Encyclopedia > BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality is given on an annual basis to the non-British sportsman or sportswoman considered to have made the most substantative contribution to sport in that year. It was first awarded in 1960 to Herb Elliott, the Australian runner. The BBC Sports Personality of the Year award has been given to one British sportsperson each year since 1954. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Herbert James Herb Elliott (February 25, 1938) was an Australian athlete, one of the worlds greatest middle distance runners. ... A runner may be: In modern drug subcultures, a person who delivers drugs to one who is purchasing them, from the drug dealer. ...