Laura Trott 11/2 at Bet365 to take 2016 Sports Personality of the Year title

Laura Trott to run away with public vote at SPOTY 2016?

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Andy Murray remains the outright favourite to win the 2016 Sports Personality of the Year title after his Wimbledon and Olympic double this year. There is still the US Open to come from Flushing Meadows of course so he could yet add to his momentous year. However, detractors would say that back in 2012 when he won the Gold Medal at the Olympics and then won the US Open as well, he lost out on the award, finishing third behind Bradley Wiggins and Jessica Ennis.

The tennis star of course picked it up the following year and again in 2015 so he would be on course to be the first ever personality to win it in back to back years. It has been a great year from him and perhaps those tears shed at Rio 2016 will help him get there. But this has been such a big year of sports from a British perspective that it is worth looking around the market and opposing him though.

Now that the Olympics has concluded there is a much clearer picture settling down. Mo Farah has moved into a massively strong 5/2 second favourite position in the 2016 Sports Personality of the Year betting market after another double-gold haul at the Olympics, repeating what he managed four years ago in London. It’s been such dedication and a remarkable return from the distance runner to land that double-double that he really deserves to pick up the accolade. He is the most successful ever British track athlete and has to be in the top three.

But a big clue to who could get it this year is in the voting. The public of course can cast their votes before hand online but on the night of the awards, they will be able to pick up the phone and cast votes too. This happens on December 18th this year and if you cast your eyes down the list of potential winners who will be profiled on the night, then it is the diminutive Olympic hero Laura Trott who could sweep the board. The inspirational cyclist claimed her third and fourth gold medals at the Olympics during Rio 2016 and she has been in the public eye and is now the most successful female British athlete at the Olympics.

She comes across as a bubbly personality, which is going to have a lot more appeal in the stakes, opposed to her somewhat more austere husband-to-be Jason Kenny. Kenny won three gold at Rio 2016 putting him in that elite club of six gold medals for Britain, the joint most-successful athlete that has competed for Britain at the Olympics Games. But if this really does come down to a personality duel then Trott would sweep the board with her personality, achievements, charisma and inspiration and will have the chance when she marries Kenny this year, to be in the spotlight again and have the public fall in love with her even more.

All that for Trott, can triumph over Kenny, over Murray and over Farah. That has to give her huge appeal at a price of 11/2, while Kenny is out at 12/1. It’s been a momentous 2016 for British athletes, from Nicola Adams landing Olympic Gold in boxing, veteran Nick Skelton getting a gold, Max Whitlock breaking through for GB in gymnastics and Adam Peaty ending a long wait for a British swimming gold to name but a few. Even looking beyond the Olympics you have the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Chris Froome and Anthony Joshua who have all had big, big years. This may be the most competitive Sports Personality of the Year award until the next Olympic Games comes around.

2016 Sports Personality of the Year Betting Odds

Andy Murray 11/10, Mo Farah 5/2, Laura Trott 11/2, Jason Kenny 12/1, Max Whitlock 18/1, Gareth Bale 20/1, Anthony Joshua 30/1, Lewis Hamilton 40/1, Chris Froome 50/1, Jamie Vardy 50/1, Nick Skelton 50/1, 66/1 bar

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