| 18/6/2023 | Dora Goundoura loses 14-15 to France's Manon Apeti Brunet and takes third place and the bronze medal in the saber in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, an event that has the character of a European championship for the individual competitions of the three weapons. |
| 18/6/2023 | Under the guidance of the national judo coach Nikos Iliadis, Elizabeth Teltsidou wins the gold medal in the Grand Slam held in Astana, Kazakhstan and "breaks" the record of Ilias Iliadis by reaching a total of four medals, against three of "Mr. Ippon". |
| 18/6/2022 | Evangelia Platanioti wins the bronze medal in freestyle solo swimming at the World Aquatics in Budapest with 89,5110 points |
| 18/6/2021 | Giampiero Boniperti was an Italian footballer who played his entire 15-season career at Juventus between 1946 and 1961, winning five Serie A titles and two Coppa Italia titles dies aged 92. He also played for the Italy national team at international level, and took part at the 1950 and 1954 FIFA World Cup finals, as well as the 1952 Summer Olympics with Italy. After retirement from professional football, Boniperti was a CEO and chairman of Juventus and, later, a deputy to the European Parliament. |
| 18/6/2020 | Legendary three-time Olympic champion and water polo coach Tibor Benedek dies at the age of 47. Tibor Benedek, who is considered one of the best water polo players ever and arguably the best left-handed player ever, was part of the Hungarian national team, the Golden Team, that emerged Olympic champion three times in a row (in 2000, 2004, and 2008). This adds to a European and World Championship crown. In addition, after having retired from playing, from 2013 he also coached the national team and led it once again to clinch the World Championship title in his first year at charge. He debuted in the adult team at the 1991 World Cup. At that tournament, at the age of 19, he won a World Cup bronze medal. A year later, he was already an Olympian and by 1996 he had become a leading figure of the team. He became European Champion with the national team in Seville in 1997. Two years later, he could not participate in Florence at the European Championships due to a ban, but later, he became a three-time Olympic champion with the legendary Hungarian team of the 2000, 2004, 2008 Summer Olympic Games. At the time of the 2004 title defense, he was already in charge as a team captain, but after that he temporarily resigned from the national team due to a heart condition. He returned in 2007, a year before the third Olympic gold medal. From 2013 on, until the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio, he was national coach of the Hungarian men’s water polo team |
| 18/6/2018 | Kostas Politis, coach of the Greek national team that won the European Basketball Championship in 1987, dies aged 76, after suffering from deteriorating health. He played with Panathinaikos, winning three Greek League championships in 1967, 1969, and 1971. He also coached Panathinaikos (twice), PAOK and AEK. He led Panathinaikos to three Greek Championships (1979-80, 1980-81 and 1981-82) and two Greek Cups (1978-79, 1981-82). He became coach of the national team in 1982 and led Greece to 10th place at the World Cup in Spain in 1986. He ended his career with the historic win of the 1987 Eurobasket in Athens. |
| 18/6/2012 | Alketas Panagoulias, the Greek association football player and manager, dies at the age of 78 at his home in Virginia, in the United States. He started his football career as a player for Aris Thessaloniki and then moved to the USA. He returned to Athens as the assistant coach of the Greece national football team, under the famous Northern Ireland coach Billy Bingham, in 1972. In the next year, he became Head Coach of the Greek National Football team until 1981, leading the team to the final stage of Euro 1980 and Mundial 1994. He also coached Olympiacos from 1981–1983, earning the championship title in 1982 and 1983 and he them moved back to the US to become the US national soccer team coach. |
| 18/6/2010 | 43-year-old shipowner Vangelis Marinakis buys 67% of the shares of Olympiacos FC paying an amount which exceeds 100 million euros to Socratis Kokkalis. Socratis Kominakis of Wind and Nikos Karahalios, former head of the New Democracy party political planning, take the positions of the vice-president and the communications manager respectively. |
| 18/6/2008 | Greece loses 2-1 to Spain recording the team’s third defeat in EURO 2008. Angelos Haristeas scores the only goal in the competition and Antonis Nikopolidis plays for the last time with the national team of Greece. |
| 18/6/2007 | Lakis Glezos dies of cancer aged 60. He started his football career with Proodeftiki, playing from 1964 until 1971, when he moved to Olympiacos. With the Piraeus team he won 3 Championships and 2 Greek Cups while he caped 10 times with the national team scoring one goal. In 1978 he transferred to Kallithea, where he ended his career |
| 18/6/2000 | LA Lakers win their first NBA title (12th) in 12 years after beating Indiana Pacers. It is coach Phil Jackson's 7th title (the first without Michael Jordan). Shaquil O'Neil is voted playoffs MVP. Center John Salles becomes the first NBA player to have won the title with 3 teams (Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles) |
| 18/6/2000 | Zlatko Zahovic scores the only goal for Slovenia and the 300th goal in the history of the European Championships at the group phase match between Slovenia and Spain (1-2) in Amsterdam Arena |
| 18/6/1999 | Greece manage to amass 80 points to remain in men's Super League after taking 5th place in the 4x400m relay on the last day of the Bruno Zauli European Cup in Paris |
| 18/6/1995 | Michael Johnson becomes the first American champion in the 200 and 400m races since 1899 at the USA-Mobil Championships |
| 18/6/1994 | Ethnikos win their 35th title after beating Olympiacos 12-10. Ethnikos dominated the water polo championships for many years in the past (1953-1968 and 1972-1985) |
| 18/6/1994 | The ''Gay Olympics'' open in New York |
| 18/6/1986 | The first “Acropolis”, the international basketball tournament, commences. It will last until 20/6 and Greece will be placed third with 4 points, after Yugoslavia (6p.) and Italy (5p.). The Netherlands will be positioned on the 4th place with 3 points. |
| 18/6/1985 | For the first time in Wimbledon history two tennis players (Chris Evert Loyd and Martina Navratilova) share no1 |
| 18/6/1976 | 22-year-old international striker Thomas Mavros is transferred from Panionios to AEK for 4 million drachmas. Mavros, who will become one of the leading and most important scorers in Greece, will return to Panionios 11 years after (in 1987-88) and he will play for another four |
| 18/6/1967 | Jack Nicklaus beats Arnold Palmer for the US Open after smashing Ben Hogan's 1948 Open scoring record by one stroke (275) |
| 18/6/1952 | 20-year-old Lakis Petropoulos is transferred to Panathinaikos from Asteras, a team from the area of Gizi from which Costas Linoxilakis came to PAO a year ago. The team will eventually sell all of its players and seize to exist, while Petropoulos will debut with the national football team on 1/11/1952 and play a total of three times |
| 18/6/1938 | Italy win their second consecutive World Cup after defeating Hungary 4-2 at Colombes Stadium in Paris. The Italians had no choice but ''to win or die'' according to the telegram they received from Benito Mussolini. With 2 goals against Sweden Brazilian striker Leonidas Da Silva takes the top scorer award (8 goals) |
| 18/6/1932 | FIBA (originally FIBB) is founded in Geneva. Greece (represented by Simeon Mauroskoufis and Giorgos Ambatzioglou) is one of the founding members. L. Boufard is elected chairman and W. Jones general secretary |
| 18/6/1867 | ''Ruthless'' wins the first Belmont Stakes |
| 18/6/1865 | Evaggelos Zappas dies. He contributed a large amount of money to building Zappeion Megaron and financing ''Olympia'' every 4 years, along with commercial exhibitions (4 games took place between 1859 and 1888). These games remained in history as ''Zappas' Olympiads'' |
