| 10/8/2019 | Panathinaikos swimmer, Vicky Kouveli, wins the gold medal in the 3000m open water competition with a time of 40:45.6, at the 50-54 age class at the 18th FINA World Masters Championships held in the South Korean city of Guangzhou. |
| 10/8/2019 | Greek athlete Miltos Tedoglou wins the gold medal in the long jump with 8.30 at the European Youth Track and field Championships in Poland |
| 10/8/2018 | Voula Papachristou wins Greece’s third gold medal for her 14.60 meters in triple jump at the European Athletes championships 2018 in Berlin. Germany’s Kristin Gierisch claimed the silver medal with a jump of 14.45 meters while Spain’s Ana Peleteiro finished in third just behind with a 14.44-meter jump. |
| 10/8/2018 | Katerina Stefanidi and Nikol Kyriakopoulou win Gold and Silver medals in women’s Pole Vault at the European Athletics Championships 2018 in Berlin, with 4.85 and 4.80 respectively, for the first time in history. Katerina Stefanidi set a championships record by clearing 4.85 meters in her third and final attempt and became the first European athlete to win a back to back title in pole vault. |
| 10/8/2012 | The US team of Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter wins the gold medal in the women's 4 x 100m relay with 40.82, shattering the East German mark of 41.37 which had stood for 27 years. Jamaica wins the silver medal with 41.41 and Ukraine the bronze with 42.04 |
| 10/8/2009 | Chess site “ChessCube” raises $1.25 million in a round of funding from investors including South African early stage VC firm InVenFin. ChessCube’s online community with more than 650.000 members, was founded by its CEO Mark Levitt, fout times South Africa’s chess champion, in April 2006, and in March 2011 will approach a total of 1.5 million registered members. |
| 10/8/1998 | 31-year-old trainer Giorgos Loukanidis, son of the legendary Panathinaikos and Doxa Drama striker Takis Loukanidis, dies in a car accident |
| 10/8/1997 | The 6th World Athletics IAAF Championships close in Athens |
| 10/8/1988 | Matt Biondi sets new 100m free style record with 42.42 |
| 10/8/1971 | The 10th European Athletics Championships open in Helsinki. Valeri Borsov will win the 100m (10.3'') and 200m (20.3'') races, while Vassilis Papageorgopoulos will finish third at the 100m race with 10.6') |
| 10/8/1967 | First publication of Triantafyllos Siaperas' book ''Chess'' |
| 10/8/1956 | Fedon Mattheou scores a personal record of 28 points against Syria (94-75) at Cairo for the pre-olympic tournament. Mattheou will score a total of 529 points in 44 matches with the national basketball team. In this match Vangelis Nikitopoulos will play for the second and last time in his career |
| 10/8/1954 | Jockey Sir Gordon Richards announces his retirement after 21.843 wins in 34 years |
| 10/8/1947 | William Odom sets a record of 73 hours and 5 minutes when he lands at Chicago airport, concluding his solo flight around the world |
| 10/8/1907 | Italian prince Borghese wins the first long distance car race (12.000km, from Beijing to Paris). Having crossed Asia and Europe, the prince was pulled over by a policeman near Brussels who refused to believe that the prince was racing rather than merely speeding |
