{"id":63720,"date":"2021-12-22T06:27:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T06:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=63720"},"modified":"2022-09-14T14:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T09:14:34","slug":"emma-raducanu-wins-bbc-sports-personality-of-the-year-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/emma-raducanu-wins-bbc-sports-personality-of-the-year-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tennis star Emma Raducanu<\/strong> has been crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2021. The 19-year-old enjoyed an astonishing breakout year in tennis as she won the US Open<\/strong> and became the first British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title since Virginia Wade in 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She beat Tom Daley(diver)<\/strong> and Adam Peaty (swimmer)<\/strong> into second and third place, while England\u2019s men\u2019s footballers were named team of the year and Gareth Southgate the coach, as a triumphant period for British sport across the board was commemorated at a ceremony in Salford. Tom Daley won gold for the first time at his fourth Olympics in Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other award winners at Sports Personality 2021:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Categories<\/strong><\/td>Winners<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Helen Rollason Award<\/td>Jen Beattie<\/td><\/tr>
Coach of the Year<\/td>Gareth Southgate<\/td><\/tr>
Team of the Year<\/td>England men\u2019s football team<\/td><\/tr>
World Sport Star<\/td>Rachael Blackmore<\/td><\/tr>
Lifetime Achievement<\/td>Simone Biles<\/td><\/tr>
Unsung Hero<\/td>Sam Barlow<\/td><\/tr>
Young Sports Personality of the Year<\/td>Sky Brown<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tennis star Emma Raducanu has been crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2021. The 19-year-old enjoyed an astonishing breakout year in tennis as she won the US Open and became the first British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title since Virginia Wade in 1977. She beat Tom Daley(diver) and Adam Peaty (swimmer) into second and third place, while England\u2019s men\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":63721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2506],"tags":[4925,92,2691,59],"class_list":["post-63720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2021","tag-awards-honours-current-affairs","tag-awards-prizes-current-affairs","tag-bbc-sports-personality-of-the-year-2021","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115801,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63720\/revisions\/115801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}