| 26/6/2022 | Dionysis Xenos defeats Loukas Mareska in the -97 kg final in karate to win the first gold medal for Greece at the Mediterranean Games in Oran, Algeria |
| 26/6/2021 | After 22 years of an outstanding basketball career, the Greek legend Vassilis Spanoulis announces his retirement. Spanoulis has collected a huge amount of trophies and accolades including the three EuroLeague titles (2009, 2012, 2013). He was the Final Four MVP through all three of those runs and won the EuroLeague season MVP during the latest. He was also named to the 2010-20 All-Decade Team of the competition and is the current all-time leader in three stat categories – points (4455), assists (1607), and PIR (4183). He won the Greek League seven times along with four Greek Cups and many individual honors. With the Greek national team, Spanoulis won three medals in major events – gold in the 2005 EuroBasket, silver in the 2006 FIBA World Cup, and bronze in the 2009 EuroBasket. |
| 26/6/2021 | The assembly of the Royal Spanish Football Federation approves the new Copa del Rey format, changing all rounds to a single-match format until the final. This decision means that away goals will no longer apply to the semi-finals. |
| 26/6/2019 | The 134th IOC Session at the inauguration of its new building in Lausanne elects Spyros Capralos as its Member for Greece with 60 votes (in a total of 64) first among the chosen 10 countries. In the history of the IOC (since 1894) 12 preceded: D. Vikelas (1894), A. Merkatis (1900), G. Averoff (1926), N. Politis (1930), A. Volanakis (1933), I. Ketseas (1946), King Constantine (1963), P. Lappas (1965), E. Petralias (1975), N. Nisiotis (1978), N. Filaretos (1981), C. Nikolaou (1986). |
| 26/6/2019 | Greek Olympic medal winner Babis Holidis dies at the relatively young age of 62. Holidis, who specialized in Olympic-style Greco-Roman wrestling, was born in Kazakhstan in 1956. He began wrestling in 1968, and ended up taking part in a total of four Olympic Games: Montreal, in 1976, Moscow, in 1980, Los Angeles, in 1984 and Seoul, in 1988. He won bronze medals at both the Los Angeles and Seoul Olympic Games. Holidis also coached the Greek national men’s team from 1998 to 2000, along with Dimitris Thanopoulos and Aristides Grigorakis. |
| 26/6/2016 | Italian actor, professional swimmer and water polo player Bud Spencer dies at the age of 86. He was known for action-comedy and Spaghetti Western roles with his long-time film partner Terence Hill. |
| 26/6/2016 | Argentina captain Lionel Messi announces that his international career is over at the age of 29 after missing his spot-kick in the decisive shootout at Met Life Stadium, which Chile went on to win 4-2 and secure a second Copa América crown in two years. |
| 26/6/2014 | Cristiano Ronaldo scores at the Protugal – Ghana (2-1) game of the 2014 Brazil World Cup and becomes the first Portuguese player to score in three World Cup tournaments |
| 26/6/2011 | On the occasion of the 50 years since the establishment of the International Olympic Academy, Elli Paspala gives a concert at Pnyka, with V. Tsitsanis, M. Hatzidakis, M. Theodorakis and Stavros Xarhakos works. IOA president, Isidoros Kouvelos, awards IOC president Jacques Rogge, whom he proclaims lifelong Honorary President of the Academy, HOC president Spyros Kapralos and IOC member Lambis Nikolaou. |
| 26/6/2011 | River Plate is relegated to Argentine Nacional B’ for the first time in the team’s 110 year history |
| 26/6/2008 | Xavi’s opening goal in the Euro 2008 semifinal between Spain and Russia (3-0) at Vienna’s Ernst Happel, is the 500th goal in the history of the European Championships |
| 26/6/2001 | Lena Daniilidou becomes the first Greek tennis player to qualify for Wimbledon's second round after defeating Lubomira Bacheva 2-1 |
| 26/6/1999 | 38 year-old international handball player Alexis Tomboulidis dies in a car accident in Halkidiki |
| 26/6/1999 | The Millenium Stadium opens in Cardiff, Wales with a rugby match between Wales and South Africa. On August 18, 1999 the English Federation announces that the stadium will host the English FA Cup finals till the end of the reconstruction works in Wembley |
| 26/6/1992 | Kim Vilfort scores the second goal for Denmark and the 200th goal in the history of the European Championships at the final game between Denmark and Germany (2-0) at Ullevi, Gothenburg |
| 26/6/1989 | Greece win the silver medal after losing to Yugoslavia 98-77 in the European Basketball Championship final at Zagreb's Dom Sportova |
| 26/6/1981 | Spyros Skouras dies at the age of 63. He was president of AEK (1949-50) and Panellinios during the period of the great basketball team with players such as Ar. Roubanis, P. Manias, Th. Holevas, K. Papadimas and M. Stefanidis. He was nephew to Spyros Skouras, president of “20th Century Fox” (1942-62), and along with his brothers, George and Charles, main sponsor of St. Sophia Cathedral in Los Angeles, from Skourochori emigrated to Saint Louis in 1910 and within 20 years took over the management of 500 theatres, many of them nickelodeons. He took over from his father, Dimitris, the older brother of the “immigrants”, the management of “Skouras Films” in Greece and he was the publisher of the weekly sports magazine “Protathlitis”. |
| 26/6/1979 | Muhammad Ali announces his decision to retire at the age of 37 |
| 26/6/1977 | Stelios Aggloupas becomes the first Greek to break the 60m barrier in discus (60.08m) at Karaiskakis Stadium. McWilkins was the world record holder at that time (70.86m) |
| 26/6/1954 | The highest number of goals ever in a World Cup match, Austria beat Switzerland 7-5 at the quarterfinal in Lausanne |
| 26/6/1951 | One of the largest basketball crowds (75.000) watch Harlem Globetrotters' show in Berlin Olympic stadium |
| 26/6/1906 | French Ferenc Szisz wins the first automobile Grand Prix in history, the french Grand Prix, driving a Renault at the speed of 63mph |
| 26/6/1819 | W.K. Clarkson Jr. patents the bicycle |
