Britain’s sports journalists have named Bradley Wiggins and Jessica Ennis as their top sportsmen and women of 2012.

With the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year Award still more than a week away, the Sports Journalists Association have given their verdicts on the year’s top sporting achievements.

Tour de France and Olympic time trial winner Wiggins topped the poll for Sportsman of the Year, ahead of double track gold medallist Mo Farah and US Open tennis champion Andy Murray.

More predictably, the Sportswoman of the Year award – for the third time in four years  – went to Britain’s Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis, who polled two-thirds of the votes cast, with double sculls gold medallist Katherine Grainger in second place and cycling gold medallist Laura Trott third.

Europe’s Ryder Cup team, including seven British golfers, were runaway winners of Team of the Year, having retained the trophy in the United States.

Barry Newcombe, chairman of the SJA committee which organises the awards, said:  “It’s been probably the greatest year in the history of British sport, and certainly one of the busiest for our members.”