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Two goals from Kostas Fortounis and Anastasios Donis gave Greece a 2-0 win over Liechtenstein in the 2020 European Cup Qualifiers Group J in Vaduz on Saturday night. The Greek national team dominated throughout the opening game of the qualifiers tournament with...

Greek champion in shooting Anna Korakaki won her first medal in the level of women by winning the silver in the 10-meter air pistol airship at the Osijek European Championship in Croatia with a total score of 242.9. An hour...

Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas announced on Saturday that he will begin playing his  matches using a new racket, painted blue and white, after the colors of the Greek flag. The 20-year old athlete, who amazed the world recently with...

  Greek businessman and former sports club owner Thanassis Giannakopoulos died on Tuesday morning at the age of 88. Giannakopoulos had been hospitalized recently in a private hospital, following a stroke. Giannakopoulos and his brother Pavlos were the owners of the giant...

The Greek derby between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos at Athens Olympic Stadium was abandoned on Sunday due to unrest and violence in the crowd. In the middle of the second half, as their team was losing 1-0, Panathinaikos fans clashed with...

Thousands of professional and amateur runners participated in the 8th Athens Half Marathon held in the center of the Greek capital on Sunday morning. The race held on a beautiful and warm spring day started and ended in Syntagma Square,...

Footballer Kosta Babarouses - a 28-year-old born in Wellington of Greek heritage - has been praised for a classy tribute to the Christchurch shootings victims after scoring an A-League goal. The Melbourne Victory forward sank to his knees in a...

The draw was made on Saturday for the FIBA World Cup 2019 which will take place in China starting on August 31, with the final scheduled for September 15. Greece will play in Group F with Brazil, Montenegro, and New...

Despite losing to Roger Federer in the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship tournament on Saturday, Stefanos Tsitsipas climbed up to Number 10 in the the ATP tennis rankings on Monday. Awarded a total of 3.175 points, the...

Paraskevi (Voula) Papachristou on Sunday won the silver medal in the triple jump event at the European Indoor Championships that are held in Glasgow. Papachristou jumped 14.50 meters in her first attempt, which is a personal best. It is the second...

Greek long jumper Miltiadis Tentoglou on Sunday won the gold medal with 8.38m which is the world best performance in 2019 at the European Indoor Championships that are held in Glasgow. Tentoglou achieved the best indoor mark by a European...

Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas failed to defeat Swiss superstar Roger Federer for a second time in 2019, losing to the World Number 7 in two sets 4-6, 4-6 in the Dubai Final on Saturday. Tsitsipas stunned the world when he...

The Spanish tennis superstar Rafael Nadal, currently ranked world No. 2, is looking forward to opening his new tennis academy in Halkidiki, northern Greece in April. Located at the Sani Resort, a stunning complex comprising more than 400 hectares, the...

Top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas won his first singles title of the year with a 7-5 7-6 (5) victory over Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin at the Marseille Open on Sunday. The 20-year-old Greek tennis player beat the 31-year-old Kukushkin in a little...

Two Greek women are poised for their attempt to conquer the world's highest mountain, Everest, on April 5, 2019. Vanessa Archontidou, a mother of two, and her teammate Christina Flambouri have already topped the summits of the highest mountains on...