| 20/7/2022 | Panathinaikos' champion Despina Georgiadou wins the the bronze medal in a World Fencing Championship in Cairo, adding it next to the bronze that Dora Goundoura (Ariston Peanias) won in Budapest in 2019. |
| 20/7/2019 | Greek fencing champion Dora Gountoura wins the bronze medal in the Sabre individual event at the World Fencing Championship in Budapest, Hungary |
| 20/7/2019 | With her opening jump at 14.00 metres, a new Greek national U20 record, Spyridoula Karydi wins the gold medal in the high jump competition at the U20 European Championship in Boras, Sweden. |
| 20/7/2011 | 31-year-old Spyros Gianniotis of Greece wins men's 10 kilometre open water swimming by 1 hour 54 minutes 24.7 seconds at the 14th FINA World Championships held in Shanghai, China. Gianniotis becomes the second Greek swimmer to win a gold medal in a world championship, after Aris Grigoriadis in 50m backstroke in 2005. |
| 20/7/2002 | Former Olympiacos player Michalis Kritikopoulos dies aged 56 during a veterans' match in Andros |
| 20/7/1997 | John Akii-bua, the first athlete from Uganda to win a gold Olympic medal, dies at the age of 48. He won the gold medal at the 400m hurdles race at the Summer Olympics of Munich in 1972, making a world record with 47.82. Akii-Bua, carrying Uganda’s flag, handed to him by a spectator, ran around the track with it unfurled, beginning the “victory lap” tradition |
| 20/7/1996 | Polish shooter Renata Mauer wins the first gold medal in Atlanta |
| 20/7/1989 | Major Greek painter Giannis Tsarouchis dies aged 79. Just a year before, he had designed the emblem for the 1996 Olympics greek candidature, whose file was set up by famous greek architect Georges Candilis |
| 20/7/1988 | Danny Everett runs the 400m race in less than 44'' (43.98'') in Indianapolis, USA |
| 20/7/1986 | The Greek basketball team is beaten by China with 112-111 and is placed 10th at the World Basketball Championship in Zaragoza. Nikos Galis is announced top scorer with 337 points against the 310 scored by Brazilian Oscar Schmidt |
| 20/7/1984 | Uwe Hohn from East Germany throws 108.4m in javelin. The changes in the javelin specification in April 1986 reduced the throwers' performances |
| 20/7/1937 | Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the wireless telegraph, dies aged 63. In 1899 he equipped two ships with transmitters and informed the New York newspapers with the result of America's Cup |
| 20/7/1936 | The first lightning of the Olympic Flame takes place in Olympia. The head priestess Koula Pratsika with the priestesses, Maria Hors and Aleka Katseli among them, lights the torch of the first bearer, Kostas Kondilis. The torch will be carried to Berlin (1/8/1936) by 3840 bearers. The torches are made by the German company KRUPP, which makes guns for Vermacht |
| 20/7/1924 | FIDE is established by Pierre Vincent in Paris. Its logo is ''Gens Una Sumus'' |
| 20/7/1908 | 73-year-old Dimitrios Vikelas dies of liver cancer at Kifissia. He was the first president of the International Olympic Committee and a protagonist, along with Pierre de Coubertin, in the organization of the first modern Olympic Games. As a writer he became famous with his novel “Loukis Laras (1879) and his huge library is devised to the Municipality of Heraklion, Crete and is named after him |
| 20/7/1908 | Constantinos Tsiklitiras wins the silver medal in standing long jump with 3.235 at the London Olympic Games behind Ray Ewry (3.335) |
| 20/7/1885 | The English Football Federation legalizes professionals |
| 20/7/1871 | Charles Ascot, secretary of the English Football Federation, proposes the organization of the FA Cup |
