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Sports Personality of the Year 2023: Mary Earps wins award

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England goalkeeper Mary Earps has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023.

Earps, 30, was the Lionesses’ standout player as they reached a first World Cup final in the summer and was given the Golden Glove for the best goalkeeper at the tournament.

It is the second year in a row a women’s footballer has won the award.

England cricketer Stuart Broad was second, with world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson third.

Jockey Frankie Dettori, wheelchair tennis player Alfie Hewett and golfer Rory McIlroy were also shortlisted for the award by a panel of experts, with the winner decided by a public vote.

Manchester United’s Earps followed Lionesses team-mate Beth Mead in being named Sports Personality of the Year and became the third woman to win it in a row – the first time that has happened since the 1960s.

The Fifa Best Women’s Goalkeeper played every minute of England’s seven World Cup matches, conceding only four goals and keeping three clean sheets as well as saving a penalty in the final, which England lost 1-0 to Spain.

She was also part of England’s Euro 2022 triumph, helping the Lionesses to win their first major trophy.

Earps was voted England Women’s Player of the Year for 2022-23 and finished fifth in the voting for the Ballon d’Or award.

The BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year was also integral as England won the inaugural Women’s Finalissima with a penalty shootout defeat of Brazil in April.

In domestic football, Earps claimed the Women’s Super League Golden Glove for the 2022-23 season with Manchester United, having kept a record 14 clean sheets.

She also became the first goalkeeper to keep 50 clean sheets in the WSL.

Earps’ remarkable turnaround

Earps’ journey to the top has not been a straightforward one – she was an outcast and on the brink of retirement before emerging as one of the most globally recognised goalkeepers in women’s football.

Having sat on the bench as England’s third-choice goalkeeper at the 2019 World Cup, Earps was not included in Phil Neville’s next Lionesses squad and would not represent her country until 2021.

But she has turned her fortunes around, consolidating her position as England and United’s undisputed number one, starting every game as the Lionesses won Euro 2022 and reached the 2023 World Cup final.

She has become a firm fan favourite, and the latest batch of replica Earps England goalkeeper shirts sold out within five minutes after kit supplier Nike faced a backlash having failed to produce any during the World Cup.

Earps, who away from football has a degree in information management and business studies, is stopped for photographs, spotted at airports and in the street – and even has a bus and a tram named after her in her hometown Nottingham.

Despite England’s defeat in the World Cup final, Earps made crucial saves throughout the tournament.

She has been linked with a move to Arsenal in the January transfer window.

But the keeper’s hopes of more accolades on the world stage took a blow after England failed to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics on behalf of Great Britain.

Presented by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding, Gabby Logan and Alex Scott, the Sports Personality of the Year 2023 was broadcast live from MediaCityUK, Salford.

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