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Brimin Kipkorir Misoi from Kenya is the athlete who finished first in the 36th Authentic Athens Marathon on Sunday, clocking at 2:10:57. Over 55,000 runners from 105 countries flooded Attica to compete in the classical 42km route and the 5km...

On Saturday, Eleni Chatziliadou won the gold medal in the +68 kg category and became Womens Karate world champion after beating Japanese champion Ayumi Uekusa in the World Championship held in Madrid. This was a rematch for Chatziliadou, since she was beaten...

More than 15,000 foreign athletes and other participants have arrived in Athens for Sunday's 36th Athens Marathon The Original, expected to break the participation record for the event. More than 55,000 runners will participate in three different marathon races, while more...

'Greek Challenge' along with the municipality of the southern Aegean island of Leros have teamed up in order to bid and host international sailing events, including the Extreme Sailing Series. The announcement was made during the National Hellenic Society...

Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas plans to temporarily move to Australia at the end of the year, relocating in order to prepare for the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of 2019, which will be take place in Melbourne...

World champion and Olympic gold medalist Lefteris Petrounias, who competes in the still rings event in artistic gymnastics, underwent surgery to his left shoulder in Annecy, France, on Monday. The procedure is intended to correct a problem with his...

Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania are planning to propose a joint bid to host the FIFA World Cup in 2030, the four state leaders decided on Friday. The four men met on the sidelines of a summit in the Bulgarian...

In yet another illustrious addition to his medal collection, Greek gymnast Lefteris Petrounias won the gold medal in the still rings competition after a spectacular performance at the World Gymnastics Championships, taking place in Doha. Competing despite an injury, Petrounias...

A platform popular with tens of thousands of athletes worldwide, Racecheck, was created by Greek siblings Alexandros and Katerina Tanti. The app was inspired by the duo's love for triathlons. Together, the siblings created the Racecheck website, to be accompanied...

Kenan Özer, the 31-year-old member of the Ankaragücü football team, caused a widespread outcry in Turkey after calling Istanbul its Greek Byzantine-era name of Constantinople. Özer, according to Turkey’s Hurriyet daily, wrote on his personal Instagram account that "The conquest...

The coaching vacancy of Greece's national soccer team is set to be filled just days after the squad's previous coach was ousted. Following the decision of the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) to terminate Michael Skibbe's contract, Angelos Anastasiades is...

The Hellenic Football Federation decided on Thursday to terminate the contract with the coach of the national team Michael Skibbe. Following a series of disappointing performances in the first rounds of UEFA's newly formed Nations League competition, the Federation dropped him....

Giannis Antetokoumpo made history with his latest triple-double as the Milwaukee Bucks scored a resounding 123-108 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers. The "Greek freak" posted a 34-point, 18-rebound, 10-assist performance in the win. It was his fourth straight 25-point, 15-rebound...

AEK's coach Marinos Ouzounidis bowed to the superiority of Bayern Munich after his team lost 2-0 to the German giants at the Olympic Stadium in Athens. "They are on a different level to us", Ouzounidis admitted, as AEK suffered their...

A photo of Julia Tsitsipas, mother of rising Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas, consoling Latvian Ernests Gulbis after his defeat to her son at the Stockholm Open on Sunday has gone viral. Julia Tsitsipas-Salnikova, herself a former tennis player, approached...