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Lucy Garner in the rainbow jersey.jpgLucy Garner shortlisted for BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year Award
Mark Cavendish isn’t the only cyclist up for an award in next month’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year, with news that Britain’s other rainbow jersey winner at Copehagen, Lucy Garner, has been shortlisted in the Young Sports Personality category.
The 17-year-old from Leicestershire was the first British woman since Nicole Cooke in 2001 to win the Junior Road Race World Championship.
Garner is among ten young sportsmen and women to have made the shortlist, with the best known being diver Tom Daley, a three-time winner of the award, the Paralympic swimmer, Ellie Simmons, who won in 2008, and tennis player Laura Robson.
They are joined by another tennis player, Liam Broady, athlete Sally Brown, Athletics, diver Jack Laugher, boxer Pat McCormack, the golfer, Lauren Taylor, and rugby union player Anthony Watson.
That list will be whittled down to just three candidates by a panel of judges on 6 December, with the winner chosen by secret ballot and announced at the event televised live from Salford on 22 December.
The winner of the main prize of the evening is decided by public phone vote, and Cavendish, who this year achieved his twin goals of winning the green jersey in the Tour de France, is currently the bookies’ favourite, ahead of golfer, Darren Clarke.
Another golfer from Northern Ireland, Rory McIlroy, and the athlete Mo Farah are vying for third place according to the bookmakers, well behind the two front runners.
Only two cyclists have previoously won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award; Tom Simpson was the first, in 1965, the same year he won the World Road Race Championship, while Sir Chris Hoy capped his three gold medals at Beijing in 2008 by taking that year's prize.
In 2008, Britain's Olympic cycling squad also won the team award, while Dave Brailsford walked away with the title of Coach of teh Year.
The list of ten nominees for this year's main award will be announced live on The One Show next Monday, 28 November.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Now if we are talking Triathletes, I think Chrissie Wellington should really be top of the list... and she does hold the world record.
I think she should win this, hands down from that selection, but Ellie Simmonds has had a good year.
As for the main prize - I know that Cav has done well, and we'd all like to see him win, but my vote goes straight to Alistair Brownlee. He's completely dominated Triathlon for years, trounced the opposition this year, is world champion, european champion, ranked 1 in the world, and even has time to saunter down the finish line to wait for his brother so they can cross the line together. He only doesn't hold the world record because there isn't one.
Sorry.
Well, there aren't any footballers listed... but yeah, Tom Daley you imagine will make the final three, and the fact his father passed away this year may swing it.
yeah great but she won't win if of course, it will probably do to a footballer or shit-for-brains rugby player or similar. Or bloody Tom Daley.
Never a cyclist