Here's how to vote Jonathan Rea for 2017 Sports Personality of the Year

Voting opens from 6.45pm Sunday night 🏍️🙌🏆

PressEye
Author: Paulo RossPublished 16th Dec 2017
Last updated 16th Dec 2017

Three-time World Superbike Champion Jonathan Rea will go up against sporting stars such as Lewis Hamilton, Anthony Joshua, Chris Froome and Johanna Konta at Sunday's BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

The last time a rider was nominated was when James Toseland won his second World Championship back in 2007. He finished fourth in the contest with 84,570 votes behind winner Joe Calzaghe with Lewis Hamilton and Ricky Hatton second and third.

HOW TO WATCH:

The show will be live on BBC One from 18:45

HOW TO VOTE:

Online:

Voting is only open during the show and to vote online you need to have a BBC account. Head to http://account.bbc.com/register to create one so you can vote during the show by heading to the Sports Personality website at www.bbc.co.uk/spoty and clicking ‘Vote Now’

By phone:

During the show, presenters will give out the number to ring to vote for your favourite contestant (who’ll clearly be Jonathan Rea!). Just ring up and cast your vote, simple!

SPREAD THE WORD

It’s important that we shout as loud as we can about this to get Jonathan as many votes as possible. During the show, Facebook it, Tweet it #SPOTYvoteJR, Instagram it, Snapchat it, shout it from the rooftops, whatever you can do!

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