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Greek Athlete Elina Tzengko Wins Gold At European Throwing Cup

Elina Tzengko won another European championship in javelin trow on Saturday, winning the gold medal for Greece.

Anna Korakaki Wins Gold in European 10m Air Pistol Championships

  Greek athlete Anna Korakaki triumphed in an intense 10m air pistol competition to win gold at the European Championships held in Tallinn, Estonia, on Friday, March 10. The competition was hotly contested between Korakaki and French shooter Camille Jedrzejewski. However,...

Nikos Andrikopoulos Wins Silver Medal at the European Indoor Championships

Greek athlete Nikos Andrikopoulos won a silver medal in the triple jump event at the European Indoor Championships held in Istanbul on Friday. It was the first time that a Greek athlete had won a medal in this particular athletic...

Greece Wins First Ever Medal at the World Ski Championships

On Sunday, Alexandros Ioannis "AJ" Ginnis won Greece's first ever medal at the Alpine World Championships. He came second in the skiing slalom at Courchevel in France. Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen made a stunning comeback to secure gold at the event....

Greek American George Karlaftis to Make Super Bowl Debut

On Sunday, February 12, Greek-born American football defensive end George Karlaftis will play for the first time in the NFL Super Bowl. The match is set to take place at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, between American Football...

Two Greeks Set Guinness World Record for “Tandem Push-Ups”

Two Greek athletes George Kotsimpos and Apostolos Dervas completed forty-three consecutive sets of push-ups in tandem on December 21, 2022 in Heraklion, Crete in Greece. They thus set a new world record for "Most Consecutive Tandem Pushups." Kotsimpos had had...

Greece’s Stefanidi Becomes First Pole Vaulter to Win Four European Medals

Three-time Olympian Ekaterini (Katerina) Stefanidi won the silver medal for Greece at the European Athletics Championships in Munich on Wednesday.

Stefanos Tsitsipas Crowned Back-To-Back Monte Carlo Champion

Greek tennis sensation Stefanos Tsitsipas defended his title and won his second consecutive Monte Carlo Masters 1000 cup on Sunday, competing against Spanish player Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.  A day after comfortably defeating Alexander Zverev in the semifinals, Tsitsipas prevailed 6-3,...

Greece to Participate in the Beijing Olympic Games with Five Athletes

Five athletes who will represent Greece in the Beijing Winter Olympic Games scheduled to take place from February 4 to 20, 2022 departed from Athens on Sunday. There will be two athletes carrying the Greek national flag during the opening...

Weightlifter Iakovidis Breaks Down at Olympics; Exposes Lack of Support by Greek State

Greek weightlifter Theodoros Iakovidis announced his retirement on Saturday after failing to qualify for the finals at the Tokyo Olympics.