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- 2 Time SPOTY award Winner Hamilton is already a 4/1 favourite for 2022 with betting sites.
- Current Holder Emma Raducanu will need something special to retain her honour.
- Bookmakers going 8/1 for Harry Kane - A World Cup Win would help
- George Russell could be the dark horse racing with Hamilton at Mercedes at 14/1
Betting has already begun on who will win The Sports Personality of the Year Award in 2022 with sharp punters ploughing in on Lewis Hamilton considering him a certainty if he can land a record 8th F1 Drivers Championship title this season and tipping him to win
The main rivals right now include current holder Emma Raducanu who will surely have to emulate or even surpass her incredible feat of winning the US Open in her Majors Debut year in 2021, and Harry Kane who some optimistic punters might be favouring at double-figure odds based on the chance of England winning the Football World Cup in Qatar
SPOTY 2022 Betting Odds
| Sportsperson | Sport | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis Hamilton | Motor Racing | 4/1 | 20.0% |
| Harry Kane | Football | 8/1 | 11.11% |
| Emma Raducanu
|
Tennis | 12/1 | 7.69% |
| George Russell | Motor Racing | 14/1 | 6.67% |
| Heather Knight | Cricket | 14/1 | 6.67%
|
| Sarah Hunter | Rugby | 14/1 | 6.67%
|
If Hamilton were able to land a third award he would equal Andy Murray who also has won the award three times with wins in 2013, 2015 and 2016.
Hamilton is on the verge of history having won the Driver Championship the same seven times (2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) as Michael Schumacher.
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Ladies to the Fore
Emma Raducanu became the first woman to win the coveted award since Zara Phillips in 2006.
Women's Cricket and Rugby have grown in popularity in the last few years offering more options for the fairer sex to compete for the award in what has been a male-dominated honour list since, Paula Radcliffe (2002), and Dame Kelly Holmes (2004), joined Zara Phillips in scooping the award for women 3 times in five years in the 2000s
Heather Knight (Cricket) and Sarah Hunter (Rugby) will be thereabout with good seasons.
