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| Andy Murray has been crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year for the second time at the SSE Arena in Belfast. |
Tennis star Murray, who ended Great Britain's 79 year wait for a Davis Cup title, beat rugby league star Kevin Sinfield into second place with athletics icon Jessica Ennis-Hill in third.
Murray said "I didn't expect this - a friend actually sent me a message the other day with an article from a newspaper which said Andy Murray is duller than a weekend in Worthing, which I thought was a bit harsh - on Worthing.
"It's very humbling to be up here in front of so many great athletes - I'm just a great sports fan and I'm really nervous.
"This has been a five-year journey - we were right down at the bottom level or tennis and now we're ranked number one in the world and I never thought that would be possible."
Murray, who also picked up the Team of the Year award along with his Davis Cup team-mates, had started a narrow favourite to win the award over Ennis-Hill.
But a sustained campaign by the rugby league community paid off as Sinfield - the first nominee from his sport - pipped his fellow Yorkshire athlete into second place.
Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill was a popular winner of the Coach of the Year award after leading his nation to the Euro 2016 finals.
Jockey AP McCoy received the Lifetime Achievement Award after bringing his illustrious career to a close in April.
McCoy - who won the main Sports Personality prize in 2010 - retired after riding 4,357 winners and being crowned Champion Jockey 20 consecutive times.
Former All Blacks fly-half Dan Carter paid an emotional tribute to Jonah Lomu after picking up the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award.
The 33-year-old Carter ended his international career by leading New Zealand to a World Cup triumph in England in the summer. But the victory was overshadowed by the death of Lomu - who had won the same award in 1995 - in November.
Carter said: "He is an absolute legend of the sport and it was a shock to the people who knew him and the sporting community.
"He changed the sport forever. I was lucky enough to get to know him - he was such a caring and thoughtful guy and he will be missed by everyone."
List of winners:
Sports Personality: 1. Andy Murray, 2 Kevin Sinfield, 3. Jessica Ennis-Hill;
Coach of the Year: Michael O'Neill;
Team of the Year: Great Britain Davis Cup;
Overseas Personality: Dan Carter;
Young Personality; Ellie Downie;
Helen Rollason Award: Bailey Matthews;
Lifetime achievement: AP McCoy.
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