| 22/5/2021 | Dionisis Xenos defeats Russian champion Evgeny Plakhutin 1-0 in the men’s 67kg final.and wins the gold medal at the 56th EKF European Senior Karate Championships in Porec, Croatia. Apart from Xenos, medals were also won by Vicky Panetsidou (silver) and Elena Hatziliadou, George Tzanos and his brother Christos-Stefanos Xenos (bronze). |
| 22/5/2021 | Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski breaks Gerd Müller's 49-year-old Bundesliga goal-scoring record for a single season when he scores in the last minute of their last match, a 5-2 win over Augsburg, to take his tally to 41 goals – one more than the former Bayern great. |
| 22/5/2017 | American World Superbike Championship rider and 2006 MotoGP winner Nicky Hayden dies, five days after a car collided with his bicycle as he was bicycling along the Crimini coastline in Italy. |
| 22/5/2012 | Former athlete and president of Piraikos AC Dimitris Melidonis dies at the age of 92 years. He won the Greek title 4 times (1949, 1950, 1951, 1952) in 3000 steeple chase with a national record of 9.30.8. He finished fourth at the Alexandria Mediterranean Games of 1951 and 13th at the Euriopean Championship of 1950 in Brussels. |
| 22/5/2012 | Greek swimmer Aris Grigoriadis wins the second European Championship gold medal of his career by finishing first in the 100-meter backstroke final in Debrecen, Hungary, with a time of 53.86 seconds, two-tenths of a second ahead of second-placed Helge Meeuw of Germany. Grigoriadis, who had also won gold in the 50-meter backstroke at Eindhoven four years ago, was also the first ever Greek to win gold at a World Swimming Championship, in 2005, when he came first in the 50-m backstroke final in Montreal, Canada. |
| 22/5/2006 | Kazimierz Gorski from Poland, former coach of Panathinaikos, Olympiacos, Kastoria and Ethnikos, dies of cancer at Warsaw hospital aged 85. Coach of the national team of Poland during the 70’s, he won the gold medal at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972, the third position at the Germany World Cup in 1974 and the silver medal at the Montreal Olympic Games, 2 years later |
| 22/5/2005 | Ernst Henne, the distinguished German motorcycle racer and race car driver, dies at the age of 101. Between 1928 and 1937 he achieved a total of 76 land speed world records with the last set on 28/11/1937, with 279.5 km/h, which stood for 14 years. Henne was one of the most successful German sportsmen of the 30s along with boxer Max Schmeling |
| 22/5/2001 | International Sports and Leisure, the most famous sports marketing company, widely known as ISL, goes bankrupt with a debt of 300 million dollars. FIFA will lose 45 million US dollars, as back in 1996-1997 had sold television and marketing rights of the World Cups 2002 and 2006 to ISL, who then became responsible for attracting commercial sponsors securing FIFA high revenues. In this sense, it is FIFA’s interest to help ISL survive, but the salvage operation will fail. |
| 22/5/1999 | Voula Tsiamita of Panellinios sets new Greek record in triple jump with 14.67m at the ''Papaflessia'' international meeting |
| 22/5/1999 | Manchester United become the first to win three doubles after defeating Newcastle 2-0 at the FA Cup final. Ferguson becomes the first coach to win 4 English FA Cups |
| 22/5/1999 | 27 year-old Mia Hamm scores her 108th goal for the USA national football team in Orlando becoming the all-time scorer in the history of women's football |
| 22/5/1996 | Monica Seles beats Barbara Schett for the Madrid Open - her first european match since the attempt on her life in Hamburg |
| 22/5/1990 | Former world middleweight champion Tomas Rocko Balboa, widely known as Rocky Graziano, dies aged 68 |
| 22/5/1990 | Aris Salonica BC win their 4th consecutive double |
| 22/5/1988 | Ulf Timmermann of East Germany sets new shot put world record with 23.06m at the Venizeleia athletic meeting in Hania, Crete |
| 22/5/1977 | Janet Guthrie becomes the first female driver to qualify for Indianapolis 500 (188m/h speed). On May 28, she runs the race but due to a technical failure she does not make it to the finish. She will come back next year and take 9th place |
| 22/5/1963 | MP, and former Balkan winner in athletics, Grigoris Lambrakis is fatally injured at an assembly for peace and nuclear disarmament in Salonica. He’s transferred to the hospital in a coma but he will die 5 days later, on 27/5/1963 |
| 22/5/1949 | Greece win their first medal (bronze) at the 6th European Basketball Championship held in Cairo. Greece (with Fedon Mattheou as captain) defeated Holland, Lebanon, Turkey and Syria. They lost to France and Egypt. Egypt won the title undefeated |
| 22/5/1906 | The Wright brothers patent the aeroplane |
| 22/5/1900 | The Associated Press is founded |
