HOLLIE Doyle has been shortlisted along with five other sportspeople for this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

The other nominees are cricketer Stuart Broad, boxer Tyson Fury, Formula 1’s Lewis Hamilton, footballer Jordan Henderson and snooker star Ronnie O’Sullivan.

Doyle is the only woman to be named on the shortlist. The winner will be announced on Sunday, December 20th as part of a broadcast on BBC One.

Sir Anthony McCoy is the only jockey to have won the BBC award, doing so in 2010 after finally winning the Grand National. He placed third in 2002 and 2013. Frankie Dettori was also third in 1996, the year he rode all seven winners on the card at Ascot.

McCoy won the RTÉ version in 2013, the year he rode his 4,000th winner over jumps.

Barry Geraghty won the Irish accolade in 2003, the year he won the Grand National on Monty’s Pass.

Doyle has enjoyed a sensational year, adding numerous accolades to her already illustrious CV.

The 24-year-old broke her own record set in 2019 (116) for wins achieved by a woman during a calendar year in Britain and is currently on 136 wins for 2020.

She also finished fourth in the 2020 flat jockeys’ championship, the highest ever placing by a woman and became the first woman to ride five winners (cumulative odds of 899/1) on the same card at Windsor in August.

Earlier in the year she enjoyed her first Royal Ascot winner and she dominated Britain’s most valuable raceday, QIPCO British Champions Day in October, emerging as the leading rider on the day with two winners and two second places, having clinched her first Group 1 winner.

She commented: “I’m really pleased that racing has been recognised. We compete against men every day and we’re equals on and off the track.

“It is important for racing and for setting examples for other sports that this is recognised and that we are referred to as jockeys rather than ‘female’ jockeys.”