'This is mad': 17-year-old Littler stunned by Spoty nomination
The Guardian|December 10, 2024
Luke Littler will have a shot at becoming the youngest winner of the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award for more than 60 years after being named on a six-strong shortlist headed by the Paris 2024 Olympics stars Keely Hodgkinson and Alex Yee.
Sean Ingle
'This is mad': 17-year-old Littler stunned by Spoty nomination

The England footballer Jude Bellingham, the cricketer Joe Root and the Paralympian Sarah Storey complete the list. But, surprisingly, there is no place for Mark Cavendish, in a year when he broke Eddy Merckx's record for Tour de France stage wins.

Victory would make Littler, who turned 17 in January, the second-youngest winner behind the Scottish swimmer Ian Black in 1958. His nomination is reward for a remarkable 12 months, in which he went from an almost complete unknown to the final of the PDC World Darts Championship, aged 16, and won more than £1m in prize money.

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