BBC Sports activities Persona of the 12 months 2023 nominations

Mythical Flat jockey Frankie Dettori, has been shortlisted for the 2023 BBC Sports activities Persona of the 12 months Award.

Frankie, who’s 52 and lately took phase in ITV’s I’m A Superstar… Get Me Out Of Right here!, is one among six nominees within the seventieth operating of Sports activities Persona of the 12 months, which he mentioned was once ”a in point of fact proud second”.

He has loved a stellar yr within the saddle, together with notching two Classics, claiming the 2000 Guineas on Chaldean and the Oaks on Soul Sister. Different successes incorporated the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot on Braveness Mon Ami, the Coronation Cup at Epsom on Emily Upjohn and the Champions Stakes at Ascot on King Of Metal.

Frankie, who has ridden greater than 500 Staff winners, was once nominated for this award in 1996 after his wonderful success of using all seven winners on a unmarried day at Ascot. He in the end completed 3rd to System 1 global champion Damon Hill.

Frankie’s fellow nominees for the 2023 Sports activities Persona of the 12 months Award come with cricketer Stuart Vast, footballer Mary Earps, wheelchair tennis participant Alfie Hewett, athletics megastar Katarina Johnson-Thompson and golfer Rory McIlroy.

The six recreation stars will compete for the general public vote at the evening of the are living display on Tuesday, 19 December.

Reside from Media Town, Salford, presenters Clare Balding, Gary Lineker, Gabby Logan and Alex Scott will glance again at an action-packed yr of recreation on BBC One and iPlayer from 7pm.

Votes will also be forged through telephone or on-line at the night of nineteen December and the quantity to name for each and every contender might be published all the way through the programme.

Different awards that might be offered at the evening come with International Game Celebrity of the 12 months, the Helen Rollason Award, Younger Sports activities Persona of the 12 months, Unsung Hero, Trainer of the 12 months, Group of the 12 months and the Lifetime Success award.

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