Boxer Amir Khan was awarded the 'Sports Personality of the Year' 2007 prize on February 16th 2008 at the British Asian Sports Awards (BASA). This year, BASA - the UK's only Asian Sports Awards programme - acknowledged a variety of sporting fields and abilities, with winners including Amir Khan, Ajmal Maqsood Ahmed (Football), Jatinder Singh Rakhra (Wrestling), Vishwanathan Anand (Chess), Azeem Rafiq (Cricket), Vikash Dhorasoo (Lifetime Achievement), Thomas John (Badminton) and Nischele Patel (Tae Kwondo) and Maira Malik (Martial Arts) in the Junior Sports Personality categories. Businessman Nat Puri was honoured for his commitment to sport.

Sports Personality Of The Year 2007 Amir Khan (Boxing) The IBF - Intercontinental Champion, commonwealth light weight champ, ranked 4 in WBO world light weight rankings. He recently successfully defended his Commonwealth Lightweight Title.

Outstanding Achievement Award Ajmal Maqsood Ahmed (Football) Ajmal plays for the Blind England Football Team. He has won over 50 caps for England. Playing in 4 European Championships and 4 World Cups for England. Ajmal is the first British Asian to play football for the England team.

Most Up & Coming Sports Personality Of The Year 2007 Jatinder Singh Rakhra (Wrestling) Represents Great Britain in National and International tournaments. Jatinder has been 8 times British Champion. He is also representing GB 2008 Senior Olympic qualifiers for Beijing also in Olympic hopeful team for 2012 and Commonwealth Games 2010.

Junior Sports Personality Of The Year 2007 - Male U18 Azeem Rafiq (Cricket) Previously England U16 Captain and has an Academy contract at Yorkshire CCC. Azeem is the youngest player ever to be on the ECB. He has also been 12th man for Yorkshire CCC. He is believed to be the first Yorkshire player of Asian background to captain an England side at any level.

Junior Sports Personality Of The Year 2007 - Female U18 Nischele Patel (Tae Kwondo) Represents Great Britain and is seeded number 3 in the UK. In the British National Championships in 2007, Nischele gained a bronze.

Young Sports Personality Of The Year 2007 U10 Maira Malik (Martial Arts) Maira is a schoolgirl who has achieved her Red Belt and Junior Black Belt, and has been chosen to be in the demonstration team for her martial arts club in Liverpool.

Lifetime Achievement Vikash Dhorasoo Ex French midfielder, who is the only Asian to have played in a football World Cup final.

Coach of the Year 2007 Thomas John (Badminton) Coaching for past 25 years, Thomas coached national champions and World Class players from 1999. He also coached a silver medallist at Commonwealth Games 2006.

After receiving his award, Sports Personality of the Year winner Amir Khan commented: "It is a great honour to be recognised by BASA for this award - both personally and publicly. There is a lot of sporting talent out there in the British Asian community, and it is award programmes like this that inspire more to come forward and be counted. I feel really proud to be in a position to encourage more young people to enter professional sports."

BASA founder, Rajan Singh added: "BASA is now in its 7th year and is continuing to go from strength to strength. You only have to look at the sheer calibre of this year's winners to see the wealth of Asian sporting talent this country has to offer."