Sports

Revenue from sports tourism worldwide is expected to exceed 2 trillion dollars by 2030. Sports tourism accounts for 13% of the global tourism market and is emerging as one of the fastest-growing sectors of the tourism industry. Giorgos Kosta, Professor of Sports Recreation at the School of Physical...

We turn the calendar back to 1985 and leaf through the sports newspaper “Filathlos”, dated Wednesday, 30 January. Here’s what we read about… The incredible incidents in Salamina and the brutal beating of a referee during the match Aias Salaminas – Anagennisi Artas Anthimos Kapsis being removed f...

With a name as weighty as history itself…The child of the refugees from Fanari, who put down roots in Perama… Founded in 1927, wearing yellow and black and bearing—at first—the emblem of the double-headed eagle, AE Peramatos has inscribed its own indelible chapter in the history of amateur sport. ...

I did everything I could for my homeland, Greece, and for the Greeks.” This is the statement of the first Greek athlete in wrestling to win a gold medal in the men’s category. Giorgos Kougioumtzidis, in addition to being the 2022 European champion, has now also been crowned world champion. He spo...

We explore the history of Mandrakiakos and listen to the club’s anthem, celebrating a team that has risen as far as the Gamma Ethniki. As every Tuesday, the program "Time in Greece" is dedicated to grassroots sport. From the turbulent past of Mandra, traced back to antiquity, to the sporting journey o...

Greek sport recorded yet another international distinction in France. Achilleas Antoniou stepped onto the third tier of the podium at the European Épée Cup. He had claimed the same position in 2024 in Denmark, competing in the team event with the Greek Junior National Team, alongside Fotis Minos a...

We open the newspaper Ta Nea of Thursday, 16 January 1992, and turn to the sports pages to read about… Oleh Blokhin taking Olympiacos to court—over serious money owed Kostas Generakis, president of AEK Athens, warning he may resign—why, exactly? Giorgos Vardinogiannis urging calm Argyris Salia...

The extraordinary story of the Polish-born — and later American — athlete who won Olympic gold, but whose biological characteristics were revealed only after her death. Stanisława Walasiewicz, later known as Stella Walsh, was raised as a girl in the close-knit environment of a Polish village. Upon movi...

We go back to 1973 looking for the roots of the historic Ethnikos Katerinis. It's the team of the railway district of Katerini, with the front of a train as its emblem. The club has competed in the national championships, the Gamma Ethniki and Delta Ethniki, and has won the Pieria Championship three...

He climbed onto the third step of the podium at the European Boxing Championships in Hungary. Zacharias Mylonas competed in the 70-kg weight category. He recounted how he reached the bronze medal in the Under-23 age group in Budapest, sharing his story by joining his own voice with the voice of...

Greece is at the top of the world—boasting the finest goalkeeper on the planet. Ioanna Stamatopoulou, a member of the World Championship Best Seven in Singapore, spoke about a historic moment for Greek sport, as the Greece women's national water polo team claimed the gold medal at the World Championship, w...

Happy New Year to everyone…We step into the new year through memories, turning the hands of the calendar back to the now-distant 1984. We revisit stories from that time by leafing through the sports newspaper Balla, which was published every Tuesday. We look back at: AEK, envisioning a new e...

Nikolas Angelidis and “Time in Greece” present a major research feature bringing to light important and often overlooked aspects of sport during the years of political exile. We turn back the pages of history to a period marked by hardship for a significant part of the Greek people. Our journey beg...

Greece claimed the silver medal at the European Team Sailing Championship (ILCA 4). Italy took gold, while Sweden secured bronze. Fragiski Kosma, Eleni Alchanaki, Stefanos Samaras, and Michalis Akalestos delivered this significant international success for Greek sport. Head coach Nikos Chrysos...

Film director Ismini Sakellaropoulou presents the documentary "Pass for Solidarity", which sheds light on a dark and blood-soaked chapter in the history of the Balkans: the period of NATO’s bombings of the former Yugoslavia. In April 1999, amid ongoing air raids, AEK dares to undertake a historic j...

The bronze medal at the European Boxing Championships, in the 80 kg category, marks Vasiliki Stavridou’s fourth medal at this competition. It follows one silver medal in 2021 and two bronze medals in 2023 and 2024. She spoke about her journey to the third step of the podium in Hungary, in the under-23 a...

It’s Friday, and we open the old chest of newspapers, leafing through news items and stories from another era. In front of us lies the newspaper “Ta Nea” of Saturday, 12 December 1987, as we wander through its sports pages. And this is what we discover… • The draw for the World Cup qualifiers and the a...

Greece has won the bronze medal at the World Shooting Championship in the men’s team skeet event. The trio of athletes — Nikos Mavrommatis, Babis Chalkiadakis, and Panagiotis Gerochristos — stepped onto the third place of the podium at the competition, which was held in Greece, at the Malakasa Shoot...