[1][2] The winner of the 2012 award was Bradley Wiggins, the Tour de France and Olympic time trial champion.
[3] The awards ceremony was hosted at ExCeL London, which had been a venue for several sports during the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
Prior to 2012, a panel of thirty sports journalists each submit a list of ten contenders.
The shortlist was announced at the beginning of December, and the winner was determined on the night of the ceremony by a public telephone vote.
Unlike past years the voting opened after every contender has shown a video of them achieving in their sport, not at the beginning of the show.