Many special teams have achieved historic and amazing feats this year, but one stood out above the rest.
The BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year for 2024 is...
"This is 20 years in the making. I wouldn't change a second of it. This is by far the proudest moment of my life. My hamstrings are shot, but that doesn't matter right now." - Wales most-capped player and record goalscorer Jess Fishlock after qualifying for Euro 2025, a first major tournament for Wales' women's team.
Image source, Getty Images
BBC One
Image source, PA MediaBritain’s most successful Paralympian Sarah Storey, speaking to BBC One: "I am not used to being this slow! I was training to do some ice skating and I tripped and broke my ankle.
"I did it two weeks ago and got the pot off yesterday. I am doing rehab like a crazy person.
"I have been doing sport for a long time and I love it."
On the LA Games: "I have not had the conversation.
"I love a challenge and they [Storey's children] love to be part of a big team and hopefully we put together a plan when I am better and fixed - we will see what it takes."
Jean Paton is a Royal Yachting Association (RYA) dinghy instructor.
During her time at Salterns, Paton has helped more than 800 children learn to sail.
The club, which is run by children with the of adults, operates as not-for-profit and hosts 'Moppy Camps' - RYA-accredited sail training weekends - twice yearly.
Paton has been at every 'Moppy Camp' since they began 20 years ago and has undertaken many roles, which require not only sailing expertise, but also leadership and the ability to inspire confidence in young sailors.
South Unsung Hero 2024 – Jean Paton
Volunteer Jean Paton is the recipient of the BBC Sports Personality Unsung Hero award for 2024!
Jean, 90, has given her time to volunteer at the Salterns Sailing Club in Lymington, Hampshire, for the best part of four decades.
Congratulations, Jean!
Image source, PA MediaIt's time to find out who will be the recipient of this year's Unsung Hero award.
This is the award that celebrates the best volunteers in sport, whose work is making a real difference in communities across the UK every day.
And, selected from 15 national and regional winners, the winner is...
Lorraine McKenna
BBC Sport F1 reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesAt the beginning of the 2024 Formula 1 season, Max Verstappen and Red Bull looked to be on course for another dominant year thanks to the Dutchman winning seven of the opening 10 grands prix.
By the end of the campaign, while Verstappen did wrap up his fourth consecutive drivers’ title after a winless run of 10 races (his victory from 17th on grid at the rain-affected Sao Paulo Grand Prix one of the best of the campaign), Red Bull had slipped to third in the constructors’ championship, handing over their crown to a resurgent McLaren – a first for the team since 1998.
There were plenty of highlights this year, including Lewis Hamilton’s record ninth triumph on home soil at Silverstone – his first race win since 2021 – and the emergence of a genuine four-way title fight between the top teams.
What’s to come in 2025? There’s only one thing to look out for: Hamilton driving a Ferrari.
Earlier you named Mondo Duplantis your World Sport Star.
Here's what he had to say about it...
Armand Duplantis named World Sport Star at BBC Sports Personality of the Year
Britain's most successful Paralympian added two more gold medals to her incredible collection this summer...
Sarah Storey is your final BBC Sports Personality of the Year contender!
Competing at her ninth Paralympics - the most by a British athlete - in August, Sarah Storey won her 18th gold medal with victory in the C5 time trial. It marked the fifth successive Games at which she has won the event.
Image source, Getty ImagesA second Parisian gold followed just two days later when Storey beat French rider Heidi Gaugain in a thrilling sprint finish to win the C4-5 road race for a fourth time.
She now has 30 Paralympic medals, earned across two sports and nine Paralympic Games since she first competed as a swimmer at Barcelona 1992. Nineteen of those are gold - no British athlete has won more.
Image source, Getty ImagesIn September, Storey successfully defended her C4-C5 individual time trial title at the World Championships in Switzerland, then retained her C5 road race title on the wet streets of Zurich.
It marked her 10th road race-time trial double at the World Championships, and her 39th cycling world title.
Image source, SWpix.com
Sarah Storey is Britain's most successful Paralympian and added two more gold medals to her incredible collection as she won the C4-C5 road race and C5 road time trial at the Paris Games.
Elizabeth Hudson
BBC Sport disability sport reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesParis proved to be another very successful Paralympic Games for the Great Britain team.
The team came back from the French capital with 124 medals – 49 gold, 44 silver and 31 bronze - and were second behind China in the table, winning medals in 18 of the 19 sports they took part in.
Among the numerous highlights were swimmer Poppy Maskill winning three golds and two silvers to lead the medal haul, cyclist Sarah Storey extending her record as Britain’s most successful Paralympian with her 18th and 19th titles at her ninth Games and archer Jodie Grinham claiming a gold and silver while seven months pregnant.
Matt Bush became the first British man to win an Olympic or Paralympic taekwondo title while Lauren Rowles clinched her third successive gold medal to become Para-rowing’s most successful athlete.
Overall, the French crowd embraced the Games and after Covid had a huge negative impact on Tokyo, the global Paralympic movement seems to be back on a strong trajectory ahead of the Los Angeles Games in 2028.
The action continued with a showcase of Para-sport in the French capital.
And what a showcase it was.
Image source, Getty Images
Image source, Getty Images
Image source, Getty Images
Image source, Getty Images
Image source, Getty ImagesThere's less than an hour until we find out your Sports Personality of the Year winner. Here's how to cast your vote...
You can vote online here, by telephone or by scanning the QR code on the graphic.
In order to cast your vote online, you must sign in to your BBC . If you do not have an , you will need to before you can vote.
You can only vote once and must be in the UK to vote online.
If you're calling from a mobile the number is 6 22 82 followed by the number of your favourite. From landlines call 09015 22 82 and add the number of your favourite.
The numbers to add for each contender are as follows:
Emma Sanders
BBC Sport women’s football news reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesThere was a sense of déjà vu in 2024 as Chelsea won the WSL for a fifth year running, Barcelona were crowned European champions again and Emma Hayes’ victories continued as she led the USA to gold at the Olympic Games just weeks after starting her new job.
Chelsea were pushed all the way by Manchester City, winning the WSL on goal difference, while Scottish champions Celtic reached the Women’s Champions League group stages for the first time in their history.
Manchester United won their first major trophy in the Women’s FA Cup, seeing off final debutants Tottenham, while Arsenal beat Chelsea to the Women’s League Cup but manager Jonas Eidevall stepped down seven months later – one of many managerial changes in the WSL this year.
On the international stage, it has been a tough year for the Lionesses as they missed out on Olympic qualification and had a rocky Nations League campaign before securing their spot at Euro 2025.
But it was a year to for Wales as they qualified for their first major tournament, while Northern Ireland and Scotland missed out in the play-offs.
Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport tennis reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesAryna Sabalenka started the year by defending her Australian Open title without dropping a set.
She ended it as the world number one, producing a remarkable home stretch where she won the US Open and two big hard-court titles to overhaul Iga Swiatek as world number one.
Swiatek continued her French Open dominance, winning her fourth Paris title in five years, but a tough end to the year saw her accept a one-month ban after testing positive for a banned substance.
Jasmine Paolini was the breakout star. She began 2024 having never gone beyond the second round of a Grand Slam. She promptly went on to reach the French Open and Wimbledon finals, before helping Italy lift the Billie Jean King Cup trophy.
"Obviously, it was emotional because it's the last time I will play a competitive match. But I am genuinely happy just now. I'm happy with how it finished. I’m glad I got to go out here and finish on my . At times in the last few years, that wasn't a certainty." - Andy Murray after playing his last competitive tennis match before retiring. Murray and doubles partner Dan Evans reached the quarter-finals at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Image source, Getty Images
Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport tennis reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesFor so long, the burning ATP Tour question has been: who fills the void left by the ageing superstars? This year has finally seen the evolution gather serious pace.
Italy's Jannik Sinner produced one of the finest seasons on record – claiming Australian Open, US Open and ATP Finals titles before guiding Italy to Davis Cup victory - although the cloud of an ongoing doping case hovers. Spain's Carlos Alcaraz won the French Open and Wimbledon to reinforce why ATP chiefs hope the pair will carry the men's game forward.
The duopoly left 37-year-old Novak Djokovic – the last man standing in the 'Big Three' – stomaching a Slam-less season. The 24-time major champion, though, achieved what he really had set his heart on: winning the Olympic title to seal a rare career Golden Slam.
While Djokovic soldiers on, 2024 will be ed as the year of the retirement. Grand Slam champions Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem and, of course, Andy Murray brought the curtains down on illustrious careers with a tear in their eye.
Murray's role as the British talisman has already been reassigned. Jack Draper, a charming 22-year-old with an explosive style, showed what the future could hold for the nation's tennis fans with a breakout season headlined by a US Open semi-final run.
"It’s the fastest I’ve ever run. It’s the best 1500m performance I could ever ask for - a British record and a personal best. I told you guys we were going to put on a 1500m that would go down in generations and we did that today." - Josh Kerr after winning silver in the 1500m at the Paris Olympics with a time of 3:27.79 behind American Cole Hocker.
Image source, Getty Images
Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport track cycling reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesGreat Britain’s Emma Finucane made British Olympic history by winning three medals at the Paris 2024 Games, the first British woman to do so at the same Olympics since athlete Mary Rand in 1964. She won team sprint gold alongside Katy Marchant and Sophie Capewell before two bronze medals followed in the individual sprint and keirin.
The Dutch, and triple gold medallist Harrie Lavreysen, dominated the men’s sprint events, but there was a shock after the Games when Australia’s Matty Richardson, who won double silver, announced he was switching nationality to Great Britain.
In total, Team GB won eight track cycling medals in Paris, while 13 came back to British shores from the World Championships in Denmark in October.
It was at that event that Katie Archibald made her comeback, having broken her leg in a freak garden accident on the eve of the Olympics. She helped GB to team pursuit gold in Ballerup, while Anna Morris won her first solo world title in the individual pursuit.