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Hamilton wins Sports Personality

Lewis Hamilton has been voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014. The 29-year-old Mercedes driver won his second Formula 1 world title this season and joined an exclusive club by becoming the fourth Briton to win the drivers' championship at least twice. Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy was runner-up, with athlete Jo Pavey third. 'I was sitting there saying Rory's going to have it,' said Hamilton, who earned 34% of the vote. 'I thought it had to be someone else.' The Englishman won 209,920 of the 620,932 votes cast, with McIlroy getting 123,745 (20%) and Pavey 99,913 (16%). 'I want to say a huge thank you to all the people who called in, I really wasn't expecting it,' he added....
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