BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality
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The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality is given on an annual basis to the non-British sportsperson considered to have made the most substantative contribution to sport in that year. It was first awarded in 1960 to Herb Elliott.
Subsequent winners have been:
- 1961 Valery Brumel
- 1962 Donald Jackson
- 1963 Jacques Anquetil
- 1964 Abebe Bikila
- 1965 Jointly awarded - Ron Clarke and Gary Player
- 1966 Jointly awarded - Eusebio and Garfield Sobers
- 1967 George Moore
- 1968 Jointly awarded - Oleg Protopopov and Ljudmilla Belovsova
- 1969 Rod Laver
- 1970 Pelé
- 1971 Lee Trevino
- 1972 Olga Korbut
- 1973 Muhammad Ali
- 1974 Muhammad Ali
- 1975 Arthur Ashe
- 1976 Nadia Comaneci
- 1977 Niki Lauda
- 1978 Muhammad Ali
- 1979 Björn Borg
- 1980 Jack Nicklaus
- 1981 Chris Evert
- 1982 Jimmy Connors
- 1983 Carl Lewis
- 1984 Björn Borg
- 1985 Boris Becker
- 1986 Greg Norman
- 1987 Martina Navratilova
- 1988 Steffi Graf
- 1989 Mike Tyson
- 1990 Mal Meninga
- 1991 Mike Powell
- 1992 Andre Agassi
- 1993 Greg Norman
- 1994 Brian Lara
- 1995 Jonah Lomu
- 1996 Jointly awarded - Evander Holyfield and Michael Johnson
- 1997 Martina Hingis
- 1998 Mark O'Meara
- 1999 Maurice Greene
- 2000 Tiger Woods
- 2001 Goran Ivanisevic
- 2002 Ronaldo
- 2003 Lance Armstrong
- 2004 Roger Federer