| 14/9/2022 | Maria Prevolaraki defeats Lucia Yepez Guzman from Ecuador by technical superiority (14-4) at the 53k. category winning the bronze medal at the Belgrade World Wrestling Championships. For the top Greek wrestling champion, it is the 3rd bronze medal in world championships, after those in Alberta, Canada in 2012 (55kg) and in Paris in 2017. |
| 14/9/2021 | Yuri Sedykh, one of track and field’s longest-standing world record holders, dies aged 66. Sedykh, won the Olympic hammer throw gold at both the Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980 Games – plus silver at Seoul in 1988. Competing for the Soviet Union, Sedykh had a world-record throw of 86.74 meters at the 1986 European Championships. In the 35 years leading up to that mark, the men’s hammer world record had been broken 39 times. No one has legally reached or surpassed it in the 35 years since. Sedykh’s career had an impressive longevity, with 15 years between his first Olympic gold and 1991 World title. He retired two years later and moved on to coaching. |
| 14/9/2016 | Greek champion and Paralympic bronze medal winner in Beijing in 2008 John Fernandez wins the gold medal (and 4th gold for Greece) in the shot put class F53 competition, with best shot at 8 meters and 44 cm in his first attempt |
| 14/9/2016 | Pavlos Mamalos wins the gold medal, and tenth overall for Greece, in the Men’s Powerlifting -107 kg competition at the Rio Paralympics lifting 238 kg with a Paralympic record |
| 14/9/2014 | Greece’s national junior women’s water polo team win the gold medal in the European Championships held in Ostia, Italy. The Greek team, coached by Giorgos Morfesis and Stefanos Leandros, beat Italy 7-6 in the FINA Women’s U19 European Championships final and are crowned European champions. Eleftheria Plevritou iss named “Most Valuable Player” (MVP) of the tournament and Chryssi Diamantopoulou is named “Best Goalkeeper”. |
| 14/9/2010 | During the Benfica - Hapoel Tel Aviv (2-0) match, Benfica defender Luisao scores the 5,000th goal in the Champions League main tournament |
| 14/9/2009 | Christos Vartzakis, the oldest Greek athlete, dies aged 98. He participated with the Greek National Teams since he was 19 years old and he won many 5 and 10 km races in the Balkan Games as well as the Marathon Race. At the age of 72 years, he competed in a veterans’ race in Korea, where he finished first, beating many athletes who had half his years. He continued racing until 2004 when he was 93 years old. |
| 14/9/2008 | Charalambos Taiganidis breaks the world record with 59.85, winning the gold medal in men’s 100m backstroke S13 at the Beijing Paralympic Games |
| 14/9/2005 | Udinese captain Vincenzo Iaquinta becomes the fifth player to score a hat-trick on his Champions League debut by scoring 3 goals against Panathinaikos (3-0). Marco van Basten heads the list with his four goals for AC Milan against IFK Gothenburg on 25/11/1992, the first ever Champions League matchday. Down the list are: Faustino Asprilla (17/9/1997 Newcastle-Barcelona 3-2), Yakubu Aiyegbeni (24/9/2002 Maccabi Haifa – Olympiacos 3-0) and Wayne Rooney (28/9/2004 Manchester United – Fenerbahce 6-2) |
| 14/9/2002 | American sprinter Tim Montgomery runs an astonishing 9.78 to set a new 100m world record in Paris |
| 14/9/2001 | Stelios Kazantzidis, the most important folk singer of the post-war period in Greece, dies aged 70. In 1965, he toured Germany along with Mimis Papaioannou, footballer of AEK, while 10 years late, Papaioannou sang AEK’s anthem “Win, Win” written by Kazantzidis & Kolokotronis |
| 14/9/1999 | 25 year-old Randie Carver dies in North Kansas City hospital. He underwent an emergency brain operation for an injury sustained in a boxing match with Kabary Salem |
| 14/9/1999 | The central court in Berlin where the the German Open tennis tournament is held, is named ''Steffi Graf'' in tribute to the former world no1 who retired. Graf won the German Open 9 times in her career |
| 14/9/1999 | 23 year-old Athens College handball player (1992-94) Nikos Kranidiotis and his father Giannos, Greek minister of foreign affairs, die in a plane accident on the way to Bucarest |
| 14/9/1998 | ESAKE allows Aris Salonica to withdraw Nikos Galis' no6. Panionios and Apollon Patras will follow in their footsteps withdrawing Fanis Christodoulou's no4 and Costas Petropoulos' no7 respectively |
| 14/9/1982 | Cindy Nicholas from Canada makes her 19th swim of the English Channel |
| 14/9/1963 | George Best makes his debut with Manchester United at the age of 17. Born on May 22, 1946 Best scored 180 goals for United (in 474 appearances) and 9 goals for Northern Ireland (37 caps). His career in United ended on January 1, 1974 (Manchester Utd - QPR 0-3) |
| 14/9/1955 | First match of the English FA Cup under lights. Kidderminster Harriers face Brierley Hill Alliance |
| 14/9/1927 | American ballet dancer Isadora Duncan, “mother” of modern dance, dies at the age of 50, when her flowing silk scarves winds around the wheel of the running 1924 Amilcar (people believed that the marque of the automobile was Bugatti) driven by her boyfriend |
| 14/9/1891 | John Heath of Wolves scores the first penalty kick in the English football league in a match against Accrington Stanley |
| 14/9/1890 | The sporting and musical club “Orfeas” is founded in Smyrni. Members of the club will establish, 3 years later, the sporting club “Gymnasion” and both clubs will eventually merge in 1898 to form “Panionios Gymnastic Club of Smyrni”. Dimitros Dallas, who will die in 1929, will revive Panionios in Athens after the Minor Asia Disaster |
