Mohamed Farah finished fourth in 2012 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award

Mohamed Farah finished fourth in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2012 award.

The 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic champion picked up 8.07% of the 1.5m votes cast on Sunday.

Bradley Wiggins, the Tour de France and Olympic time trial champion, mustered 30.25% of the votes to win the prestigious award.

Jessica Ennis won 22.92% of the votes to finish second, while Andy Murray came third with 14.17%.

Results in full (total votes: 1,626,718)

1. Bradley Wiggins 492,064 (30.25%) 2. Jessica Ennis 372,765 (22.92%) 3. Andy Murray 230,444 (14.17%) 4. Mo Farah 131,327 (8.07%) 5. David Weir 114,633 (7.05%) 6. Ellie Simmonds 102,894 (6.33%) 7. Sir Chris Hoy 42,961 (2.64%) 8. Nicola Adams 35,560 (2.19%) 9. Ben Ainslie 35,373 (2.17%) 10. Rory McIlroy 29,729 (1.83%) 11. Katherine Grainger 28,626 (1.76%) 12. Sarah Storey 10,342 (0.64%)