The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. The award is given “for outstanding ach
Ex-footballer Geoff Thomas, who won the award in 2005
Fatima Whitbread
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Fatima Whitbread, is a British retired javelin thrower. She broke the world record with a throw of 77.44 m in the qualifying round of the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, and became
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award
…after being diagnosed with breast cancer. 2022 ENG Rob Burrow Rugby league For raising awareness of and fundraising for motor neurone disease 2023 ENG Fatima Whitbread Athletics For her campaigning for children and those in the care system, after she spent the first fourteen years of her life in a children's home…
Whitbread in 2012
Whitbread in 1988