| 8/11/2016 | Stephen Curry sets a new NBA single-game record for three-pointers with 13
and scores a season-high 46 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 116-106 win over the New Orleans Pelicans. Curry was one of three players to hold the previous record of 12 three-pointers in a game, tying the mark last season on 27/2. Kobe Bryant set the record of 12 in January 2003, and Donyell Marshall matched it in March 2005. |
| 8/11/2015 | Olympiakos defeats Lavrio 108-39 for the 5th matchday of the SKRATS Basketball League. The 69-points difference (108-39) is the largest in the history of A1 for Olympiacos breaking their previous record of 123-58 against Pagrati during the 1994-1995 season (January 14th). For the record, the largest difference in A1, is that of the 91 points of Aris against Near East (153-62) in 1986. Vassilis Spanoulis exceeds 4,500 points in the ESAKE era (1992 onwards) chasing Panagiotis Liadelis. 108 points is the largest score recorded this year overtaking the 107 points of Panathinaikos against Kolossos. Olympiacos make a defense record of 39 points breaking their own record against Arkadikos with 44 points in Peace & Friendship Stadium. |
| 8/11/2015 | The 33rd Athens Classic Marathon Race, organized by SEGAS in memory of Grigoris Lambrakis, is conducted in collaboration with the Municipality of Athens and Marathonas. A total of 43,000 runners participate in all distances, with 16,000 of them in the marathon race, a record number in the history of the tournament. Christoforos Meroussis (GRE) is the winner in the men’s category with 2:21:22 and Hayakori Minori (JPN) in the women’s category with 2:52:06. |
| 8/11/2013 | At the AIMS BMR Gala held in Athens Wilson Kipsang and Edna Kiplagat are the inaugural male and female winners of the AIMS Best Marathon Runner Award for 2013, as voted for by AIMS Members, made up of more than 350 of the world’s leading distance races from over 100 countries and territories. The Gala is staged by AIMS in collaboration with the Hellenic Athletics Federation (SEGAS) and the Athens Classic Marathon and sponsored by OPAP S.A |
| 8/11/2005 | 39-year-old George Weah, former forward of Monaco, Paris-Saint Germain, Milan, Chelsea, etc. and “African Player of the Century” loses to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the Liberian general election for the presidency. The election which marked the end of the political transition following Liberia’s second civil war was held one month before (11/10) but the runoff election ends with the victory of Unity (59,4%) over CDC of Weah (40,6%). |
| 8/11/2001 | Journalist Takis Haralambidis dies at the age of 54 |
| 8/11/1999 | The Swiss team becomes the first team from a continental country in American Cup history to win a race |
| 8/11/1999 | The oldest olympic winner Slovenian gymnast Leon Stukelji dies aged 101. He won olympic gold in Paris (1924) and Amsterdam (1936). His last appearance was at the Berlin 1936 Olympics where he earned a bronze medal in rings. In March 1999 his dream to visit Greece, the land that gave birth to the Olympic Games, finally came true |
| 8/11/1990 | Christos Lambrou and Vangelis Bratsis, members of the Athens Climbing Club, fail to reach Dualgiri peak in the Imalayas |
| 8/11/1989 | Kristo Bonev makes his debut as Panathinaikos coach in an away match against OFI (2-0). The Bulgarian striker was one of the most prominent european football players in the 70s. He was capped 98 times (47 goals) and played in 2 World Cup tournaments (Germany, Mexico) |
| 8/11/1988 | ''Triponto'' basketball magazine is first published. Filippos Sirigos is the editor in chief ( till November 30, 1999) |
| 8/11/1967 | Roland Matthes from East Germany smashes the 100m back style world record with 58.4 in Leipzig. The previous day he had set a new world record in 200m back style (2:07.9). For a decade he will keep on breaking back style records. In the Munich 1972 Olympics Spitz dominates free style and butterfly while Matthes wins the back style races (56.30/100m and 2:02.82/200m). On September 7, 1973 he breaks the last record in Belgrade (2:01.87). His records will last till John Naber appears in the Montreal 1976 Olympics (55.49/100m and 1:59.19/200m) |
| 8/11/1931 | AEK win the first Greek Cup after beating Aris 5-3 in the final at Leoforos |
| 8/11/1926 | POEL, later APOEL, is founded in Nicosia, Cyprus, when 40 people, with a common vision, meet and set the foundations for creating a football club that would represent all Greeks of the capital. The meeting takes place at a traditional confectionary owned by Charalambos Hadjioannou downtown Ledra Street and the first president is Giorgos Poulias. The club will gradually become one of the strongest clubs in Cyprus and the first that will reach 20 championship titles. |
