| 25/6/2022 | Stefanos Tsitsipas climbs back to No. 5 in the Pepperstone ATP Rankings after capturing his first grass-court title and ninth tour-level crown overall at the Mallorca Championships. The 23-year-old, who was making his debut at the ATP 250 event, defeated Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2) in the championship match. |
| 25/6/2021 | Lefteris Petrounias wins the gold medal in the rings competition at the Doha gymnastics World Cup with 15500 points, qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics. Antonis Tantalidis, 24, comes third in the final of the floor exercise with 14700 points to win his first medal in a World Cup. |
| 25/6/2019 | Giannis Antetokounmpo has been named the Kia NBA Most Valuable Player for the 2018-19 season, at the NBA Awards 2019 in Los Angeles. Antetokounmpo averaged 27.7 points (3rd in the NBA), 12.5 rebounds (6th in the NBA) and 5.9 assists (T-20th in the NBA) per game – all career-highs. This is the fourth time a Buck has won MVP and the first time since Abdul-Jabbar in 1973-74, who also won in 1970-71 and 1971-72. At the age of 24, Antetokounmpo is just the 12th player to win MVP before turning 25 and is the youngest MVP since Derrick Rose (22) won in 2010-11. The Kia NBA Most Valuable Player was voted on by the media. |
| 25/6/2017 | Olympic medalist Usain Bolt wins for the last time in Europe with 10.07 in the 100m. in Ostrava (Czech Republic) announcing his retirement |
| 25/6/2015 | Ilektra Varvara Lebl of Greece wins the bronze medal with 1:00.43 in the Women's 100m Butterfly final during day fourteen of the Baku 2015 European Games at Baku Aquatics Centre. Polina Egorova (RUS) won the gold medal with 59.36 (games record) and Amelia Clynes (GBR) the silver with 1.00.12. |
| 25/6/2006 | Russian referee Valentin Ivanov expels 4 players (2 from each team), at the Portugal-Netherlands match, making an expulsion record at a World Cup’s final stage. The overall number of expulsions reaches 23, breaking the record of 22 at the 1998 World Cup. At the same match, Portugal’s coach, Brazilian Luiz Felipe Scolari, reaches a record of 11 consecutive wins at a World Cup final stage (7 with Brazil and 4 with Portugal) |
| 25/6/2004 | ''Incroyable mais grec'' (L' Equipe). Greece shake the football world with their stunning 1-0 (Haristeas) win over defending champions France to move to the Euro 2004 semi-finals while Greeks all over the world celebrate all night long |
| 25/6/2000 | Dutch striker Patrick Kluivert sets european record by scoring 4 goals against Yugoslavia (Holland - Yugoslavia 5-1) for Euro 2000 |
| 25/6/1994 | Caceres of Argentina scores goal no1.500 of World Cup tournaments |
| 25/6/1978 | Argentina win the 11th World Cup after defeating Holland 3-1 in Buenos Aires. Mario Kempes scores 2 goals in the final to take the top scorer award (6 goals) |
| 25/6/1969 | Pancho Gonzales defeats Charlie Pasarell 22-24, 1-6, 16-14, 6-3, 11-9 in the longest Wimbledon tennis match (112 games in 5 hours and 12 minutes) |
| 25/6/1951 | CBS' first TV color broadcast |
| 25/6/1936 | The greek national basketball team plays its first basketball match. Turkey defeat Greece 49-12. Michael Stergiadis is the coach of the Greek team and the 12 points are scored by Alkis Angelou (4), Giannis Nanes (2), Antonis Skilogiannos (4) and Theoharis Amarantidis (2). All players come from the University, Panellinios, Panionios, Piraikos and Iraklis. This match is the first in a series of 4 friendly matches (20/4/1940, 6/4/1946 ?a? 19/3/1947), which will lead to 15/5/1949 where the greek team will play the first official match in Cairo |
| 25/6/1921 | Jack Hutchinson becomes the first american golfer to win the British Open |
