| 18/5/2025 | 20-year-old champion of the Asteria Athletic Academy, Apostolos Siskos, sets a national record with a time of 1:54.66 in the 200m backstroke on the 3rd day of the 94th National Swimming Championship, which is taking place in Thessaloniki, breaking the 1:54.82 with which Apostolos Christou had won the silver medal in Paris, on 1/8/2024. Siskos already had the fastest time in the world this year with 1:55.18, last week in France (and for a few days it was a national record for young men). |
| 18/5/2025 | Ioli Mytilineou and L'Artiste de Toxandra stole the show in Madrid with a stunning performance to claim their first-ever Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix win |
| 18/5/2024 | Greek fencer Despina Georgiadou wins the bronze medal in epee, along with Japan's Misaki, at the World Cup in Plovdiv, Bulgaria |
| 18/5/2023 | Students of the “Vasiliadis Ioulia Kavakopoulou” High School of Thessaloniki climb to the first place in world chess ranking, beating 87 schools from 41 countries, such as India, Malaysia, China and America. The fifth place in the world was occupied by the high school students of the same school. |
| 18/5/2021 | Greece’s Anna Doudounaki, wins the gold medal in the women’s 100 meter butterfly final at the European Aquatics Championships in Duna Arena in Budapest, Hungary and becomes the first Greek female athlete in history to win a gold in the competition. |
| 18/5/2019 | Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City win FA Cup at Wembley to seal treble with 6-0 demolition of Watford, becoming the first English men's team to complete a domestic treble (Premier League, Carabao Cup and FA Cup), taking yet another place in the history book |
| 18/5/2018 | Olympiacos defeats Vouliagmeni with 12-3 in Piraeus' “Petros Papagerov”, , making the 3-0 in the playoffs finals and wins their seventh consecutive title in the men's A1 water polo. The players of Thodoris Vlachos completed the championship undefeated for the fourth consecutive year. |
| 18/5/2016 | 22-year-old swimmer of Argyroupolis Andreas Vazaios wins the gold medal in the 200m Individual Medley at the European Aquatics Championship in London with a national record of 1.58.18. This is the third gold medal in the history of Greek swimming, after the two medals of Aris Grigoriadis in 2008 and 2012 in backstroke. |
| 18/5/2015 | Russian president Vladimir Putin racked up eight goals in an exhibition game in Sochi as his team, which featured former NHL players Pavel Bure and Valeri Kamensky, won 18-6. |
| 18/5/2014 | Australian F1 world champion driver Jack Brabham dies, aged 88. Brabham won the Formula One world championships in 1959, 1960 and 1966, the last one in a car he built and he won the manufacturers championships twice, in 1966 and 1967. During his F1 career that stretched from 1955 to 1970, Brabham competed in 126 grands prix, winning 14. He retired in 1970 at the age of 44 years and in 1979 he was anointed knight by Queen Elizabeth of England. |
| 18/5/1999 | Elias Taprantzis, the first trainer of greek gymnastics champions, dies aged 64 |
| 18/5/1994 | Milan are crowned European Champions after crushing Barcelona 4-0 (Massaro 2, Savisevic, Desailly) in Athens. It will take them 9 years to regain the title (Milan-Juventus 2-1 on penalty kicks at Old Trafford) |
| 18/5/1962 | Al Oerter becomes the first discus thrower to break the 61m barrier |
| 18/5/1960 | Real Madrid beat Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3 in the European Champions Cup final in Glasgow, in front of 127.621 spectators. It will take the ''madridistas'' 38 years to regain the title |
| 18/5/1950 | Jimmy Mullen becomes England's first substitute player to score in an international match, against Belgium in Brussels |
| 18/5/1931 | Jockey Eddie Arcano runs his first race and finishes 6th. In his long career he won 4.779 out of the 24.092 races he took part in, 17 Triple Crowns and 549 Stakes included |
| 18/5/1929 | During the Barcelona conference FIFA selects Uruguay to host the first World Cup |
| 18/5/1889 | Irish cyclist Willie Hume demonstrates the supremacy of John Dunlop’s newly invented pneumatic tyres by winning the tyre’s first ever races in Ireland and England. Being the captain of the “Belfast Cruisers Cycling Club”, he is the first member of the public to purchase a “safety bicycle” fitted with Dunlop’s tyres. |
