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Anna Korakaki Wins Bronze Medal in Beijing Shooting Competition

Greek champion and Olympic gold medalist Anna Korakaki added another title to her rich athletic career by winning the bronze medal in the second ISSF World Cup in Beijing on Easter Sunday. The golden Olympian won the bronze medal in the 25-meter...

AEK, PAOK to Clash Yet Again in Greek Cup Final

This year's championship team PAOK will face 2018 champion AEK in the final of the Greek Cup, which is scheduled to take place on May 11 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens. It will be the third consecutive time that...

FIFA Tweets Praise for PAOK Football Team's Outstanding Year

FIFA, the international governing body of football, praised on Monday the amazing performance of Thessaloniki's PAOK football club in a Tweet with an accompanying video. The federation uploaded a video showing the PAOK players celebrating their winning of the Superleague...

Thessaloniki Celebrates PAOK Winning the Greek Title After 34 Years

Thessaloniki's PAOK football team won their match against Levadiakos on Sunday evening, securing first place in Greece's Superleague. With a winning score of (5-0), PAOK became Greece's football champion for the first time in 34 years, sparking waves of enthusiasm...

Ultramarathon Runner Yiannis Kouros Honored By Australia

The Australian Ultra Runners Association’s (AURA) added the ultra Marathon runner Yiannis Kouros to its ''Hall of Fame'' on Friday, honoring him for his spectacular, record-breaking career. Some of the most amazing achievements of Kouros, who is now in his...

Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Amazing Dunk Stuns NBA World (video)

Giannis Antetokounmpo took off from just beyond the free-throw line before throwing down a stunning slam dunk during the Milwaukee Bucks' victory over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night. The 'Greek Freak' had 24 points, 17 rebounds and four assists...

Greek Weightlifter Eleni Konstantinidi Wins Two Gold Medals at the European Championships

Weightlifter Eleni Konstantinidi won two gold medals for Greece on Friday at the European Championships taking place in Batumi, Georgia. The Greek athlete won a top spot with her clean and jerk in the 81 kilos category. It was the first...

Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania Plan to Host the World Cup

Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania on Saturday announced a joint effort to host the 2030 World Cup and 2028 Euros. "We are starting a common course, with optimism, with a smile, seriousness, awareness of reality and basically for better days...

Greece's Olympiacos Team Ranks Seventh in the World in Ticket Share

Greece's Olympiacos football team ranked seventh in the world in terms of ticket share in its country's football league during the period between 2013 and 2018. These results were the product of a study conducted by the International Centre for...

Greek Athlete Participates in Toughest Race on Earth

Spiros Logothetis has begun the Herculean task of finishing in the toughest foot race in the world, which takes place annually in the Sahara Desert of southern Morocco. The Greek athlete is currently competing in the six-day, 251 km (156...

Greek Driver Andreas Laskaratos Eyes European Le Mans Series

Andreas Laskaratos is the first Greek driver to take part in the European Le Mans Series which runs on Formula 1 circuits with LMP3 race cars. His first race in the championship circuit will be at France's Paul Ricard raceway...

91-Year-Old Greek Runner Wins Gold at World Masters Championships (video)

Konstantinos Chatziemmanouil, a veteran athlete from the Greek island of Kos, won gold in the 60-meter race on Wednesday at the World Masters Indoor Championships taking place in Poland. Chatziemmanouil competed in the "90+" category and finished the race in...

Euro 2020: Greece Fights Back to Earn a Draw in Bosnia (video)

Greece fought back from two goals down to earn a 2-2 draw in Bosnia after the hosts had Miralem Pjanic sent off in a pulsating Euro 2020 Group J qualifier on Tuesday. Goals from Edin Višća and Miralem Pjanic in...

Greek Athletes Return Triumphant From Abu Dhabi Special Olympics

The 92-member team representing Greece at the Special Olympics held in Abu Dhabi last week returned to Greece on Monday full of pride, joy and emotion -- and loaded down with 64 medals. Greek officials welcomed the team at the...

Kickboxer Zambidis Triumphs, Winning Match Fighting with One Arm (video)

Greek kickboxing champion Mike Zambidis scored a great victory against Spanish boxer Antonio Gomez, fighting for two and a half rounds  in Stuttgart on Saturday -- with one arm. Zambidis exhibited amazing fortitude, managing to somehow overcome his grave injury. The...