14/10/2023 | Vagkan Nanitzanian defeats ??µ???? Narek Manasyan from Armenia in the 92 kgs category semi-final of the EUBC Elite Men Boxing Cup 2023 to win the bronze medal at Budva, Montenegro |
14/10/2023 | 22-year-old swimmer Dimitris Markos wins the second place in the final of the 800m freestyle with 7:58.16 in OAKA, on the 2nd day of the finals at the Swimming World Cup in Athens. The winner was Denmark's Henrik Christianson, who set a Games record (7:51.92). |
14/10/2023 | Lia Gouzini, spouse of Giorgos Scarafigas, performs the duties of first coach after the expulsion of the coach of Amarousio with a second technical foul, 7 minutes before the end of the match against PAOK at the indoor stadium of Agios Thomas, becoming the first female coach in the history of Greek basketball who technically leads a men's team. |
14/10/2022 | The Greek "gold" pole vault champion at the 2014 World Championships in Sopot and "silver" a few years later at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Kostas Filippidis, announces his decision to end his 20-year sports career at the age of 36. |
14/10/2022 | Olympic silver medalist in Tae Kwon Do, Alexandros Nikolaidis, dies at the age of 42 after battling with cancer. Since he was a child, he has been involved in Tae Kwon Do, participating at four Olympic Games (2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012) in the +80 kg category. In 2004 and 2008 he won the silver medal, while he was the flag bearer of the Greek delegation at the London Olympic Games in 2012. After his retirement from sports, he gradually got involved in the public life as a member of SYRIZA, holding the position of deputy press representative. |
14/10/2019 | Greek Fashion Designer Sophia Kokosalaki dies at the age of 46. A native of Athens, Greece, Sophia Kokosalaki got her start at the University of Athens, where she studied Greek & English literature, before realizing that fashion was her passion. In 1999, she started her own fashion label, and quickly became the toast of the fashion elite. She was heralded as a groundbreaking designer by the likes of Vogue, Elle, and Harper's Bazaar, but broke into the mainstream when she was commissioned to design dresses for more than 7000 performers and athletes for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2004 Athens Summer Olympic Games. |
14/10/2019 | Portugal striker Cristiano Ronaldo scores his 700th career goal in his country's Euro 2020 qualifier 2-1 defeat by Ukraine. On top of his goals for Portugal, Ronaldo has scored 450 for Real Madrid, 118 for Manchester United, 32 for Juventus and five for Sporting Lisbon. |
14/10/2018 | FIBA secretary general and International Olympic Committee member Patrick Baumann dies after suffering a heart attack at the age of 51 while working in the World Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. |
14/10/2017 | 27-year-old Greek pole vaulter Katerina Stefanidi is crowned European athlete for 2017 at the Golden Tracks award ceremony that is held in Vilnius. The Olympic champion in Rio, world and European champion became the first Greek woman athlete that achieves such a high distinction. She finished ahead of the shortlisted world high jump champion Mariya Lasitskene from Russia, world heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam from Belgium and world hammer champion Anita Wlodarczyk from Poland. |
14/10/2014 | The Group I Euro 2016 qualifier Serbia - Albania, with no away fans permitted, is interrupted when a flag depicting so-called Greater Albania, an area covering all parts of the Balkans where ethnic Albanians live, was flown over the terraces and pitch by what appeared to be a remote controlled mini drone near the end of the first half. Serbian player Mitrovic grabbed the flag at the Partizan stadium, prompting an angry reaction from Albanian players followed by a brawl between players and fans. After a delay of around half an hour, English referee Martin Atkinson will abandon the game, which stood at 0-0. |
14/10/2012 | 43-year-old Austrian Felix Baumgartner becomes the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound, setting the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres (128,000 ft), reaching an estimated speed of 1,342 kilometres per hour (834 mph), or Mach 1.24, breaking altitude and speed records set half a century ago by retired Air Force colonel Joe Kittinger, now 84. |
14/10/2012 | Panagiotis Spyrou, one of the greatest cardiac surgeons in Greece and former president of both Aris Thessaloniki basketball and football teams, dies of heart attack at the age of 76 years |
14/10/2000 | Cross Farm Park striker, Lee Todd, swears in surprise after the referee blew the whistle for kick-off right behind him and is sent off just two seconds into the Taunton East Reach Wanderers - Cross Farm Park Celtic game, recording the fastest ever sent off in football. |
14/10/1995 | Eleni Vlachou, daughter of Georgios Vlachos, journalist and founder of “Kathimerini” newspaper and granddaughter of Angelos Vlachos, politician and writer, dies at the age of 84. At the age of 25, she was sent to Berlin as a sports representative of her father’s newspaper to the 1936 Olympic Games, where she was the youngest of all 56 women correspondents. In 1951, after her father’s death, she took the reins of “Kathimerini” and ten years later, on 9/10/1961, she issued “Mesimvrini”. On 21/4/1967, following the Chounta she stopped the circulation of all papers, including the “Ikones” magazine and the “Galaxias” publications and went to England where she developed strong action against the dictatorship. As a chronicler, she signed by "E.", she loved chess and played regularly with Spyros Markezinis, who served as prime minister for eighteen months in 1973. |
14/10/1979 | Wayne Gretzky scores his first goal in NHL |
14/10/1973 | The three times world champion Jackie Stewart from Scotland announces his retirement from F1 races at the age of 34 and his wish to become an ABC-TV commentator. His family were Jaguar dealers and he was involved in racing because of his older brother Jimmy who was a driver and competed in the 1953 British Grand Prix. When Jimmy was injured in a car crash at Le Mans his family discouraged Jackie, who took up "target shooting" and almost made it to the Olympics, but only just missed the team in 1960 |
14/10/1968 | American sprinter Jim Hineas smashes the 100m world record (9.95) at the Mexico Olympics |
14/10/1960 | Semi-professionalism and free trading are established by decision of the greek government |
14/10/1951 | In a friendly match at Marseille Vellodrome, Greece is defeated by the second team of France with 1-0. The Greek team, coached by Yannis Helmis, is based on AEK and Panathinaikos players. At the same time another national team of Greece based on Olympiacos players wins Syria with 4-0 in Alexandria, Egypt |
14/10/1916 | Philadelphia's Long Jim Barnes becomes the first to win the Professional Golfers Association championship |
14/10/1878 | Two teams from Sheffield play the first football match under lights |