| 5/2/2023 | Stefanos Tsitsipas defeats Andreas Andrard 7-6, 6-1 at OAKA and with a total score of 3-1 over Ecuador sends Greece to the World Group of Davis Cup. The Greek tennis team moves up to the 1st division (it was 3rd in 2019) after 19 years. Tsitsipas maintains his Davis Cup unbeaten streak with 10 wins in as many matches. |
| 5/2/2023 | Out of the 114 teams competing in the Kasparov Cup, the NTUA Le Roi Chess Team (Dimitris Alexakis, Yannis Kalogeris, Konstantinos Tsarsitalides, and Anastasis Koukas) representing the National Technical University of Athens and Greece rank first place in Europe and fifth place in the world. |
| 5/2/2020 | Angeliki Kourkoulou becomes the first female sportscaster to comment on a football match broadcasted nation-wide. She shared the commentary with her colleague Michalis Tsigris during the match Mirandes – Villareal for the Spanish Copa del Rey for OPEN TV. |
| 5/2/2015 | Legendary German coach Udo Lattek dies aged 80. He is the only coach in Germany to win 8 titles, 6 with Bayern Munich (1970-1975, 1983-1987) and 2 with Borussia Moenchengladbach (1975-1979). Along with Giovanni Trapattoni is the only coach to have won all three major European club titles, the European Cup with Bayern in 1974, the UEFA Cup with Gladbach in 1979 and the Cup Winners' Cup with Barcelona in 1982. |
| 5/2/2003 | Philippine anti-graft court Sandiganbayan convicts Florencio Campomanes, honorary president and former FIDE president (1982-1995), for failure to accredit government funds to the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC). Campo will be sentenced to prison for one year and 10 months, but will be cleared of charges. |
| 5/2/2000 | Ricardo Pittis of Benetton Treviso completes 500 consecutive appearances in the italian basketball championship. He made his debut on September 21, 1986. He has won 3 championship titles, 5 Cups, 2 European Championship titles, 2 European Cups, 1 Korac Cup, 1 Intercontinental Cup and 1 Super Cup. He has been capped 116 times (2 silver medals) |
| 5/2/2000 | Italy becomes the 6th country to join the European Rugby League. The League was set up by the 4 british countries in 1883. France joined later |
| 5/2/1977 | Sugar Ray Leonard (olympic gold in 1976) beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his first professional fight |
| 5/2/1977 | 1st International Special Olympics Winter Games start in Colorado Springs, USA |
| 5/2/1972 | Bob Douglas becomes the first black player elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame |
| 5/2/1970 | Preston Rudolph York, a Major League Baseball first baseman, who played for the Detroit Tigers (1934, 1937-45), Boston Red Sox (1946-47), Chicago White Sox (1947) and Philadelphia Athletics (1948), dies aged 57 |
| 5/2/1963 | Vassilis Georgiou begins his career as a sportscaster (Panathinaikos - Asteras 2-1 at Leoforos) |
| 5/2/1956 | The 7th Winter Olympic Games close in Cortina d' Ampezzo, Italy. 686 men and 132 women from 32 countries took part. For the first time the games were televised |
| 5/2/1948 | Dick Button becomes the first American to win olympic gold in ice skating at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics. Four years later he will repeat his triumph in Oslo |
| 5/2/1931 | Maxine Dunlap becomes the first woman to get a glider pilot license |
| 5/2/1927 | Henri Delaunay's suggestion to create a european football championship faces so many objections that it will take 30 years to materialize (March 27, 1957). Delaunay will only live to see UEFA founded (1954) |
| 5/2/1922 | First metal tennis racket (made by William Larned) tested |
| 5/2/1860 | Show Alter fabricates the baseball ball |
