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10/3/2023Anna Korakaki defeats French shooter Camille Jedrzejewski 16-14 and wins the gold medal in the European 10m Air Pistol Championships held in Talin, Estonia
10/3/202167-year-old German Olympic champion Thomas Bach is re-elected for an additional four-year term as President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the 137th IOC Session which was held virtually, receiving 93 yes and 1 no votes from the 94 valid votes. Thomas Bach, who won gold in with the German foil fencing team at the Olympic Games Montreal 1976, was elected as IOC President at the IOC Session in 2013 in Buenos Aires for a first eight-year term. This term will finish on the closing day of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 on 8 August this year, as decided by the IOC Executive Board. His second term as IOC President will start immediately after, and will conclude in 2025.
10/3/2020Olympiacos president Vangelis Marinakis announces via facebook that he was diagnosed with COVID-19
10/3/2015Three French champions, five members of the production team and two Argentine pilots die in the crash of two helicopters in Argentina, on the set of "Dropped" a reality TV TF1 game. Florence Arthaud, 57, was the most famous French sailor. Nicknamed “Little Bride of the Atlantic”, she was the only woman to have won - at the age of 33 years - the Route du Rhum in 1990. Camille Muffat, 25, had won the gold medal in the 400 meters freestyle, the silver medal in the 200 meters and the bronze medal in the 4 × 200 meters relay at the London Olympics, and Alexis Vastine, 28, was a boxer playing in the super lightweight (less than 64 kg), having won bronze medals at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and London Olympics in 2012.
10/3/2009Bayern Munchen beat Sporting CP 7-1 after having won the first leg 5-0. The aggregate goal difference of 11 goals is the biggest margin in the knockout phase of the Champions League. The previous record was held by Olympique Lyon when they knocked out Werden Bremen by an aggregate score of 10-2 (0-3 on 23/2/2005 and 7-2 on 8/3/2005).
10/3/2008Vangelis Kazan, the greek actor and marathon runner, dies of cancer at the age of 70 years. He started his career in the movies in 1953 and in 1975, he received the best actor award, at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, for “The Travelling Players” (O Thiassos) of Theodoros Angelopoulos.
10/3/200233 year-old coach of Vouliagmeni women's water polo team Akis Tsatalios dies of heart failure during the Ethnikos - Vouliagmeni match
10/3/1996Olympiacos win their first european volleyball title (European Cup Winners Cup) by defeating Wuppertal 3-2 in the final in Piraeus
10/3/198850 people die and many get wounded in Tripoli, Libya, during riots following the football match between Libya and Malta
10/3/1978Radio and TV cigarette commercials are banned in Greece
10/3/1975Dog races are patented in England
10/3/1925Olympiacos is founded after the merger of 2 Peiraeus sport clubs. Notis Kamberos announces the name ''Olympiacos'' and Michalis Manouskos, the first chairman, adds ''Olympiacos Sindesmos Filathlon Peiraeus''
10/3/1913William Knox rolls the first perfect 300 games in a tournament competition in Toledo, Ohio
10/3/1909Victor McLanglen loses the heavyweight title when he gets knocked down by Jack Jackson in round 6. In 1935 he became famous after winning an Oscar for his part in John Ford's ''The Informer''
10/3/1904OFI Crete founded. The cretan team will create a unique record in greek football with the greek/dutch coach Eugen Gerard, who will be in charge for 15 years (1985-2000)
10/3/1896Harilaos Vassilakis wins the first modern marathon race in 3 hours and 18 minutes
10/3/1858Twenty-two clubs from the New York area form the National Association of Baseball Players (NABBP), the first amateurs baseball league

 

             
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