2018 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award

The event, broadcast live on BBC One, was hosted by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan.

[3] The Lightning Seeds along with David Baddiel and Frank Skinner performed "Three Lions" whilst a montage of England's run to the football World Cup semi final was played.

[10] It was announced that the England national netball team's last second win over Australia for the Commonwealth Games title had been voted sporting moment of the year.

[21] King had won 39 Grand Slam titles in both singles and doubles competitions throughout her career, with 20 coming at Wimbledon.

In 1961 King and Karen Hantze Susman became the youngest pair to win the women's doubles title at Wimbledon.

Away from the court King founded the Women's Tennis Association and was an advocate of gender equality defeating Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes match.