Round-the-world yachting heroine and record breaker Ellen MacArthur has been named runner-up in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards.
England football captain David Beckham was voted the overall BBC Sports Personality of the Year and fellow England footballer Michael Owen was third
Earlier in the evening Ellen MacArthur was also presented with the Helen Rollason Award for courage and achievement in the face of adversity by Tanni Grey-Thompson.
The awards followed Ellen's spectacular year with her second place in the Vendee Globe, victory in the Challenge Mondial race and most recently her second place in the Transat Jacques Vabre race.
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