| 27/6/2022 | Kelly Kydonaki defeats Jovanovic from Montenegro 2-1 in the female kumite +68 kg final in karate to win the second gold medal for Greece at the Mediterranean Games in Oran, Algeria. George Prevolarakis wins the bronze medal in the 77 kg category. Prevolarakis was left at 3-3 with the Egyptian Ampuelata, but having achieved the decisive last point, the Greek champion climbed to third place |
| 27/6/2021 | 22-year-old Emmanouil Karalis jumps over 5.70m. kai wins the gold medal at the pole vault competition at the Balkan Championships M/W in Serbia. Greek Nikolas Andrikopoulos, jumps 16.73 in his final attempt in triple jump, and also wins the gold medal (personal best). |
| 27/6/2021 | Qatari sprinter Abdalelah Haroun, who won bronze in the 400m at the 2017 World Athletic Championships, dies aged 24, following a car accident. The Sudan-born runner first represented Qatar in the 2015 Asian and Arab Athletic Championships, becoming the world's junior 400m champion in 2016. Haroun's crowning achievement came at the World Championships in London in 2017, finishing third behind Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa and Bahamian Steven Gardiner to win the bronze medal as a 20-year-old. |
| 27/6/2020 | Twenty-year-old Cleon Papadimitriou managed to cover 3,500 kilometers from the one edge of Europe to the other, carrying a load of 30 kilograms, in 48 days. Studying at Aberdeen University in Scotland, he had enough waiting for the lifting of travel restrictions due to COVID-19 and decided to cycle his way to his hometown, Athens. His journey began on May 10, 2020 and crossing the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria he arrived in Italy. He then boarded a boat to Patras and from there continued to Athens, where his family and friends welcomed him to his neighborhood at Melissia, north of the Greek capital, with a large banner proclaiming: “Welcome Home Cleon: One more challenge accomplished!” |
| 27/6/2015 | Greek judoka Ilias Iliadis wins the bronze medal after defeating Beka Gviniashvili from Georgia in the men’s 90kg category at the 1st European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan |
| 27/6/2010 | Germany defeats England 4-1 for the second round of the World Cup in Bloemfontein, North Africa. At the 38th minute, while the score is 2-1, England “draws” with a goal of Frank Lampard, which will not count. This is a copy of the “ghost goal“ scored by Geoff Hurst at the 1966 final, which counted but was questioned for almost 40 years, until technology revealed the truth. |
| 27/6/2003 | 28 year-old cameroonian midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe collapses and dies of heart failure in the pitch of Lyon's Stade Gerlande during the Cameroon - Colombia match (1-0) for the FIFA Confederations Cup |
| 27/6/2001 | Iraklis striker Michalis Konstantinou goes to Panathinaikos for a record 4 billion drachmas |
| 27/6/2000 | 28 year-old Slovakian footballer Peter Bubovski of Real Oviedo is killed when he attempts a risky dive in Tayland |
| 27/6/1996 | EPO allows the use of 4 foreign players in the First Division of the Greek league and 3 in the Second Division |
| 27/6/1986 | Anna White shocks Wimbledon by wearing a body stocking |
| 27/6/1986 | Wayne Gretzky becomes MVP for the 7th consecutive NHL season |
| 27/6/1962 | Olympiacos and Panathinaikos meet at the ''neutral'' Nea Philadelphia stadium for the Greek Cup final. The match ends in a draw (0-0). Night falls and the referee interrupts the game. The fans invade the ground believing that both teams fixed the match in order to play again and get more money. For fear of violent incidents the Greek Football Federation will not allow a repeat. So the title goes to noone that year |
| 27/6/1954 | Despite the absence of Puskas due to injury, Hungary beats Brazil by 4-2 at the Wankdorf Stadium for the quarter finals of the World Cup. It is the game between the two best teams of the world and remains in history as the “Battle of Berne” due to the excessive violence among players inside (3 sent offs and cruel tackling) and outside the field (invasion in the Hungarian dressing rooms) |
| 27/6/1912 | The 1262/9890 state directive helps in equalizing the status of physical education instructors and teachers as, according to statistics, only 500 out of 30.000 students visit gyms |
