| 3/3/2024 | Two-time "bronze" European judoka champion Theodoros Tselidis, under the guidance of the national coach Nikos Iliadis, wins the gold medal at -90 kg at the Tashkent Grand Slam, achieving the biggest distinction in his Grand Slam career |
| 3/3/2024 | Greek athlete Emmanouil Karalis wins the bronze medal in the pole vault competition at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. |
| 3/3/2023 | Greek athlete Nikos Andrikopoulos wins the silver medal in the triple jump event with 16.58 (personal best) in his fifth attempt at the European Indoor Athletics Championships held in Istanbul |
| 3/3/2019 | 20-year-old Greek athlete Miltos Tentoglou, wins the gold medal in long jump competition at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow. His jump of 8.38m is the world’s best performance in 2019. Voula Papachristou wins silver at the triple jump event with 14.50 (personal best) in her first attempt, while Nikol Kyriakopoulou wins the bronze medal in the women's pole vault event with 4.65. |
| 3/3/2017 | Greek athlete Kostas Filippidis wins silver in the men’s pole vault at the European Indoor Championships 2017 in Belgrade by clearing 5.85 meters. Polish athlete Piotr Lisek wins his first gold medal at a major championships with the bronze going to Pawel Wojciechowski. |
| 3/3/2009 | A bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by 10-12 gunmen on its way to play a Test match in the Pakistani city of Lahore. At least six policemen escorting the team bus are killed, along with a driver, while seven cricketers and an assistant coach are injured. Pakistan had invited Sri Lanka to tour only after India's cricket team pulled out of a scheduled cricket tour. |
| 3/3/2000 | Lothar Matthaeus' farewell Bundesliga game with Bayern Munich (against Stuttgart) |
| 3/3/2000 | Olympiacos face Ethnikos at the Greek water polo cup final for the first time in 44 years. Ethnikos win 12-11 in overtime |
| 3/3/1989 | The general manager of Levadiakos Kalomiris is caught in the attempt to bribe the referee for the match between Levadiakos and Larissa |
| 3/3/1985 | Willie Shoemaker becomes the first jockey to surpass $100 million when he wins the Santa Anita Handicap in Arcadia, California |
| 3/3/1985 | The 16th European Indoor Athletics Championships conclude in Peace & Friendship Stadium. Just before the start, SEGAS has withdrawn 5 of its champions because of suspicions of doping |
| 3/3/1976 | Tassos Mitropoulos makes his debut in the Greek league with Ethnikos. In his career he played for all major athenian clubs: Olympiacos, AEK and Panathinaikos. During the 1997-98 season he was the oldest player in the league. His last match, Olympiacos vs Rosenborg for the Champions League |
| 3/3/1975 | Francis Larrien sets 2 world records in one race (4:09.8/ 1500m and 4:28.5/ mile) during a USA - Soviet Union indoors meeting |
| 3/3/1974 | Olympiacos defeats Fostiras with 11-0 creating a record in the history of the First Division. During that season, Olympiacos has the first 8 players in the first-scorer list of the championship. The team is created by Nikos Goulandris, who became president in 1972 and has brought great players of the era, such as Viera, Losanda, Triantafyllos, Argyroudis, Delikaris, Gioutsos, Persidis, etc. |
| 3/3/1974 | 346 passengers are killed in an air crash in France. Among them the 33 year-old British runner John Cooper, silver medalist in 400m in the Tokyo 1964 Olympics |
| 3/3/1928 | Ronnie Dix of Bristol Rovers becomes the youngest player (15 years and 180 days old) to score in the football league in a match against Norwich |
| 3/3/1875 | the first recorded indoor ice hockey game takes place at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Five years later, the amateur ice league will begin. |
