| 23/5/2023 | The Greek team wins three medals at the European U20 Rowing Championships in Brive-la-Gaillarde in France. Nikos Cholopoulos / Dimitris Papazoglou and Sofia Dalidou / Gabriela Lioliou win the silver medal in the double sculls and Sotiria Michailidi, Efthymia Kouklouperi, Christina Papaioannou and Dimitra Papaioannou win the bronze medal in the juniors' quadruple competition. |
| 23/5/2023 | Greek champion, Makis Mitas, wins the gold medal in the Skeet competition at the Clay Target World Cup in Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| 23/5/2023 | Rick Hoyt, who finished the Boston Marathon 36 times using his wheelchair and became an icon of the world-famous race, has died at the age of 61. Starting in 1977, Hoyt and his father competed in races around the world, with his father Dick pushing the chair at over 1,000 races. Hoyt was born with cerebral palsy and could not use his arms or legs. He used a computer to communicate. The pair's first Boston Marathon was in 1980 and their last together was in 2014. Dick Hoyt died in 2021. |
| 23/5/2021 | Greek Swimmer Christian Golomeev wins the bronze medal at the European Championships in Budapest after finishing third in the 50m freestyle competition with 21.73. |
| 23/5/2021 | Second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas defeats Cameron Norrie 6-3, 6-3 in the final of the Open Parc Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Lyon and wins his second ATP Tour title of the year, after the ATP Masters 1000 |
| 23/5/2007 | AC Milan win their seventh European crown beating Liverpool 2-1 in the Champions League final held in OAKA stadium, Athens, Greece. Filippo Inzaghi scored both goals for Milan (45’ and 82’) and Dirk Kuyt replied for Liverpool at 89’. Milan captain Paolo Maldini, becoming the oldest non-goalkeeper to take part in a final at a month short of his 39th birthday, collects his fifth winners' medal, one short of the competition record by Real Madrid's Francisco Gento. AC Milan midfielder Clarence Seedorf becomes the first player to win the Champions League four times (Ajax 1995, Real Madrid 1988 and AC Milan 2003 and 2007) |
| 23/5/2004 | Former EOK (Greek Basketball Association) manager, the journalist Theodoros Balfoussias dies aged 66 |
| 23/5/2004 | Panathinaikos put an end to Olympiacos 7-year reign in the Greek league after their 1-0 win over Paniliakos. The green team, which had already conquered the Greek Cup with a 3-1 win over Olympiacos, completes a memorable domestic double |
| 23/5/2001 | 25 years on from their last European Champion Club’s Cup, FC Bayern Munchen lift the trophy for a fourth time after a penalties win (5-4) over Valencia CF at the Champions League final (1-1 reg.) at San Siro, Milan |
| 23/5/1999 | Paniliakos striker Giorgos Papandreou becomes the second player in Greek football history (after Theofilos Varnezis of AEK in the 60s) who has to play as goalkeeper in a match against Aris Salonica |
| 23/5/1998 | Olympiacos lose to Ferencvaros in the Waterpolo European Cup double final |
| 23/5/1992 | One of the best all-time greek football players Costas Davourlis dies of heart attack. He played 11 years in the Greek league (95 goals in 325 games) and 6 years in Second Division. He played for Panahaiki, Olympiacos and Korinthos. He had 12 caps (2 goals) |
| 23/5/1982 | Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles |
| 23/5/1976 | PAOK win their first football championship after an away victory over Ethnikos (0-4) |
| 23/5/1972 | Araken Demelo signs with Panathinaikos for 2.1 million drachmas, as the first Brazilian footballer who ever played for Panathinaikos. Demelo will score 19 goals in 37 games with Panathinaikos, making with Juan Ramón Verón and Antonis Antoniadis a great attacking line. According to Greek laws foreign players are not allowed to play in Greece, unless there is some kind of relation with a Greek. Despite the fact that Demelo will be linked to a Greek sounding surname “Demelos”, comments about the colour of his skin will be heard for a long time. Pavlos Giannakopoulos, later president of Panathinaikos BC, gives money for the acquisition of the player, getting involved for the first time in the team’s administration. |
| 23/5/1954 | England fail to avenge their largest home defeat. Hungary crush them by 7-1 in Budapest's Nep Stadium |
| 23/5/1946 | One month after winning the 50th Boston Marathon with 2:29.27, 36-year-old Cypriot runner, athlete of Olympia Limassol AC, Stelios Kyriakidis, arrives in Athens and at the Ellinikon airport one million people, more people than the population of Athens, greet him. |
| 23/5/1934 | Bonnie Parker, aged 24, and Clyde Barrow, aged 25, the notorious outlaws, robbers and criminals “Bonnie and Clyde” are killed in Louisiana by policemen while driving a stolen Ford V8, the favorite car model of the couple. Clyde wrote to Henry Ford in 1934, congratulating him for the model “I drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with one… it don’t hurt anything to tell you what a fine car you got in your V8” |
| 23/5/1922 | Gene Tunney loses to Harry Greb in round 15. It is his sole professional defeat |
| 23/5/1893 | Ethnikos Gymnastic Club, the second most important athenian athletic club, is founded by 12 Panellinios's members who disagree with president Ioannis Fokianos' policy. Earlier this year, on February 12th, N.A. Kotselopoulos has been dismissed from Panellinios. The difference of opinions is due to the fact that the club organizes costly games for high society, instead of applying to lower classes. Major founders are: Tr. Triantafyllopoulos, I. Sioris, St. Vouros, Nik. Athanassiadis, Al. Demertzis, A. Zinis, K. Demertzis, and others |
