| 3/10/2024 | Aristides Nikolaos Psarros defeats Moldovan Rosca 2-0 and wins the gold medal in the -51 kg category at the World Taekwondo Youth/Youth Championships held in Changchun, South Korea, becoming the fourth Greek to climb to the highest step of the podium in the history of the event, after Alexandros Nikolaidis, Charalambos Panagiotidis and Nikolaos Papagelis. |
| 3/10/2017 | Greek tennis player Maria Sakkari after reaching her first WTA semifinal in the 2017 Wuhan Open by beating Caroline Wozniacki, Elena Vesnina and Alizé Cornet, losing to Caroline Garcia enters the Top 50 of the world rankings. |
| 3/10/2016 | The world chess youth championship, which started on 22/09, concludes in Khanty Mansinsk, Russia. 16-year-old Stavroula Tsolakidou from Kavala wins the first place with 9 points in 11 matches and becoming the new world champion. Since winning the world title in the 16 years category last year, this year she competed in the 18 years category, where 52 chess players from 37 countries participated. So, after 2013 and 2015, she is crowned world champions for the third time. |
| 3/10/2011 | It’s the last day of circulation for the sports newspaper "Filathlos". The newspaper was first released on 30/11/1982. |
| 3/10/2008 | O. J. Simpson, the former football player, is convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping and other charges stemming from a 2007 incident in Las Vegas, 13 years after his acquittal for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman |
| 3/10/2006 | Australian track athlete Peter Norman dies of heart attack at the age of 64. He was the 200m silver medalist in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico and was on the medal podium together with John Carlos and Tommie Smith, who showed the Black Power salute. Norman accepted to wear the Black Power badge and became a very close friend to both of them, who will be pallbearers at his funeral. |
| 3/10/1999 | Greece (Irini Aindili, Hara Kariami, Eva Christodoulou, Maria Georgatou and Anna Pollatou) wins 3 medals (2 gold, 1 silver) at the 23th World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Osaka, Japan |
| 3/10/1996 | Manuel Amoros is forced to give up football at the age of 34 due to arthritis. He played in 2 World Cups (1982, 1986). In 1984 he became European champion when France defeated Spain (2-0) |
| 3/10/1987 | Michel Pruffer from France skis a record 135.26m/h in Portillo, Chile |
| 3/10/1978 | Aleksandr Belov dies at the age of 27 from a very rare disease (heart sarcoma). He was the scorer of the winning basket in the last second of the final of the Summer Olympics in Munich in 1972, where the Russians beat the Americans by 51-50 and won the gold medal. Aleksandr was not a relative to his co player in this match Sergei Belov, who is generally considered as one of the greatest basketball players of all time |
| 3/10/1974 | Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele, plays his farewell match with Santos, before joining the New York Cosmos for the next 3 years. Three times world champion with Brazil (85 goals), Pele has scored 1.100 goals in 1.120 official games. With Cosmos he will score 95 goals in 99 games |
| 3/10/1971 | Giannis “Mavros” Meimaridis is killed when his Alfa Romeo GTA hit the walls of the castle during the Rhodes circuit. His brother, Giorgos “Kokkinos” will stop competing for several years and will return under the name of “Melas”. The death of “Mavros” will signal the end of the circuits of Rhodes and Corfu. |
| 3/10/1971 | Billie Jean King becomes the first female professional tennis player to earn $100.000 in a single year after winning the Virginia Slims - Thunderbird Tournament in Phoenix |
| 3/10/1968 | Ten days before the Olympics Games start 10.000 people demonstrate in Mexico City. The army's intervention results in a bloodshed - 260 dead and 1.200 injured |
| 3/10/1966 | ''Athlitiki Kiriaki'' is first broadcast by ERT |
| 3/10/1942 | After winning the Jockey Club Gold Cup ''Whirlaway'' becomes the first horse to win $500.000 |
| 3/10/1920 | NFL established (later named American Pro Football Ass?ciation) |
