The Overseas Personality award was first presented in 1960, six years after the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award was introduced. The first recipient of the award was Australian
middle distance runner
Herb Elliott. Since then, the award has been presented to 53 sportspersons. Swiss tennis player
Roger Federer has won the award four times. American boxer
Muhammad Ali and Jamaican
sprinter Usain Bolt have both won the award three times. The award has been shared on three occasions—by
Ron Clarke and
Gary Player in 1965,
Eusébio and
Garfield Sobers in 1966, and
Evander Holyfield and
Michael Johnson in 1996. The husband-and-wife skating duo of
Oleg Protopopov and
Ludmila Belousova are the only pair to have won the award, doing so in 1968. Fourteen sporting disciplines have been represented; tennis has the highest representation, with fifteen recipients. Only one winner has ever been stripped of the award – US cyclist
Lance Armstrong, whose 2003 award was rescinded following the UCI's 2012 decision to strip him of his titles and ban him for life from the sport. In 2018, the award was renamed BBC World Sport Star of the Year. Along with the change of name, votes could be cast from outside of the UK for the first time. ==Nomination procedure==