“(I am) Happy to have been named outstanding Sports Personality of the Year in 2020. I thank God for all His blessings. Thanking my family, teammates, and everyone who in one way or the other helped me achieve this feat,” he wrote on Twitter. The Qatar-based footballer Olunga was feted in absentia during the annual Sports Personality of the Year awards held in Naivasha on Saturday as he is away in Doha on duty. His younger sibling Victor collected the award. Despite a Covid-19 ravaged sports season, Olunga outscored all the players in Japan’s top-flight league in 2020, finding the back of the net a record 27 times.