Hamilton wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014


London, Dec 15 (IANS): Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has been voted as the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014.

The 29-year-old Mercedes driver won his second world title this season by taking 11 races. He won 34 percent of the vote Sunday, followed by Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy with 20 percent and athlete Jo Pavey third with 16 percent, reports Xinhua.

"I was sitting there saying Rory's going to have it," said Hamilton.

"I thought it had to be someone else. I want to say a huge thank you to all the people who called in, I really wasn't expecting it," he added.

 

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Hamilton wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.