Norfolk tennis player Alfie Hewett on Sports Personality of the Year shortlist
He won seven singles tournaments, including the Australian and US Opens in 2023
Norfolk wheelchair tennis player Alfie Hewett's up for the Sports Personality of the Year Award.
The 26 year old's had an incredible 2023 - winning seven singles tournaments, including the Australian and US Opens.
He's joined by England goalkeeper Mary Earps, retired cricketer Stuart Broad, former jockey Frankie Dettori, athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson and golfer Rory McIlroy.
The winner will succeed England footballer Beth Mead for the title.
30-year-old goalkeeper Earps helped England reach the Women's World Cup final back in August before eventually losing out 1-0 to winners Spain in the final. She was awarded the Golden Glove by keeping three clean sheets throughout the tournament.
The Manchester United stopper is currently the bookmakers runaway favourite to take the award after picking up further accolades.
She was named England Women player of the year, came fifth in the voting for the 2023 Ballon d'Or Feminin award - the highest-ever ranking for a goalkeeper - and kept a Women's Super League record 14 clean sheets for United last season.
Broad will be aiming to become the first cricketer to win the award since 2019 when Ben Stokes collected the award.
He became England's second leading Test wicket taker with 604 before announcing his retirement on the penultimate day of the fifth and final Ashes Test and helping them draw the series against Australia at the Oval by taking a wicket with his final ball bowled and hitting a six off the last ball he faced.
Liverpool-born Johnson-Thompson came back from injury to win her second world title in Budapest this year.
Her build-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was undermined by an Achilles injury which forced her to pull out but the 30-year-old bounced back with a Commonwealth Games title in Birmingham last year and then conquered the world again in Budapest.
Three-time British flat racing champion jockey Dettori triumphed in two British classics this year, winning the 2000 Guineas on Chaldean and the Oaks on Soul Sister and is joined on the list by wheelchair tennis player Hewett and world number two in golf McIlroy.
Hewett was 2023 Australian Open and US Open singles champion and also claimed three of the four grand slam titles on offer in doubles alongside Gordon Reid, while McIlroy was the top points scorer in Europe's Ryder Cup victory.
The winner of the public vote will be announced on the night of the live show on Tuesday, December 19.