| 18/3/2023 | Giorgos Kougioumtsidis defends his European U23 champion title by winning the gold medal in the 79kg. of freestyle wrestling, after defeating Georgian Gamrkelindze 6-4 in the final in Romania |
| 18/3/2023 | Thanasis Kyfidis wins the gold medal at the European Championship in the ILCA 6 race in the U21 category held in Italy. The 18-year-old athlete from NO Vouliagmeni and member of the National team took first place after 11 races and 27 penalty points. Italian Mattia Cessana took the 2nd place and the silver medal, and Italian Rocco Wright won the bronze medal. |
| 18/3/2023 | Fencer Dora Gundura is defeated by China's Shao Yaqi 15/8 to win bronze at the Women's Epee World Cup in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. Despina Georgiadou is placed 5th in the same event |
| 18/3/2022 | Following the gold medal in long jump (with a performance of 8.41) at the 2021 Olympic Games, Miltos Tentoglou wins the gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade with 8.55, which is a national record and the seventh-best jump in the history of indoor athletics. |
| 18/3/2022 | Petros Linardos, father of the international basketball player Nikos Linardos and founder and president of the Panhellenic Sports Press Association (PSAT) for 16 years, dies at the age of 97. The patriarch of Sports Journalism started from the "Mathitiki Pena" of the Evangelical School of Nea Smyrni, while from 1950 until today he was a journalist of the newspaper "To Vima". |
| 18/3/2017 | Theodoros Nikolaidis, journalist, publisher, founder and owner-manager of the daily sporting newspaper "Fos Ton Spor", which played a leading role in the post-war history of Greek sports, dies at the age of 92. 20 years ago, newspaper “Eleftherotypia” had mentioned the following quote for Nikolaidis: "On the wheel of the newspaper there is a man who is almost mythical in the field of printed sports journalism. It is Mr. Theodoros Nikolaidis. A man almost invisible! Photos of him rarely circulate. He doesn’t give interviews... » |
| 18/3/2016 | Katerina Stefanidi finishes third in the women’s pole vault final during the very first day of the World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Portland. The Greek champion cleared 4.80 meters to claim bronze in the championship. |
| 18/3/1992 | NFL owners vote to drop the use of instant videotape replays to settle dispute calls during games |
| 18/3/1980 | Sir Ludwig “Poppa” Guttmann, the German neurologist, founder of the Paralympic Games dies at the age of 80. In 1944, he was asked by the British government to found the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire. Since he believed that sport was a method of therapy, he organized on 28/7/1948 the World Wheelchair and Amputee Games for athletes with disabilities, which in 1960, were organized for the first time outside England, in Rome, and were later known as the 1st Paralympic Games. |
| 18/3/1976 | During practice at N. Philadelphia, Skrekis, Dedes, Papadopoulos, Ravoussis and other AEK footballers drink the water of 36-year-old lawyer Giorgos Kamateros, who, one month before, had announced that his "magic water" heals cancer. Some days later, it will be proven that the water was "plain water" and the lawyer will leave Greece |
| 18/3/1973 | Independiente striker Maglioni scores the fastest hat trick in football history against Gimnasia Escrimo del Plata (1 minute and 50'') |
| 18/3/1945 | During the final match of the NHL championship, Maurice “Rocket” Richard becomes the first player who scores 50 points in a season, a record that will last for 36 years |
| 18/3/1922 | First match of the first intercollegiate water polo championship (Princeton vs Yale) |
| 18/3/1900 | Ajax FC founded in Amsterdam. After defeating Panathinaikos in the final at Wembley, Ajax won 3 consecutive European Championship titles (1971,1972,1973). The fourth title came in 1995, after defeating Milan 1-0 |
| 18/3/1893 | Lord Stanley of Preston purchases a silver cup for 50 dollars for presentation to the amateur hockey champion of Canada |
| 18/3/1892 | New horse racing rules issued by which jockeys are not allowed to use anything but a whip or spur on a horse during the race |
| 18/3/1584 | Ivan the Terrible, crowned Russia’s first Tsar at the age of 17, dies, the moment he starts to play a chess game. He was the grandson of Ivan the Great (III) and was also known as the “Grand Prince all over the Rus” |
