TheClockwise from top left are: Tom Daley, Tyson Fury, Adam Peaty, Sarah Storey, and Raheem Sterling.
There are six candidates for the 2021 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
The nominees are a diver, a boxer, a swimmer, a tennis player, and a paralympian.
Voting will be open on the show on the 19th.
Gary Lineker, Clare Balding, Gabby Logan and Alex Scott will present the awards.
The Olympics and the Paralympics will be celebrated in the programme, which was filmed at Media City.
The public can vote by phone or online on the night of the show, with full details announced during the show.
Other awards to be announced include Young Sports Personality of the Year, Team and Coach of the Year, World Sport Star of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and Unsung Hero.
Who are the top sports personality?
At his fourth Olympics, he became an Olympic diving champion with his partner.
The public has watched as he won major titles, shared his grief when he lost his father to cancer, and was joy when he married and became a father.
13 years after his Olympic debut, he claimed an emotional triumph at the Games in Tokyo.
The first British diver to claim four Olympic medals was the winner of the men's 10m platform.
The sports personality of 2021.
In Las Vegas in October, Tyson Fury retained his title with a thrilling 11th-round win over Deontay Wilder.
He was knocked down twice in the fourth round and then knocked out the other in the ninth to retain his title.
The first fight in the trilogy between the two boxers was a controversial draw, but it confirmed that the British boxer was the dominant force in the fight.
John revealed that his son had undergone surgery on both of his elbows after suffering a serious injury.
Tyson Fury is the sports personality of 2021.
Peaty became the first British swimmer to defend an Olympic title when he won the 100m breaststroke in Tokyo.
He won Britain's first gold medal of the Games.
Peaty was the only swimmer to dip under 57 seconds in this race, and he remains the only swimmer to dip under 16 seconds over the distance in history.
He was a part of the mixed 4x 100m medley relay team that won the gold medal and the men's medley relay team that won the silver.
Adam Peaty is the sports personality of 2021.
A 44-year wait for a British women's Grand Slam singles champion ended with the US Open win of Raducanu.
She was the first qualified to win a Grand Slam title and she did it in straight sets.
The youngest women's Slam champion since 2004 was Maria Sharapova, who won Wimbledon as a 17-year-old in 2004.
While waiting for her A-level results, the teenager had emerged as a star at Wimbledon, overcoming her ranking of 335 to reach the fourth round before retiring from her last-16 match due to breathing difficulties.
Emma is the sports personality of 2021.
England reached the final of a major tournament for the first time in 55 years before losing to Italy on penalties, but it was the performance of sterling that made the difference.
England's historic win over Germany in the last 16 was one of the goals the Manchester City forward scored.
Three players from England, including Kyle Walker, were selected for the team of the tournament by Uefa.
He scored 10 goals in the 2020-21 season as City won the title for the third time in four years.
The sports personality of 2021.
Storey became the most successful Paralympian of all time with his 17th gold.
In Tokyo, Storey defended her women's C4-5 road race title, which she had held since London 2012 to put her one gold ahead of previous record holder Mike Kenny.
She won her third gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympics, her eighth Games since making her debut as a 14-year-old swimmer.
She took her overall medal tally to 28 as she won the time-trial gold and the individual pursuit on the track.
Sarah Storey is a sports personality.
