BBC Sports activities Character of the 12 months 2023 nominations

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

Frankie, who’s 52 and lately took half in ITV’s I’m A Celeb… Get Me Out Of Right here!, is one in every of six nominees within the seventieth operating of Sports activities Character of the 12 months, which he stated was ”a very proud second”.

He has loved a stellar 12 months within the saddle, together with notching two Classics, claiming the 2000 Guineas on Chaldean and the Oaks on Soul Sister. Different successes included 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 Group winners, was nominated for this award in 1996 after his wonderful achievement of driving all seven winners on a single day at Ascot. He finally completed third to System 1 world champion Damon Hill.

Frankie’s fellow nominees for the 2023 Sports activities Character of the 12 months Award embrace cricketer Stuart Broad, footballer Mary Earps, wheelchair tennis participant Alfie Hewett, athletics star Katarina Johnson-Thompson and golfer Rory McIlroy.

The six sport stars will compete for the general public vote on the evening of the dwell present on Tuesday, 19 December.

Reside from Media Metropolis, Salford, presenters Clare Balding, Gary Lineker, Gabby Logan and Alex Scott will look again at an action-packed 12 months of sport on BBC One and iPlayer from 7pm.

Votes could be forged by cellphone or on-line on the night of 19 December and the quantity to name for every contender will probably be revealed through the programme.

Different awards that will probably be introduced on the evening embrace World Sport Star of the 12 months, the Helen Rollason Award, Younger Sports activities Character of the 12 months, Unsung Hero, Coach of the 12 months, Workforce of the 12 months and the Lifetime Achievement award.

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