A Decade Of...BBC Sports Personality Winners Quiz

Answer: Jonjo O'Neill

McCoy defeated darts player Phil Taylor and heptathlete Jessica Ennis to become the first jockey to ever win the award. While McCoy won thousands of races in his career, he did not win the Grand National, considered the most important race of the year, until his 15th attempt in 2010.

It was also the first time that O'Neill had won the big race too. The name of the horse that McCoy won with was Don't Push It. McCoy would ride the same horse again in the 2011 Grand National, but this time came in third place. While McCoy won 4,358 races in his record-breaking career, this would be the only time that he won the big one.

Answer: MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire)

2011 saw Cavendish defeat golfer Darren Clarke and long-distance runner Mo Farah to the award. It was a great year for the Brit, with Cavendish winning five stages of the 2011 Tour De France and becoming the first British cyclist to win the points classification in the Tour De France standings. In June 2011, it was announced that Cavendish would be appointed an MBE.

Other impressive achievements from Cavendish that year included winning the UCI Road World Championship and winning the Revolution event at the Manchester Velodrome, his first win of any kind on the track since 2008.

Answer: Steve Redgrave

In the time trial at the 2012 Olympics, Wiggins won the gold medal, his seventh overall medal at the Olympics. (Four gold, one silver, two bronze) This saw Wiggins surpass Sir Steve Redgrave, the legendary rower who won five gold medals and a bronze medal in his Olympic career. While Hoy did eventually reach seven medals himself, Wiggins would finish his career with eight Olympic medals, the most for a British Olympian. Beresford won five in rowing while Ainslie also won five in sailing.

All but one of the 12 nominees for the 2012 Sports Personality of the Year Award had won Olympic gold during London 2012, with iconic athletes such as Chris Hoy and Mo Farah failing to even place in the top three. Jessica Ennis came in second place while Andy Murray finished third. The awards show was so desperate to pay homage to the 2012 Games that the ceremony was held at the ExCeL in London, which had played host to several sports during that year's Olympics and Paralympic Games.

Answer: Harold Mahony

Murray's historic win was a huge moment for the British public, many of whom had never seen a homegrown player win the Wimbledon tournament. He received 56% of the public vote, crushing all of his competition which included 2010 winner AP McCoy, Tour de France winner Chris Froome and multiple Olympic champion Mo Farah.

With the win, Murray became the first Scottish-born player to win the gentlemen's singles since Mahony in 1896. Hartley, champion in 1879 and 1880, was the only clergyman to ever win the tournament. Hamilton was champion in 1890, but was born in Kildare, Ireland. Doherty won the tournament every year between 1897 and 1900 and was born in the Wimbledon area.

Answer: Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Hamilton led his teammate Nico Rosberg coming into the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi, which utilised the extremely unpopular double points method, meaning Hamilton had to finish in the top two to guarantee his championship win. Ultimately, Hamilton won the race, sealing his second Drivers' Championship and his first since 2008. Hamilton ultimately ended the season on 384 points compared to Rosberg's 317.

Hamilton received roughly a third of the popular vote, defeating golfer Rory McIlroy to the award. He became the first Formula One driver to win the award since Damon Hill in 1996.

Answer: John McEnroe and Mats Wilander

Great Britain had previously defeated the United States 3-2, France 3-1 and Australia 3-2 to reach the final against Belgium, where Murray inspired Britain to a 3-1 victory. Murray won both of his singles rubbers in each round, making him the third man after McEnroe and Wilander to go 8-0 in singles rubbers in a World Group campaign. He also became the fourth player to go a combined 11-0 in singles and doubles matches.

With this win, Murray won Sports Personality of the Year for a second time in three years, edging out rugby league star Kevin Sinfield in the public vote.

Answer: Formula One

Murray's three wins form half of tennis' six wins, alongside Greg Rusedski (1997), Virginia Wade (1977) and Ann Jones (1969). Football had five winners up to 2016, with Bobby Moore (1966), Paul Gascoigne (1990), Michael Owen (1998), David Beckham (2001) and Ryan Giggs (2009) all winning the award. Boxing also had five winners, starting with Henry Cooper's two wins (1967, 1970) and then continuing with Barry McGuigan (1985), Lennox Lewis (1999) and Joe Calzaghe (2007). Cricket had four winners at that point, with Jim Laker (1956), David Steele (1975), Ian Botham (1981) and Andrew Flintoff (2005) all scooping the award. Ben Stokes became the fifth cricketer to win the award in 2019.

In 2016, Formula One had seven winners in the history of the award. Stirling Moss was the first to achieve this in 1961, while Jackie Stewart won it in 1973. Nigel Mansell won two Sports Personality Awards in 1986 and 1992, while Damon Hill won in 1994 and 1996. As mentioned previously, Lewis Hamilton won Formula One's seventh award in 2014.

Answer: Farah wins the 10,000m at the 2017 World Championships

2017 was a very eventful year for the four-time Olympic champion. On 4 August, Farah won the 10,000m at the 2017 World Athletics Championships, repeating his success from the 2013 and 2015 championships. On 24 August, Farah won the 5,000m in Zurich, his last race on the track. (Although he did hint at a return to the track in 2019) He won the Great North Run in September, becoming the first man to win the race for four consecutive years. On 31 October, he split from longtime coach Salazar.

Farah narrowly defeated Superbike World Champion Jonathan Rea to the title, earning less than 1% more of the public vote than Rea.

Answer: Tom Dumoulin

In the final general classification, which determines the winner of the Tour, Thomas finished in first, finishing the entire Tour in 83 hours, 17 minutes and 13 seconds, a minute and 51 seconds clear of Dumoulin. Froome, champion in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017, came third. Roglic finished fourth while Martin finished in eighth place.

Thomas was the first Welshman to win the Sports Personality award since Ryan Giggs in 2009, and beat tough competition in Lewis Hamilton and Harry Kane to win the coveted prize.

Answer: Andile Phehlukwayo

Stokes was a star throughout the tournament, scoring 89 runs in the first match of the tournament against South Africa. In that game, he made an obscene catch of Phehlukwayo's hit, which was a sign of things to come in that year's World Cup. In the final against New Zealand, Stokes scored 84, including two sixes in the final over to force a tie. England then proceeded to win the tie in a super over.

It was a massive source of redemption for Stokes, who only two years earlier had been arrested after a fight with two men outside a nightclub. Stokes has seen himself transpire from being one of Britain's more controversial stars to becoming a hero of England's World Cup effort.