| 1/7/2023 | Semeli Zarmakoupi wins the bronze medal at the 3rd European Games "2023" in Krakow-Malopolska, Poland, becoming the first Greek female athlete to win a European Olympic medal in kick boxing. |
| 1/7/2022 | The greek 4x200m freestyle men relay team (Dimitris Markos, Vangelis Makrygiannis, Kostas Stamou and Andreas Vazeos) win the gold medal with 7.17.91 at the Mediterranean Games of Oran. Earlier in the day, Vangelis Makrygiannis with 54.35 won the gold medal in the 100m backstroke competition and Kristian Gkolomeev had won the first medal for Greece in the games, the bronze in the 50m butterfly with 23.61. |
| 1/7/2021 | Greece defeats Italy 10-8 at the water polo World League bronze medal match in Tbilisi |
| 1/7/2018 | Russia midfielder Aleksandr Erokhin made World Cup history when he became the first player to enter the field as the fourth substitute in extra-time against Spain replacing Daler Kuzyaev. With the two teams tied at 1-1 and seven minutes of extra-time played, Russia coach Stanislav Cherchesov opted to take advantage of FIFA's new ruling, which allows a fourth substitution to be made in the extra 30 minutes. |
| 1/7/2004 | Greece qualifies to the EURO’s final by defeating Czech Republic with 1-0. Traianos Dellas scores at the 105’ of extra time after a corner kick of Vassilis Tsartas. Nobody believes the “incredible” and CNN shows pictures of Athens, where Greeks celebrate endlessly |
| 1/7/2001 | 22 year-old Cuban Osleidys Menendez becomes the first woman to throw the javelin beyond the 70-metre mark at ''Vardinogiannia'' meeting in Rethymno |
| 1/7/1999 | FIDE announces the Elo Rating List and 36-year-old Gary Kasparov is at the top with a rating of 2851 followed by Anand with 2771, i.e. 80 points (!) less. Kasparov’s performance is not only the highest ever but it will remain an unbeaten record even after his official retirement on March 10th, 2005. A comparison between chess players throughout history will reveal that he is listed No 1 and only Bobby Fisher is considered to be better but only in the case of examining performance over the course of one year, according to Jeff Sonas’ List published on 22/10/2002. |
| 1/7/1993 | William Weiler sends off 20 players during a Sportivo Ameliano - General Caballero match in Paraguay |
| 1/7/1977 | Marlit Oetler from East Germany runs the 100m in less than 11'' (10.88) in Dresden |
| 1/7/1973 | First basketball encounter for USA and China. A team of American players beat Sangai 96-61 |
| 1/7/1972 | Fisher faces Spassky for the world chess title in Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 1/7/1970 | Czech coach Frantisek Fadrhonc takes over the Dutch national team. He will coach Netherlands until 26/3/1974 and Oranje will have an average of 2.15 points per match, the second best record after that of Marco van Basten (2.19), with 13 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses in 20 matches. In 1975 he will move to AEK Athens, whom will lead to the semi finals of UEFA Cup (1976) and the Greek Championship title in 1978. |
| 1/7/1967 | BBC2's first colored broadcast of Wimbledon Tennis Tournament |
| 1/7/1955 | Giannis Vazos, known as “the fox”, who played for Olympiacos and the national team signs with Anorthossis as coach. Despite the fact that four players: Sailos, Papadopoulos, Fotinos and Hatzilouizos remain in prison during the season, the Cypriot team will win the championship and English authorities will not extend the work permit of the coach, who will be forced to return to Greece on 28 July 1956 |
| 1/7/1954 | German actress and writer Thea von Harbou dies at the age of 66. In 1920 she wrote her first film script, The Indian Tomb, which was shot by her husband Fritz Lang the following year. In 1961, Tasos Stefanou, a player and later general manager of PAO BC, will name the hall “Indian Tomb” after the movie playing at the cinemas in Athens |
| 1/7/1953 | Doxa Drama's stadium opens (Doxa Drama-Panathinaikos 2-2) |
| 1/7/1924 | Adi Dassler and his brother Rudolf establish a company manufacturing athletic shoes. Two years later they produce the first athletic shoe with spikes. In April 1948 the brothers split up. On August 18, 1949 Andy creates ''Adidas'', while Rudolf sets up ''Puma''. In 1963 Adidas produces its first ball |
| 1/7/1920 | French Suzanne Lenglen becomes the first tennis player to win 3 Wimbledon titles in one year (singles, doubles and mixed doubles) |
| 1/7/1906 | Sporting Lisbon FC founded |
| 1/7/1903 | The ”Tour de France” is mounted for the first time. It lasts19 days and has a length of 2500km. 60 cyclists participate but only 21 finish with Maurice Garin being the first champion |
| 1/7/1893 | The first cycle race-course made of wood opens in San Fransisco |
| 1/7/1860 | Charles Goodyear, inventor of the vulcanization process, dies aged 60. He was one of the biggest sponsors of Formula 1 |
| 1/7/1859 | First intercollegiate baseball match. Amherst face Williams College (66-32) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts |
