| 18/10/2022 | Sofia Georgopoulou, wins three bronze medals, one in the snatch competition with 91 kg, one in clean & jerk with 111 kg and one in the all-around with 202 kg. in the category of 59k. at the European U23 Weightlifting Championships in Durres, Albania. Earlier today, Konstantinos Lambridis won the silver medal in clean & jerk at the 61k. category lifting 143 kg |
| 18/10/2021 | Neoklis Avdalas, at the age of 15 years, 8 months and 14 days, becomes the youngest basketball player for Panathinaikos to play in a Stoiximan Basket League game, and the third in general after Giorgos Papagiannis and Lefteris Mantzoukas |
| 18/10/2020 | Veteran basketball player and journalist Kostas Batis dies at the age of 61 years. He started playing basketball at the academies of Panathinaikos, where he played for 8 years winning 4 championships and 2 Cups while he was international with the national teams of children and teenagers celebrating the silver medal in the Children's Eurobasket in 1975. He then played for Milon, Esperos Kallithea before deciding to pursue a career as a journalist. His first journalistic experience was in the historic newspaper “Athlitiki Iho”, followed by Sportime and many other publications (newspapers and magazines), while he became widely known through television, first ANT1, having the responsibility of broadcasting the basketball games (but also the sports news in the bulletins), and later MEGA Channel. |
| 18/10/2015 | Motorcycle and racing car champion, George Raptopoulos dies at the age of 85, the same night he returned home from a car race. The 1963-1964 period was the best in his long career, culminating in two consecutive titles at the then National Championship of Tourism. In 1964 he won the race “Anavasi Parnitha” with the incredible time of seven minutes and four seconds, performance which took four years to be refuted. He was the first Greek who brought a Formula 3 car in Greece and he participated in a few races with it in 1966. In the mid ‘70s he retired, but not completely, as he was the teacher of Jigger Yannis Vardinoyannis in his first steps in racing. |
| 18/10/2010 | Journalist Giannis Mamouzelos presents his book “Marathon Race: An Appointment with History” at the Congress Hall of the Hellenic Olympic Committee Building |
| 18/10/2004 | Sport journalist Philippos Sirigos is attacked by strangers outside of the radio station “Sport FM” and is transferred to the intensive care unit with a wound on the head and four stabs in the back |
| 18/10/1997 | Olympiacos become the first Greek basketball team to take part in a McDonalds Open. They lose to Chicago Bulls (Jordan, Pipen, Kukoc, McHale) 104-78 in the final. Best line-up: Jordan, Tarlac, Karnisovas, Oberto, Struelens |
| 18/10/1996 | Giuseppe Panini, who in 1961 founded Panini Group, the company that produces books, comics, magazines, stickers and trading cards, dies at the age of 71 in Modena. The first football sticker collection was “Calciatori” for the 1961-1962 season and Nils Ledhomm, the Swedish striker of Milan, was on the front cover. The first figure printed was that of Bruno "Maciste" Bolchi, the captain of Inter. The official logo of the collection is a player, with a red jersey, white shorts and black and yellow socks, while performing a bicycle kick. The symbol was inspired by the athletic movement of Carlo Parola during Fiorentina-Juventus 0-0 on 15/1/1950, to repel the ball from their area. It was created by Wainer Vaccari and its first appearance on an album cover and bags of "Calciatori" was in 1965-66 while it was published in more than 200 million copies with captions in Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and Japanese. |
| 18/10/1994 | Kostas Politis does not include Nikos Galis in the starting line-up of Panathinaikos for the game against Ambelokipi. Galis, who once said ''I will stop when they stop counting on me'', decides to retire from basketball. He scored his last 8 points in a game against Dafni on October 12, completing 12.857 points (all-time record in Greece) |
| 18/10/1974 | Nate Thurmond of the Chicago Bulls becomes the first NBA player to complete a quadruple double (22 points, 14 rebounds, 13 assists and 12 blocks) |
| 18/10/1969 | NBA's top scorer Kareem Abdul Jabbar (Lou Alcindor) makes his debut |
| 18/10/1968 | Bob Beamon smashes the long jump world record with 8.90m at the Mexico Olympics. His record will last 23 years. On August 30, 1991 Mike Powell will jump 8.95m in Tokyo. Studies on the trajectory of his body will prove that he would have jumped over seven parallel FIAT 500 cars parked in front of him |
| 18/10/1967 | A record of 29665 spectators, watch the football game Panathinaikos – Bayern Munchen 1-2 at the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium for the European Cup Winners Cup |
| 18/10/1955 | Jesse Owens is proclaimed all-time track athlete |
| 18/10/1930 | Joseph Sylvester becomes the first jockey to win 7 races in one day |
| 18/10/1871 | Twelve clubs accept Charles Ascot's proposition to set up the English FA Cup |
| 18/10/1858 | The first ''Olympia'' international exhibition, decreed by King Otto, open at Pireus Str |
