Young Sports Personality of the Year shortlist features Tom Daley and Laura Robson

Tom Daley and Laura Robson have both been named on a shortlist of 10 to be crowned Young Sports Personality of the Year.

Daley is the current holder of the award, which had its inaugural year in 2001.

The first recipient was Amy Spencer, and she was followed by Wayne Rooney, Kate Haywood, Andy Murray, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Theo Walcott and Daley.

The panel, that includes former winners Aikines-Aryeetey and Haywood, will meet later in November to reduce the 10 to just three.

Daley, at just 14 years old, is already an Olympian, having represented Team GB in Beijing.

He reached the finals in both the 10m synchro and individual platform competition, coming eighth and seventh respectively.

However, he faces stiff competition to retain his crown from Robson.

The 16-year-old was the darling of Wimbledon this year, becoming the first Briton to win a junior singles title at SW19 since Annabel Croft in 1984.

She has now become the youngest British player to compete on the WTA Tour, and won her first senior event on Nov 9.

Daley and Robson won't have it all their own way, though. Like Daley, Aaron Cook was another find of the Olympics.

The taekwondo star, now 17, finished fifth overall in the 80kg weight category, where the average age of those competing was 26.

Meanwhile, canoeist Tom Brady won silver at the 2008 Junior European Championships, picking up GB's first junior men's kayak individual medal since 1992.

Sam Harrison is the next generation of cyclist who is expected to carry on Great Britain's gold-medal success at London 2012, while James Peters is one of the rising stars of British sailing, after winning the 29er competition at the 2008 European Championship.

Scott Redding put himself in the spotlight this season when he won the 125cc race at the British GP, in what was only his eighth race, and, in doing so, became the youngest-ever winner of any MotoGP class.

Eleanor Simmonds became the nation's youngest-ever individual Paralympic gold medallist in Beijing, at the age of just 13, while Elizabeth Simmonds finished sixth in the Olympics 200m backstroke and placed 10th in the 100m backstroke.

The only athletics star on the list is 16-year-old Shaunna Thompson, who won a sprint double at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games in the 100m and 200m.