The undisputed super-middleweight champion of the world held off stiff competition to win the 2007 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award on Sunday. And this is none other than Joe Calzaghe. Ten sporting celebrities competed for the public vote on the night during the live show. The public voted for their BBC Sports Personality of the Year by telephone during the show.
The shortlist of ten contenders was put together by an expert panel of leading sporting experts from a selection of more than 30 newspaper sports editors (national and regional) and magazines and the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year panel of 12 sporting experts.
Calzaghe lost out last year in the poll to equestrian Zara Phillips and joked then that he was not disappointed. He confessed after his win that though he said he didn’t care last year, he had lied.
Calzaghe, 35, unified the super-middleweight division with a unanimous points victory over Denmark’s Mikkel Kessler at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium last month.
It was also a good night for Enzo Calzaghe, father of Joe, who won the coach’s award.
Former England manager Sir Bobby Robson was awarded a lifetime achievement award presented by Sir Alex Ferguson.
The England rugby team won the sports team of the year and South Africa’s blade-runner, Oscar Pistorius, won the Helen Rollason Award.
Roger Federer was named the overseas sportsman of the year for a third time, and the Young Sports Personality of the Year Award went to diver Tom Daley.
Via: BBC News
