BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality

The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality is given on an annual basis to the non-British sportsman or sportswoman considered to have made the most substantial contribution to sport in that year.

[edit] Winners

• 1962 Herb Elliott, Australian runner
• 1961 Valeriy Brumel, Soviet high jumper
• 1962 Donald Jackson, Canadian figure skater
• 1963 Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist
• 1964 Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner
• 1965 Jointly awarded - Ron Clarke, Australian runner, and Gary Player, South African golfer
• 1966 Jointly awarded - Eusébio, Portuguese footballer, and Garfield Sobers, West Indian cricketer
• 1967 George Moore, Australian jockey
• 1968 Jointly awarded - Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova, Soviet figure skaters
• 1969 Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
• 1970 Pelé, Brazilian footballer
• 1971 Lee Trevino, American golfer
• 1972 Olga Korbut, Soviet gymnast
• 1973 Muhammad Ali, American boxer
• 1974 Muhammad Ali, American boxer
• 1975 Arthur Ashe, American tennis player
• 1976 Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast
• 1977 Niki Lauda, Austrian Formula One driver
• 1978 Muhammad Ali, American boxer
• 1979 Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
• 1980 Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
• 1981 Chris Evert, American tennis player
• 1982 Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
• 1983 Carl Lewis, American runner
• 1984 Severiano Ballesteros, Spanish golfer
• 1985 Boris Becker, West German tennis player
• 1986 Greg Norman, Australian golfer
• 1987 Martina Navratilova, American tennis player
• 1988 Steffi Graf, West German tennis player
• 1989 Mike Tyson, American boxer
• 1990 Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1991 Mike Powell, American long jumper
• 1992 Andre Agassi, American tennis player
• 1993 Greg Norman, Australian golfer
• 1994 Brian Lara, West Indian cricketer
• 1995 Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union footballer
• 1996 Jointly awarded - Evander Holyfield, American boxer, and Michael Johnson, American runner
• 1997 Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
• 1998 Mark O'Meara, American golfer
• 1999 Maurice Greene, American runner
• 2000 Tiger Woods, American golfer
• 2001 Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player
• 2002 Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
• 2003 Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
• 2004 Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
• 2005 Shane Warne, Australian cricketer
• 2006 Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
• 2007 Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player

[edit] Statistics

Number of Awards	Countries
19	United States
8	Australia
4	Soviet Union,  Switzerland
2	Brazil,  West Germany,  West Indies
1	Austria,  Canada,  Croatia,  Ethiopia,  France,  New Zealand,  Portugal,  Romania,  South Africa,  Spain,  Sweden

[edit] Multiple winners

The award has been won multiple times by only three people:

Three times winners:

Muhammad Ali: 1973, 1974, 1978

Roger Federer: 2004, 2006, 2007

Twice winner:

Greg Norman: 1986, 1993

[edit] Joint winners

The award has been jointly awarded in 4 separate years.

• 1965: Ron Clarke and Gary Player
• 1966: Eusébio and Garfield Sobers
• 1968: Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova
• 1996: Evander Holyfield and Michael Johnson