| 17/10/2024 | 21-year-old Greek triathlete, Bitados Panagiotis from Mytilene, after winning the title of European champion in Tallinn, wins the silver medal at the U23 World Triathlon Championships taking place in Andalusia with a time of 1:45:16. |
| 17/10/2022 | The 34-year-old striker Karim Benzema, after winning the Champions League (top scorer with 15 goals in 12 matches) and La Liga (top scorer with 27 goals in 32 matches) with Real, wins for the first time in his career the Ballon d'Or at the ceremony held at the "Théâtre du Châtelet" in Paris, becoming only the 5th Frenchman after Raimond Cope (1958), Michel Platini (1983, 1984, 1985), Jean-Pierre Papin (1991) and Zinedine Zidane (1998) ) and Real Madrid's 8th player after Alfredo Di Stefano, Raimon Copa, Ronaldo, Luis Figo, Fabio Cannavaro, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luka Modric. to earn this distinction. |
| 17/10/2004 | Greek table tennis champion Panagiotis Gionis with his domesticated Austrian partner Weixing Chen win the silver medal in the doubles at the Polish Pro Tour after losing with 3-4 sets to the Germans Timo Boll and Christian Suss in front of 2000 fans |
| 17/10/1999 | Michael Schumacher's first race after his serious injury in Silverstone (on July 11) at the Malaisia Grand Prix. Eddie Irvine (Ferrari) finishes first and Mika Hakkinen (McLaren) second. After the race the Ferraris are found to be illegal. Ferrari appeals and The FIA Court in Paris later rules that the measurements taken were wrong. The 2 Ferraris are reinstated |
| 17/10/1991 | Vassilis Hatzipanagis plays for the last time in a match dedicated to him (Iraklis - Selection 6-5) |
| 17/10/1991 | Jockey Angel Cordero becomes the third jockey to complete 7.000 wins |
| 17/10/1980 | Sepp Piontek, Denmark coach comments on Greek goalkeeper’s Nikos Sarganis excellent performance in the game against Denmark, that he has... five hands. Archelaos, the well known cartoonist of sport newspaper “Athlitiki Echo”, draws the international goalkeeper with six hands |
| 17/10/1978 | Anatoly Karpov beats Viktor Korchnoi 6-5 in Filippines to retain the world title |
| 17/10/1968 | The triple jump world record is smashed five times at the Mexico Olympics by Nelson Prudencio from Brazil (17.27m), Viktor Saneyev from the Soviet Union (who will be the final winner with 17.39m) and Giuseppe Gentile from Italy (17.22m) who will star alongside Maria Callas in Pier Paolo Pasolini's ''Medea'' two years later |
| 17/10/1956 | Robert James (Bobby) Fisher, a 13-year-old unknown from Brooklyn wins in 41 moves Donald Byrne in a game of chess, which will remain in history as “the Game of the Century” and takes place in New York City at the 3rd J. Rosenwald Memorial. The boy, who forces players to analyze the game many times, display with a queen sacrifice on the 17th move, that he has the chutzpah and the talent, which will lead him to the world title after 16 years |
| 17/10/1948 | Rizoupoli Stadium is inaugurated with the friendly match between a team of players playing for the “refugee” clubs (Apollon, Panionios, AEK) and a team of players playing for the “native” clubs (Panathinaikos, Olympiacos) in front of 10,000 fans. The area located next to the Columbia factory has been given to Apollon Smyrni two years earlier, in 1946. Gradually the stadium will be expanded to 14.200 seats and will be renamed to “Giorgos Kamaras”, in memory of one of the top players of the team. |
| 17/10/1860 | First professional golf tournament held in Scotland ( Willie Park wins) |
