Andy Murray wins record third BBC sports award

Britain’s world number one men’s tennis player Andy Murray won a record third BBC Sports Personality of the Year award on Sunday.

“It’s been a great year for British sport and I am so proud to have been a part of it,” Murray, who led Britain to the Davis Cup semi-finals after their first triumph for 79 years in 2015, said via a video link from his training camp in Miami.

“A huge thanks to my wife and my daughter – she won’t know what this means yet but maybe in a few years she will.

“Actually, I’ve got a bone to pick with my wife because about an hour ago she told me she’d voted for Nick Skelton. Not smart from her with Christmas coming up,” he said.