Andy Murray won the BBC Sports Personality of The Year award for a record third time in four years in Birmingham over the weekend and Paddy Power have priced up the world’s number one tennis player at 9/2 to take the prize again in 2017.
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The short-list for SPOTY in 2016 had to be extended, such was the success that British sportsmen and woman enjoyed this year. There are no really big events or tournaments in 2017, however, so nominators can be more selective. Heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua is the early favourite to claim the BBC award in 12 months’ time in anticipation of a victory over Wladimir Klitschko at the end of April. He’s only a best 9/4, however, and that looks short of value given he’ll disappear from the list altogether if he suffers a defeat.
Lewis Hamilton is 8/1 but most F1 fans will be taking another world championship for granted now that Nico Rosberg has retired – Hamilton would probably have to win almost every race to be considered for SPOTY. It is the World Athletics Championships next year but, despite Mo Farah’s success on the track, he’s consistently polled low in the voting and you just couldn’t have any British footballer at the moment. Cricket, too, has little lined-up in the next 12 months but there is a Lions Tour coming up in rugby union but England’s Billy Vunipola and Owen Farrell priced up at 66/1 and 80/1 respectively.
Paddy Power Odds for the 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
Anthony Joshua (9/4), Andy Murray (9/2), Lewis Hamilton (8/1), Rory McIlroy and Chris Froome (10/1), Harry Kane, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Billy Vunipola (66/1), Owen Farrell (80/1), Amir Khan (100/1)
