Sports Personality of the Year 2016 nominees: Andy Murray

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Age: 29

Twitter: @andy_murray

2016 highlight: Where do we start? Wimbledon champion, Olympic champion, and current World Number One after winning the ATP World Tour Finals in London.

His wife also gave birth to their first child. Not bad all told.

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Murray won Sports Personality of the Year in 2015, and is hot favourite to do so again – although he has said that he will be unable to attend the ceremony in person this year.

What the commentator said: “Straight sets again! Wimbledon champion again! A supreme performance! A first class tournament. It’s Murray's time in the sunshine of centre court once again.”

Watch Andy Murray react to winning Wimbledon for the second time

Sports Personality of the Year 2016: who will win?

Nicola
Adams

Gareth
Bale

Alistair
Brownlee

Sophie
Christiansen

Kadeena
Cox

Mo
Farah

Jason
Kenny

Laura
Kenny

Andy
Murray

Adam
Peaty

Kate
Richardson-Walsh

Nick
Skelton

Sarah
Storey

Jamie
Vardy

Max
Whitlock

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Danny
Willett

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