| 17/7/2022 | 14-year-old Maria-Louiza Gika wins the gold medal in the 39 kgs category at the European U15 Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb. |
| 17/7/2022 | ESAKE’s CEO for many years, Giorgos Kondylis, dies at the age of 75 after suffering a stroke. He was one of the founding members of ESAK (now ESAKE) 30 years ago (1992/1993). He was for years deputy director general of the organizing authority, before succeeding Kostas Rigas as director general. He left ESAKE after his retirement at the beginning of 2022. |
| 17/7/2022 | Miltos Tentoglou wins the silver medal in the World Athletic Championships in Oregon with an 8.32-meter jump coming second to China’s Wang who jumped 8.36m. |
| 17/7/2021 | Stratos Perperoglou announces his retirement from his basketball career at the age of 36. He started his professional career in 2012 playing for Ilissiakos, in 2004 he moved to Panionios and in 2007 to Panathinaikos. With PAO he won 2 Euroleague titles ((2009, 2011), 4 championships (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) and 3 Cups (2008, 2009, 2012). In August 2012 he moved to Olympiacos, winning thw 2013 Euroleague title. He then played for Anadolu Efes, Barcelona Lassa, Hapoel Jerusalem and Crvena Zvezda. As a player of the Greek national team he won the bronze medal in Eurobasket 2009. |
| 17/7/2015 | French motor racing driver Jules Bianchi who drove for Marussia F1 in the FIA Formula One World Championship dies from his injuries aged 25. On 5 October 2014, during the Japanese Grand Prix, Bianchi lost control of his Marussia in very wet conditions and collided with a recovery vehicle, suffering a diffuse axonal injury. He underwent emergency surgery and was placed into an induced coma, and remained comatose until his death. A few days later, FIA President Jean Todt will announce that race number 17 would be retired from the list of those available for Formula One drivers, as a mark of respect. |
| 17/7/2008 | Matt Norman, the Australian film-maker and actor, nephew of 1968 Olympics silver medalist Peter Norman, releases the documentary “Salute”, which is about his uncle and his activities after the Mexico Olympics, where he stood on the podium wearing the badge of the Olympic Project for Human Rights, along with John Carlos and Tommy Smith raising their hands with black gloves. In his return to Australia, he expressed his opposition to his country’s government’s White Australia policy, with which aboriginal Australians were not included in the national census and suffered both legal and socio-economic disadvantage and was reprimanded by Australia's Olympic authorities. |
| 17/7/2000 | Spanish football federation lifts Barcelona's one-year ban from Spanish Cup (Copa del Rey). The catalans were suspended after refusing to play their semi-final second leg against Atletico Madrid |
| 17/7/2000 | Nikos Boudouris, the first Greek basketball player to have won all 3 european titles, signs with Olympiacos becoming the third player of Panathinaikos (alongside with Radja and Economou) to join Olympiacos |
| 17/7/1995 | Legendary F1 pilot Juan Manuel Fangio dies in Buenos Aires aged 84. He dominated many major F1 Grand Prix in the 50s winning 24 (out of 51) races and 5 world championships (1951 and 1954-57). In 1957 he became the oldest pilot (46 years and 41 days old) to win the world title |
| 17/7/1994 | Brazil wins the 15th World Cup, the fourth in its history, beating Italy with 3-2(pen) (0-0) in Los Angeles, USA. This win is dedicated to Ayrton Sena, who was killed some months ago. Bulgarian Stoichkov and Russina Salenko are the top scorers with 6 goals while, 4 years later, the missed penalty kick by Robert Baggio will inspire the Johnnie Walker commercial, titled “Roberto Baggio’s Walk 1994-1998”. |
| 17/7/1979 | Vardinogiannis Group purchases 54% of Panathinaikos FC shares. Two weeks later Apostolos Nikolaidis will hand the presidency to “captain” Giorgos Vardinogiannis, the new president of the team |
| 17/7/1979 | Sebastian Coe smashes John Walker's 1mile world record by 0.4 seconds (3:48.95) |
| 17/7/1964 | At the age of 18, Dragan Dzajic makes his debut with the national team of Yugoslavia against Romania. He will earn 85 caps (the most in history of Yugoslav National Team) and he will score 23 goals. In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA’s Jubilee, he will be selected as the Golden Player of Serbia and Montenegro by the Football Association of his country |
| 17/7/1912 | The IAAF is founded in Stockholm by representatives of 17 countries |
