Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Michelle Agyemang Are Up For Sports Personality of the Year
Honoring the world’s biggest and brightest athletes of 2025 through the BBC’s annual list.
BBC‘s annual Sports Personality of the Year Awards ceremony is coming up, and the official list of nominees is full of the biggest names in women’s sports. From World Sport Star of the Year to Team of the Year, the world’s finest female athletes had one of their biggest years yet in 2025, and the BBC knows it. Ready to collect their flowers, Olympians, European champions and emerging stars are all on this year’s shortlists.
Of the three nominees for the Young Sports Personality of the Year Award, not one, but two talented young women have been shortlisted. England’s Michelle Agyemang had a breakout season last year, culminating in a European trophy this past summer. Scoring crucial goals for the Lionesses on their road to a second consecutive European Championship, no youngster is more deserving of the award. No youngster apart from Davina Perrin, that is. The promising young cricketer is one of the most exciting talents in the sport, already breaking records at only 19. Paving a path for herself in a male-dominated sport, Perrin is an inspiration to young girls everywhere.
For World Sport Star of the Year, Mariona Caldentey and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone lead the pack, and rightfully so. At only 26, track star McLaughlin-Levrone is an Olympic gold medalist, a world record holder and widely regarded as the greatest female hurdler of all time. Caldentey has been a somewhat underrated player for most of her career, but she stepped into the limelight in 2025, winning the Champions League with Arsenal and leading Spain to their first-ever European Cup final.
For the second year in a row, the awards ceremony will be hosted by an all-female crew made up of Clare Balding, Gabby Logan and Alex Scott. The BBC SPOTY Awards will take place on December 18 and will be available to watch on BBC One and iPlayer.
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