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19/4/2023Nikos Polychronopoulos and Kostas Kokkoris climb to the highest step of the podium by winning the first gold medal in the history of Greece at the European Billiards Team Championship held in Antalya, Turkey. The Greek duo triumphed in the final of the 3-Cushion Men's National Teams competition over the Swedes, Blomdahl / Nilsson in the scotch doubles (tie break) after a sensational performance with 14 points in a row.
19/4/2017Faros Keratsini scores 164 points against Pagrati for the 27th Matchday of the A2 Division Basketball Championships in the match for the 27th match of A2 Men against Pagrati, breaking a record that held 16 years. The previous record of productivity was recorded in the period 1990-1991 in the showdown Ilyasiakos-Piraiko that ended 143-111 in favor of the home team. In fact, the Faros with the 164 points he scored surpassed the record of the great Mars, which had twice achieved 153 points (153-62 defeated Nirh Hast in 1986 and 153-64 Ionic in 1987), but he did not defeat the Hercules record The distant 1972 prevailed with 172-94 of BAO (with Aristides Moumoglou achieving 145 points.
19/4/2015Record five-time European champion Vlassis Maras earns his eighth European Championship medal by finishing third in the horizontal bar with 14.666 points, behind Croat Marijo Moznik (14.833) and Briton Sam Oldham (14.766) at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championship held in Montpellier, France
19/4/2010Vlassis Maras wins the gold medal at the horizontal bar competition during the European Championships of Artistic Gymnastics held in Birmingham and becomes the first athlete who wins 5 gold European medals in the horizontal bar competition.
19/4/1999Josef Wantzik retires after defending Panathinaikos posts for the last time at the football game Panathinaikos-Ethnikos 5-1
19/4/1997Aris is crowned greek volleyball champion by winning Orestiada 3-0 at the Mikra Hall, bringing the title to Salonica for the first time since 1967. Coach of the team is Kostas Haritonidis, Vangelis Koutsonikas is the team captain and key players are Ljubomir Ganev (first scorer of the championship), Plamen Konstantinov, Stelios Papakosmas, while Giannis Haritonidis, played as a side-out.
19/4/1994Olympiacos defeat Panathinaikos 77-72 at the European Champions Cup final four in Tel Aviv. Olympiacos failed to win the trophy after losing to Bandalona 57-59
19/4/1992Greek table tennis champion Kalin Kreanka wins the gold medal in doubles at the European Championships
19/4/1990Georgios Vichos, the Greek shooting champion who participated in the 1936 and 1948 Olympic Games, dies at the age of 75. In 1958, he was appointed as the first General Secretary of Sports by Konstantinos Karamanlis, he redacted the first Sports Law, created the football pools PRO-PO and was the first Greek to hold the president’s position in an international federation, the shooting federation.
19/4/1990Jugoplastica are crowned European Champions for second consecutive season after beating Barcelona (led by former Jugoplastica coach Bozidar Maljkovic) 72-67 at the Zaragoza Final Four. The team features some of the finest yugoslavian players like Toni Kukoc and Dino Radja
19/4/1987Julius Erving of Philadelphia plays his last NBA game
19/4/1966Roberta Bignay becomes the first woman to run in the Boston Marathon (2:25.27)
19/4/1964Mario Andretti's first Indy Car race at Trenton Ins, New Jersey. He finishes 11th among 16 pilots
19/4/1958Sir Bobby Charlton makes his debut with England in a match against Scotland (4-0) at Hamden Park. He was capped 106 times (49 goals)
19/4/1957Ferenc Puskas, Sandor Kocsis and goalkeeper Gyula Grosics arrive in Athens after the proposition of Dimitris Karellas, owner of Ethnikos, to sign for his team. The other teams will react to this action and, one month later, Ethnikos will be accused of being a “professional club”, while Puskas, who the year before defected in the West, will wander around Europe, banned for his decision by FIFA, looking for a team to play. He will eventually end up in Spain in June 1958 and sign with Real Madrid
19/4/195465-year-old Clarence Demar, 7 times winner of the Boston Marathon, runs for the last time and finishes 78th
19/4/195019-year-old Ham Young becomes the youngest Boston Marathon winner
19/4/1920Petros Trivoulidas of Greece wins the 24th Boston Marathon
19/4/1897John J. McDermott wins the first Boston Marathon (26 miles and 385 yards) in 2:55.10. The oldest Marathon of that kind is held every year in April (Patriot's Day)

 

             
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