| 11/3/2022 | It took 26 seasons for The San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich to notch his 1,336th win (with his team’s 104-102 victory over the Utah Jazz) placing him atop the list of winningest coaches in NBA regular season history surpassing his former boss Don Nelson (1335). |
| 11/3/2012 | Dimitris Hondrokoukis wins the gold medal in high jump with 2.33 during the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. This is a personal best and is the fourth gold medal for Greece in a World Championships after Haris Papadias (1997 in 60m in Rome), Katerina Koffa (1997 in 60m in Paris) and Katerina Thanou (1999 in 60m in Maebasi). |
| 11/3/2006 | 36-year-old Indian cricketer Anil Kumble, known as “Jumbo”, member of the Indian cricket team since 1990, takes his 500th Test wicket. One year after, on 30/3/2007, he will announce his retirement and with his 547 test wickets he will take the fourth place after passing Courtney Walsh (520 wickets on June 11, 2006) |
| 11/3/1998 | “New Democracy” leader and future Prime Minister, Kostas Karamanlis, is injured at the Achilles tendon during the warm-up time of the football game among members of Parliament at the Alexandra avenue stadium |
| 11/3/1992 | ESAK founding congress held |
| 11/3/1991 | The trial concerning the Bank of Crete scandal begins. The owner of the bank and president of Olympiacos George Koskotas is directly involved in the case |
| 11/3/1990 | Jennifer Capriati becomes the youngest female tennis player (13 years and 347 days old) to play in a professional tournament final. She loses to Gabriela Sabatini 4-6, 5-7 in Virginia Slims final in Florida |
| 11/3/1988 | 80 people lose their lives in Kathmandu, Nepal when fans attempt to flee from a hailstorm inside a stadium |
| 11/3/1973 | The football match Olympiacos – Panathinaikos is televised by EIRT (later ERT). In 83’, while the score is 3-2, the referee, Timoleon Latsios, will suspend Athanasopoulos and Mimis Domazos will take the team and leave the court. Vassilis Konstantinou, who runs after Takis Sinetopoulos, will be punished with a life-time ban from the national team and one year off courts. PAO will be penalized and lose the championship, finishing third. |
| 11/3/1972 | The 3rd European Indoor Athletics Championships begin in Grenoble, where the track length is 180m instead of 200m. Therefore, races of 50m will be conducted in the place of the 60m races. For a third consecutive year (1970, 1971), Soviet Viktor Saneyev will win the gold medal in the triple jump, breaking the world record with 16.97. Spilios Zaharopoulos, with 3’46”08, will finish second in the 1500m race and Vassilis Papageorgopoulos third in the 50m race with 5”82, winning the two first medals for Greece in the competition. |
| 11/3/1948 | Reginald Weir becomes the first black tennis player to play in a US Indoor Lawn Tennis Association tournament |
| 11/3/1896 | The National Qualifying Games, started on 9/3, conclude at Panathinaiko Stadium. These games, along with “Tinia” (15-17/8/1895), are the qualifiers for the 1st Olympic Games of Athens |
| 11/3/1892 | The first recorded basketball game: professors vs students of Springfield College in Massachusetts. It was suggested that the new sport should be named Naismithball, but the proposition was abandoned and it was named basketball. John Naismith played with the professors’ team, but 30-year-old Amos Alonzo Stagg, a rugby player, was the man of the match, despite the fact that he was playing very tough. |
