US Open
Tennis champion secures most viewer votesTom Daley and Adam Peaty second and third respectivelyEmma Raducanu is the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year for 2021, capping a year of unprecedented sporting success for the tennis star who told the show she was simply “a 19-year-old from Bromley … that’s who she is, nothing else to it.”
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US Open champion received the award in quarantine in Abu Dhabi, where she is recovering from Covid-19. She beat Tom Daley and Adam Peaty into second and third place, while England’s men’s footballers were named team of the year and Gareth Southgate the coach, as a triumphant period for
British sport across the board was commemorated at a ceremony in Salford.