Name a winner of BBC Sports Personality of the Year: rare answers

We accept 66 answers to “Name a winner of BBC Sports Personality of the Year” in our Krillion practice game. Most players reach for David Beckham, Lewis Hamilton and Princess Anne, which keeps them near the surface. Deep cuts such as Christopher Chataway, Dorothy Hyman and David Broome score up to 100 points.

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Accepted answers: 66
Category: Sports
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 23 (35%)
Alternate spellings accepted: 1 answers
First letters: 20 different; D is the most common (8)

🐙 Abyssal: 8 answers (12%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 15 answers (23%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 20 answers (30%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 18 answers (27%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 5 answers (8%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

8 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of, including Christopher Chataway, Dorothy Hyman, David Broome and Anita Lonsbrough. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Christopher Chataway, Dorothy Hyman, David Broome, Anita Lonsbrough, Gordon Pirie, David Steele, Dai Rees, Ian Black

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Steve Cram, Tom Simpson, Henry Cooper, Robin Cousins, Steve Ovett, Barry McGuigan, John Curry, Mary Rand, Ann Jones, Mary Peters, Liz McColgan, David Hemery, Tony McCoy, Brendan Foster, Jim Laker

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Joe Calzaghe, Andrew Flintoff, Mary Earps, Geraint Thomas, Paula Radcliffe, Keely Hodgkinson, John Surtees, Beth Mead, Nick Faldo, Virginia Wade, Kelly Holmes, Jonny Wilkinson, Jonathan Edwards, Linford Christie, Ian Botham, Fatima Whitbread, Daley Thompson, Steve Redgrave, Torvill and Dean, Greg Rusedski

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Ryan Giggs, Emma Raducanu, Paul Gascoigne, Lennox Lewis, Mo Farah, Bobby Moore, Jackie Stewart, Rory McIlroy, Zara Phillips, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Mark Cavendish, Sebastian Coe, Steve Davis, Bradley Wiggins, Stirling Moss, Chris Hoy, Ben Stokes

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

David Beckham, Lewis Hamilton, Princess Anne, Andy Murray, Michael Owen

Other spellings we accept

Type any of these and the game counts it as the same answer. Small typos are forgiven on longer answers too.

Princess Anne: Anne, Princess Royal, Princess Royal

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

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