BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 odds: Luke Littler rated main threat to Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson

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Alex Yee to win Sports Personality of the Year without Keely Hodgkinson
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BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 odds

Here are the latest odds ahead of BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 on Tuesday, December 17

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Keely Hodgkinson outclassed her rivals to win the 800m at the Paris Olympics and bookmakers reckon the Team GB star is well clear in the race to be crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

The award will be presented on Tuesday and Hodgkinson, who also won an Olympic silver as a teenager in Tokyo, is a best-priced 2-7 for glory after featuring on the final shortlist of six contenders.

She is hoping to become the fourth successive female winner, after tennis player Emma Raducanu and England footballers Beth Mead and Mary Earps, while athletics has produced 18 SPOTY winners – ten more than any other sport.

Hodgkinson's main market rival is teenage darts sensation Luke Littler, who reached the final of the 2024 Paddy Power World Darts Championship in January and has established himself as the face of the sport during his debut season.

Triathlete Alex Yee, England cricket legend Joe Root, Three Lions star Jude Bellingham and decorated paralympian Sarah Storey complete the final six, but it's 66-1 bar the leading duo. 

Here is Racing Post Sport's guide to the leading contenders for the prestigious BBC award.

Keely Hodgkinson

Hodgkinson was the subject of a shrewd SPOTY plunge shortly before the Olympics. Her odds were clipped from 14-1 to 4-1 after she broke the national record at London's Diamond League meeting in July and she was slashed to 8-15 having struck gold in Paris.

Fellow Team GB athletes Matthew Hudson-Smith, Josh Kerr and Katarina Johnson-Thompson won silver medals at the Olympics but Hodgkinson's was the only British gold in athletics and the summer gamble on her is unlikely to go astray.    

Luke Littler

Luke Littler and Hodgkinson were 4-1 joint-favourites for SPOTY at the start of the Olympics but The Nuke was eased to 13-2 after the Paris Games.

However, with the festive darts frenzy gripping the nation again now the Paddy Power PDC World Championship is under way, Littler is a solid second-favourite while world number one Luke Humphries, who beat him in January's final at Ally Pally, was omitted from the shortlist entirely.

Arrers fans would love to see Littler – the dauphin of darts, the kebab king – join Princess Anne and Zara Phillips on the SPOTY roll of honour.

Realistically, though, the betting may overrate his appeal to the BBC electorate given that none of his triumphs have been available to watch on terrestrial TV. 

Alex Yee

It has been a sensational year for triathlete Alex Yee, who was crowned both world and Olympic champion in 2024.

Gold looked out of reach for the Lewisham athlete in Paris, only for Yee to find a second wind in the closing stages and overhaul New Zealand's Hayden Wilde to win the Olympic title. He also claimed bronzed as part of the mixed team relay at this summer's Games.

Yee supplemented Olympic Gold with World Triathlon Series victories in Cagliari and Weihai to take home the world title for the first time in his career.

Jude Bellingham

English football's new golden boy, Jude Bellingham has enjoyed a meteoric rise to superstar status in the beautiful game.

A move to Real Madrid prior to the 2023-24 campaign paid off handsomely for the 21-year-old, who won the La Liga title and Champions League in his first season at the Bernabeu.

Bellingham went on to help England reach the final of Euro 2024, scoring a memorable last-gasp bicycle kick against Slovakia in the last 16 to keep the Three Lions in with a chance of glory in Germany.

Joe Root

A mainstay of England's team since his debut in India 12 years ago, Joe Root surpassed Sir Alistair Cook as England's greatest Test runscorer in Pakistan in October.

No player has scored more runs in Test match cricket this year than Root and he is now less than 500 runs short of becoming the second-highest runscorer in Test history.

Sarah Storey

Dame Sarah Storey won two cycling gold medals at the Paris Paralympics, extending her record-breaking haul to 19 golds: five in swimming and 14 in cycling.

Storey's remarkable longevity is illustrated by the fact that she is 27 years older than rival Heidi Gaugain, who finished second to her in the C4-5 road race in Paris. 

It would not be a huge surprise if she made the SPOTY podium but most bookmakers are going win only.

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