| 25/2/2023 | With his participation in the PAS Giannina - PAOK match for the 24th matchday of Stoiximan Super League, the 17-year-old footballer of PAOK, Stefanos Tzimas becomes the first footballer born in 2006 to participate in the major league. It is worth noting that in the history of the Super League no footballer born in 2005 has yet managed to compete. |
| 25/2/2023 | Olympic champion Armand Duplantis breaks pole vault world record for sixth time with 6.22 at the All Star Perche 2023 event in Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| 25/2/2023 | Olympic gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias wins gold at Cottbus Artistic Gymnastics World Cup scoring 14.966 points |
| 25/2/2014 | 49-year-old Jürgen Brümmer, nine-time West German champion and member of the West German gymnastics team at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, commits suicide by jumping off a bridge in Stuttgart, after killing his disabled, by a car accident, 15-year-old son, Simon. |
| 25/2/2008 | Kyriakos Griveas, member of the Paralympic Committee and president of the Hellenic Sports Federation for Persons with Disabilities, dies at the age of 53. He had won the silver medal in swimming during the 1988 Paralympic Games in Seoul. |
| 25/2/2001 | Australian cricketer Sir Donald George Bradman dies at the age of 92. “The Don” was widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time, with a Test bating average of 99.94, which has been cited as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major event. The ABC's (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) national GPO Box number of 9994 is taken from Bradman's batting average. |
| 25/2/2001 | The world's greatest cricketer, Australian Donald Bradman, dies in Adelaide aged 92 |
| 25/2/1996 | Maria Mutola of Mozambique sets new 1000m world indoor record with 2'31''.23 |
| 25/2/1994 | Former chess champion Triantafyllos Siaperas dies aged 62. In 1967 he wrote one of the first books about chess in Greece, he held the Greek record in blind chess against 6 opponents, while he was the first Greek to surpass 2400 ELO points. |
| 25/2/1982 | Record speed for a snowmobile, 239 km/h |
| 25/2/1977 | 29-year-old Pete Maravich of New Orleans creates a record for a guard in the NBA when he scores 68 points. Maravich, who is known as "Pistol Pete" will die at the age of 40 on 5/1/1988 and three years later, in 1991, Bob Dylan will write “Dignity” inspired by the player’s life. |
| 25/2/1964 | 22-year-old Cassius Clay knocks out Sonny Liston in round 6 (Liston doesn’t show up in round 7 because of an arm injury) at Miami Beach and is crowned heavyweight champion for the first time in his career. Gospel singer Sam Cooke, who is among the spectators, is called to step on the ring to celebrate the victory.After the fight, Clay will announce that he joined the Nation of Islam and that he changed his name to Muhammad Ali. The two boxers will meet again on 25/5/1965 and Clay will knock out Liston in the first round |
| 25/2/1962 | Mike O’ Hara creates a record of 97 participations in marathon races |
| 25/2/1951 | First Panamerican Games open in Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 25/2/1940 | First televised hockey game. The New York Rangers beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-2 at Madison Square Garden |
| 25/2/1934 | "Camel Battles" are held in Panathinaikos Stadium, where two camels attack each other and bit each other until one is exhausted. The art is, with the help of their necks, which are long, to knock one camel's legs against the other and make it lie on the ground. |
| 25/2/1924 | Marie Boyd scores 156 points in a Maryland High School basketball game (163-3) |
