Sports Personality of the Year 2024 Odds: Gold medalist Keely Hodgkinson favourite for SPOTY award
The crowning of the 2024 Sports Personality of the Year winner may seem like some time away right now - Sunday 15th December to be precise - but there have been some significant moves in the betting market following the conclusion of the Paris Olympics, including the emergence of Keely Hodgkinson as the new favourite. Below we've looked at the latest odds of the key contenders to win the coveted award.
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Keely Hodgkinson: 8/15
A 20/1 outsider as recently as June, Keely Hodgkinson now has favouritism with the bookmakers after she stormed to 800m gold at the Paris Olympics; the first athletics Olympics gold for a British woman since Jessica Ennis-Hill back at London 2012. The 22-year-old can now be found at just 8/15 (Paddy Power & Betfair) to go on and win SPOTY in December.
Luke Littler: 13/2
Darts sensation Luke Littler, 13/2, needs no introduction having burst onto the scene late last year in a stunning surge to the World Championship Darts final, as a 16-year-old. Littler has since spectacularly proved that this was no one-off showing after winning the Premier League Darts on his debut appearance. He has also claimed two Masters wins, with more notable victories surely to come before the year is out.
Mark Cavendish: 14/1
Mark Cavendish made history in July after the cycling legend won a record-breaking 35th Tour de France stage win at the age of 39. The fifth stage success moved him clear of Eddy Merckx at the top of the overall standings and saw his SPOTY odds shorten to just 3/1, which have since drifted to 14/1 following the success of the aforementioned Hodgkinson. Cavendish, who is set to retire at the end of the year, previously won SPOTY in 2011.
Selected Others
Mountain bike gold medalist Tom Pidcock, who secured the win in dramatic fashion towards the end of the final lap, can be backed at 25/1.
Track cyclist Emma Finucane's odds range from 16/1 right out to 66/1 after she became the first British woman in 60 years to win three medals at a single Olympics; picking up goal and two bronzes in Paris.
Lando Norris, 40/1, is currently challenging Max Verstappen for the Drivers' Championship and won the Miami Grand Prix in May.
Real Madrid and England superstar Jude Bellingham can be found at 66/1, an attractive price given that he won the La Liga and Champions League double at club level then finished runner-up at Euro 2024.
Alex Yee, 80/1, claimed a last-gasp win of his own in the triathlon in Paris and has since added bronze in the relay.