| 18/2/2024 | Dauren Kurugliev wins the gold medal in the 86k category at the European Men's Wrestling Championship held in Bucharest. The Greek champions beat Anime from San Marino 2-1 to climb back to the top step of the podium after being European champion in 2023 in Zagreb. |
| 18/2/2023 | Antigoni Drisbioti finishes first in the 3,000m walk with 12.18.26 at the National Indoor Athletics Championship hosted at SE, breaking her own national record (12.21.43 since 2022) and marking the top performance in the world for this year, surpassing French Pauline Stay, who did 12: 26.45 on 11/2. Two hours later, Greek pole vault champion and fourth at the Tokyo Olympic Games Emmanuel Karalis jumps 8.76m. and sets a national record breaking that of Kostas Filippidis (5.85m.) |
| 18/2/2021 | Olympiacos defeats PSV 4-2 for the 1st leg of Europa League – Round of 32 and Pedro Martins becomes the manager with the most European presences in the team’s bench (37) surpassing the record previously held by Dušan Bajevic (36) |
| 18/2/2015 | Andreas Garyfallos dies at age of 86. The "patriarch" of Greek water polo, was a major contributor to the creation of the Ethnikos Piraeus, the team that managed to win 37 championships. Garyfallos won 8 championships in the Panhellenic swimming races, 18 championships and 6 Greek Cups in water polo, had 140 appearances with the national team, and excelled in the National Armed Forces team, where he was player coach ¬ and captain winning twice the World title. He participated in the 1968 Mexico Olympics, where he was a player and a coach, scoring 4 goals. He worked as a coach for more than 15 years in the National Men's and Youth teams, leading them to 3 Olympic Games, 5 World and 6 European Championships. In A1 Men Category, he was the coach of Kerkyra (1987-1988), Iraklis (1996-97) and Ethnikos Piraeus (1997-1998) where he devoted most of his life as an athlete and coach. He also coached Panathinaikos and Chios, and he was President of the Board of Directors of Ethnikos Piraeus. |
| 18/2/2014 | 36-year-old violin player Vanessa Mae, a skier since the age of four, represents Thailand in the 2014 Winter Olympics as an alpine skier with the name Vanessa Vanakorn finishing 67th in the Giant Slalom competition. Vanakorn attempted to represent Thailand for the 2002 Winter Olympics, but was unable to do so at the time, as the Thai Olympic Committee had requested she give up her British citizenship, which she was not ready to do. In 2009 Vanessa-Mae took up residence and started to train competitively in 2010. |
| 18/2/2006 | World record holder with 1:07.03, US Shani Davis wins the gold medal at the 1000m speed skating with 1:08:89 in Turin, becoming the first coloured athlete to win a gold medal in the history of Winter Olympics. US Joey Cheek wins the silver medal with 1:09.16 and Erben Wennemars from Netherlands the bronze medal with 1:09.32 |
| 18/2/2001 | American driver Dale Earnhardt dies when his car slams into the wall on the final turn at the Daytona 500 in Florida |
| 18/2/2001 | Romanian champion Gabriela Szambo smashes Elly Van Hulst's 12 year-old 3000m world record (8:33.82) with 8:32.88 at an international meeting in Birmingham |
| 18/2/1996 | Frankie Fredericks of Namimbia becomes the first to break the 20 seconds barrier in the 200m race |
| 18/2/1973 | Costas Negrepontis dies at the age of 76. He was one of the most significant figures of AEK connecting the team’s past and rebirth, as he was a player of the football team of Pera Klub in Constantinople AEK (1925-1933) and later became AEK’s coach for 15 years |
| 18/2/1972 | Randy Smith begins his streak of 906 consecutive NBA games (Buffalo Braves, San Diego Clippers, Cleveland Cavaliers and New York Knicks) |
| 18/2/1968 | The 10th Winter Olympic Games close in Grenoble, France. 1.081 men and 212 women from 35 countries took part. For the first time in Winter Olympics history, Germany was represented by two separate teams |
| 18/2/1948 | The CISM is founded by member states Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Danemark and France in Nice, France. Greece will become member on March 8, 1950 |
| 18/2/1928 | First motorcycle race on cinder track- in High Beech, Essex |
| 18/2/1882 | England beat Northern Ireland 13-0 in Belfast. Oliver Vaughton (5 goals) and Arthur Brown (4 goals) become the first British to score a hat-trick in an international match |
