Beth Mead has been topped because the 2022 BBC Sports activities Character of the 12 months, turning into the primary ladies’s footballer to ever win the prize.
The 27-year-old Arsenal striker impressed the Lionesses to success at Euro 2022, with England profitable their first main worldwide competitors because the males’s group lifted the World Cup in 1966.
Mead received the general public ballot forward of England Check cricket captain Ben Stokes and Olympic curling champion Eve Muirhead, whereas Ronnie O’Sullivan, Jessica Gadirova and Jake Wightman had been additionally within the six-person shortlist.
Beth Mead has been topped because the BBC Sports activities Character of the 12 months for 2022
Mead led England to glory at Euro 2022 with the Lionesses beating Germany 2-1 within the closing
It sealed a hat-trick for the Lionesses who additionally received the Group of the 12 months award, whereas Sarina Wiegman clinched the Coach of the 12 months prize.
At Euro 2022 was which performed on residence soil, Mead received the Golden Boot as she scored six objectives whereas additionally offering 5 assists.
England clinched the event with a 2-1 victory over Germany within the closing.
Mead received the Golden Boot and Participant of the Match award for her efforts at Euro 2022
She was named because the Participant of the Match for her efforts, turning into the primary English participant to win each that award and the Golden Boot on the Euros or World Cup.
These achievements are much more spectacular given Mead needed to bounce again from the crushing disappointment of being omitted of the Group GB squad for the Tokyo Olympics.
Her success on the BBC Sports activities Character of the 12 months award comes as no success, as she was the runaway favorite with odds of 1/80.
Mead attended the ceremony crutches after struggling an ACL rupture in November, placing her World Cup hopes unsure.
Beth Mead arrived on the present on crutches after struggling an ACL rupture and she or he was pictured together with her accomplice and Arsenal team-mate Vivianne Miedema who has the identical damage
She was seen alongside accomplice and Arsenal team-mate Vivianne Miedema – who was additionally on crutches after not too long ago struggling the identical damage.
Mead joins Bobby Moore, Paul Gascoigne, Michael Owen, David Beckham and Ryan Giggs because the footballers who’ve received the award.
Mead turned the second feminine in a row to select up the celebrated prize after Emma Raducanu’s success final yr.
Following the tennis star’s coronation following her US Open victory final yr, there had been no feminine winner since Zara Phillips in 2006.
Additionally through the present, Lionel Messi was named World Sport Star of the 12 months after main Argentina to glory on the World Cup, whereas eight-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt was given the Lifetime Achievement Award.Gadirova missed out on the primary award however took the Younger Sports activities Character of the 12 months prize.
Former rugby rugby participant Rob Burrow, who’s right this moment battling with Motor Neurone Illness was given the Helen Rollason award.
His former Leeds Rhinos team-mate Kevin Sinfield was given the BBC Particular Award having raised greater than £7m for charity since his shut buddy’s prognosis in 2019.
Whereas lastly, Mike Alden, the chairman of Park Knowle FC in Bristol was handed the Unsung Hero Award.
