| 5/3/2023 | 24-year-old Kylian Mbappe becomes Paris St Germain’s all-time top scorer after scoring Paris’ 4th goal in the 4-2 home win against Nantes, reaching 201 goals in all competitions with PSG, improving the mark he shared with Edinson Cavani. |
| 5/3/2023 | Miltos Tentoglou wins his third straight title (after 2019 and 2021) with a jump of 8.30m in his first attempt and pole vaulter Emmanouil Karalis wins the silver medal with 5.80 at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul. |
| 5/3/2023 | Stefanos Tzimas scores PAOK’s 6th goal in the 6-0 victory against Ionikos in Toumba Stadium and becomes the youngest (17 years and 2 months) scorer in the history of the club, breaking the record held by Giorgos Koudas |
| 5/3/2021 | Miltos Tentoglou wins gold in the long-jump competition at the indoor European Athletics Championship which takes place at the Torun Arena in Poland. The Greek champion achieved the world’s best jump of the year landing at 8.35 meters in just his first try. |
| 5/3/2020 | Former AEK president, from 1995 until 1999, Michalis Trochanas dies at the age of 84 |
| 5/3/2018 | 62-year-old Kostakis Koutsokoumnis, president of the Cypriot Football Federation since 2001, dies of cancer being hospitalized since last December at the private clinic "Evangelistria" in the center of Nicosia. Six months earilier, on 28/8/2017, his 33-year-old daughter Elma passed away having the same disease. |
| 5/3/2014 | Cristiano Ronaldo becomes Portugal's all-time leading scorer, netting twice as Portugal thrashes Cameroon 5-1 in a warm-up match between teams preparing for the World Cup. Ronaldo clinched his place in the record book with goals in the 21st and 83rd minutes, taking his international tally to 49 in 110 appearances. The 2013 FIFA world player of the year overtook Pauleta, who retired in 2006 after scoring 47 goals in 88 games. |
| 5/3/2006 | Igor Biscan scores on the 53rd minute against AEK and Panathinaikos wins with 1-0. This is the 3000th goal for PAO in the history of Division A with the first being that of Andreas Papaemannouil scored on the 28th min. of the first day on 25/10/1959. PAO beomes the first team in Division A to score 3000 goals, 1344 of which have been scored from 1959 to 1979 and the rest 1656 during the professional championship. Krzysztof Warzycha is the leading scorer of PAO with 244 goals, followed by Antonis Antoniadis with 180 and Mimis Domazos with 134 |
| 5/3/2005 | 28-year-old German long jumper Bianca Kappler records 6.96 metres at her last jump attempt during the 2005 European Indoor Championships in Madrid, a measurement which would have secured her the gold medal. Kappler admits to the referees that she couldn’t have jumped 6.96m (i.e. 30 cm further than her personal best). Video analysis will confirm the mismeasurement and the jump will be ruled invalid. The silver medal is won in 6.64m, while Kappler remains fourth with 6.53m. In 2008, IAAF will award her the bronze medal for fair play. |
| 5/3/2000 | Dimosthenis Tambakos wins the gold medal in rings (9.750 points) at Moscow international meeting |
| 5/3/1995 | The worst accident In America's Cup history. A boat is split in two by gigantic waves in San Diego. Fortunately the crew is rescued |
| 5/3/1993 | Ben Johnson is banned for life by IAAF for testing positive again during a meeting in Belgium. Canadian sprinter set 100m world record (9.83) at the 1987 World Championships, won 100m at 1988 Olympics, but flunked drug test and forfeited gold medal. In 1989, his 1987 world record was revoked for admitted steroid use and he returned drug-free in 1991, but performed poorly during the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 not reaching the finals |
| 5/3/1970 | It is the first time that a team is relegated for a bribery attempt. The football team of Panahaiki is nullified at the game against Aris as well as at all remaining games, as the Greek Football Federation finds that the accusation of Takis Loukanidis is valid. Aris footballer pointed out that some people of the team of Panahaiki had tried to bribe his team mate, Syropoulos, giving him 40.000 drachmas, so that he and some other players have diminished performance at the match between the two teams, which ended 0-0 |
| 5/3/1960 | American Dallas Long smashes the shot put world record with 19.38m in Los Angeles. It is the beginning of a rivalry with Bill Nider who throws 19.45m on ?arch 19. Long throws 19.67m on March 26. Nider responds with a 19.99m throw in Austin. Four months later, on August 12 Nider will break the 20m barrier |
| 5/3/1924 | Frank Caruana becomes the first bowler to bowl 2 successive perfect games |
| 5/3/1922 | Phoebe Anne Oakley smashes all records in women's trap shooting (98 out of 100 targets) |
| 5/3/1864 | First track-and-field competition between Oxford and Cambridge in England |
