Yahoo News Mo Farah wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2017
Athlete Mo Farah has been named BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2017 at tonight's awards ceremony.
Farah won the prize ahead of motorcylist Jonathan Rea, who came in second place, and Paralympian Jonnie Peacock, who was third in the viewer vote.
Following the announcement, the show cut to a video link with Farah, who was not at the ceremony in person.
He won his third consecutive 10,000m gold at the World Championships and silver in the 5,000m.
Mo Farah has been named BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
Congratulations Mo. #SPOTY pic.twitter.com/22ZiF6Pxfd- BBC Sport (@BBCSport) December 17, 2017
Unfortunately, he didn't get a chance to be interviewed as his video link promptly cut out.
It clearly wasn't his night when it came to being interviewed, as earlier in the evening he'd been interrupted by his young son Hussein having a bit of a tantrum on his knee.
There were a lot of happy viewers following the announcement:
