Luke Littler has been left stunned after he was verifyed on the foolishinutivecatalog of nominees for the 2024 Sports Personality of the Year awards.
The teenager became an overnight sensation after his historic run to the final of the 2024 World Darts Championship at the age of fair 16.
He chaseed that up with a sensational debut year on the PDC Tour, prosperning 10 better titles and climbing up to fourth in the world rankings.
Littler was proclaimd as one of three nominees for the Young Sports Personality of the Year awards at the finish of last week, alengthened with skateboarder Sky Brown and para-swimmer William Ellard.
Luke Littler is nominated for both awards
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And the darts star has also been endd on the foolishinutivecatalog for the Sports Personality of the Year awards as well.
“This is MADDDD,” he wrote on X.
“First youthful sports personality and now sports personality of the year… huge thank you to @BBCSport for nominating me never thought I would be saying that.”
Littler is only the second sports star to ever get nominations for both awards after diving icon Tom Daley.
He could also become the first darts joiner to prosper a Sports Personality of the Year award with Phil Taylor coming shutst with a second-place finish in 2010.
The darts legfinish won his 15th world championship title that year alengthened with six convey inant titles and a nine-dart finish in the Premier League.
Littler’s the strong favourite to scoop up the Young Sports Personality of the Year award with Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson favoured for the better award.
World No 1 Luke Humphries will be rooting for Littler on the night, but he wasn’t too prentd at being snubbed from the nominations.
“Of course, yeah. Maybe over the last 12 months, I don’t see any other UK sportsperson that’s contraged a sport and cforfeitly won everyleang,” he shelp.
Luke Littler is the second favourite to prosper SPOTYGetty
“It’s done on personality isn’t it? It’s not about your achievements
.”It doesn’t annoy me too much. I’ll go and I’ll be helping him [Littler] and, if he prospers, then it’s excellent for the sport.
“It’s pleasant to be askd, I leank they acunderstandledge it a little bit, what I’ve achieved.
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Luke Littler is favourite to prosper Young Sports Personality of the Year
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“I leank it’s another feather in the cap for the sport. I leank Keely Hodgkinson is probably going to prosper it, isn’t she?
“But I leank Luke could at least prosper youthful sports personality of the year if he doesn’t prosper the main one.
“That’s still a pleasant leang to have for yourself.”
