BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016: Meet the contenders From the section Sports Personality Jump media player Media player help Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Watch: Sports Personality of the Year contenders BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016 Date: Sunday, 18 December. Venue: Genting Arena, Birmingham. Time: 18:40-21:00 GMT. Coverage: BBC One, Radio 5 live, BBC Sport website A rundown of the 16 contenders who have been shortlisted for the 2016 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, to be presented on 18 December. You can vote for your favourite by phone or online on the night during the live show from Birmingham. How to buy tickets How to vote online Nicola Adams - Boxer, age 34 Won the flyweight title again in Rio this year, the first British boxer to retain an Olympic crown for 92 years. Also won her first World Championship gold to complete a "grand slam" of medals, adding to her Olympic, European and Commonwealth victories. Adams, from Leeds, had already made history as the first female fighter to win an Olympic gold medal when she triumphed at London 2012. Sports Personality record: Eighth, 2012. Boxing has provided the award winner five times (Henry Cooper 1967 and 1970, Barry McGuigan 1985, Lennox Lewis 1999, Joe Calzaghe 2007) Gareth Bale - Footballer, age 27 Scored three times as Wales reached the semi-finals of Euro 2016 after qualifying for their first major tournament since 1958. Bale, who joined Real Madrid from Tottenham in 2013 for a then world record fee of £85m, has helped the Spanish side win five trophies in the past three seasons, including the Champions League twice, in 2014 and 2016. He is on the shortlist for the 2016 Ballon d'Or award, and also made the top three for Uefa's Best Player in Europe title which was won by Cristiano Ronaldo. Sports Personality record: Eighth, 2014. Fellow Welshman Ryan Giggs was the last footballer to win - in 2009. Alistair Brownlee - Triathlete, age 28 Became the first man to retain the Olympic men's triathlon title, finishing ahead of brother Jonny, who claimed the silver. The Yorkshireman later made headlines across the world when he selflessly helped his exhausted brother over the line ahead of him in a dramatic end to the Triathlon World Series in Mexico. Alistair won two ITU World Triathlon Series events - in his home city of Leeds, and Stockholm. Sports Personality record: First triathlete to be nominated for the award. Sophie Christiansen - Equestrian, age 29 Won three gold medals in dressage at the Rio Paralympics, taking her career haul to eight. The rider from Berkshire, who has cerebral palsy, was victorious in the individual freestyle, grade 1a championship and mixed team event aboard her beloved horse Athene. In 2016, Christiansen did not finish lower than second in any FEI event she competed in. Sports Personality record: First nomination. Dressage has been represented before, with Charlotte Dujardin finishing fourth in 2014. Kadeena Cox - Athlete/cyclist, age 25 Cycling gold in Rio meant she was the first Briton since 1988 to win a medal in two sports at the same Paralympics. Cox, from Leeds, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis two years ago. She earned a gold in the T38 athletics 400m and triumphed in the C4-5 time trial. She also took athletics silver in the T35-38 4x100m relay and bronze in the T38 100m. Picked to be GB's flagbearer at the Rio closing ceremony, a brilliant year also saw her claim a track cycling World Championship gold in the 500m time trial. Sports Personality record: First nomination. No Paralympian has won the main award, though wheelchair racer David Weir was fifth in 2012.