf)
2008 Sir Bobby Charlton (football)
2007 Sir Bobby Robson (football)
2006 Bjorn Borg (tennis)
2005 Pele (football)
2004 Ian Botham (cricket)
2003 Martina Navratilova (tennis)
2002 George Best (football)
2001 Sir Alex Ferguson (football)
1997 Seve Ballesteros (golf)
1996 Frank Bruno (boxing)

Coach of the Year

2009 Fabio Capello (football)
2008 David Brailsford (cycling)
2007 Enzo Calzaghe (boxing)
2006 Daniel Anderson (rugby league)
2005 Jose Mourinho (football)
2004 Arsene Wenger (football)
2003 Clive Woodward (rugby)
2002 Arsene Wenger (football)
2001 Sven-Goran Eriksson (football)
2000 Jurgen Grobler (rowing)
1999 Sir Alex Ferguson (football)

Helen Rollason Award

2009 Major Phil Packer
2008 Alastair Hignell (rugby union, cricket and BBC commentary)
2007 Oscar Pistorius (Paralympic runner)
2006 The late Paul Hunter (snooker)
2005 Geoff Thomas (football)
2004 Kirsty Howard
2003 Michael Watson (boxing)
2002 Jane Tomlinson (athletics)
2001 Ellen MacArthur (sailing)
2000 Tanni Grey-Thompson (wheelchair athletics)
1999 Jenny Pitman (horse racing)

Young Sports Personality of the Year

2009 Tom Daley (diving)
2008 Eleanor Simmonds (Paralympic swimmer)
2007 Tom Daley (diving)
2006 Theo Walcott (football)
2005 Harry Aikines Aryeetey (athletics)
2004 Andrew Murray (tennis)
2003 Kate Haywood (swimming)
2002 Wayne Rooney (football)
2001 Amy Spencer (athletics)

The Unsung Hero Award

2009 Doreen Adcock
2008 Ben Geyser
2007 Margaret Simons
2006 Val Hanover
2005 Trevor Collins
2004 Abdullah Ben-Kmayal
2003 Nobby Woodcock

Special Achievement Award

2006 David Walliams (Channel swimmer/fund-raiser)
1994 Lester Piggott (horse racing)
1984 Lester Piggott (horse racing)
1981 Dennis Moore (athletics)

Manager of the Year

1969 Don Revie (Leeds United)

International Team Award

1983 Alan Bond and the crew of Australia II (sailing)

Special Team Award

1986 GB men's 4x400m team (athletics)

Good Sport Awards

1990 Derek Warwick, Martin Donnelly, Louise Aitken-Walker (motor sports)

Sports Personality of the Century

1999 Muhammad Ali (boxing)

Newcomer of the Year

2000 Jenson Button (motor racing)
1999 Dean Macey (athletics)

Golden Sports Personality of the Year (for Sports Personality's 50th year)

2003 Sir Steve Redgrave (rowing)

Team of the Decades (for Sports Personality's 50th year)

2003 England World Cup winning football team of 1966

Special Gold Award (for work in winning 2012 Olympics in London)

2005 Sebastian Coe