| 17/11/2019 | 21-year-old tennis champion Stefanos Tsitsipas beats Dominic Thiem (6-7 (6-8) 6-2 7-6 (7-4)) to win Nitto ATP Finals title at the London O2 Arena, becoming the youngest winner of the season-ending championships since Australia's Lleyton Hewitt in 2001. One day before, in the semi-final, he knocked out six-time champion Roger Federer. |
| 17/11/2016 | 15-year-old Giorgos Ioannou of Atlantas Peristeri, wins the bronze medal at the -48 category during the 2016 World Tae Kwon Do Junior Championships held in Bernaby, Canada. Ioannou lost 17-8 to Korean Jae-Hee Mok. |
| 17/11/2016 | The BBC extends its contract to broadcast Wimbledon for an additional four years, taking its partnership with the All England Club through to 2024.
The agreement means the Grand Slam remains free to air across BBC television, online and radio. |
| 17/11/2016 | José Manuel Pinto, former professional soccer goalkeeper, playing with Barcelona FC from 2008 to 2014 and winning 2 Champions League titles (2009 and 2011) becomes the first footballer to win both a Champions League and a Grammy award. Pinto Wahin was among the engineers who worked on the 2016 winner for best flamenco album at the Latin Grammys, Niña Pastori’s “Amame Como Soy”. He is the inventor of P13Fit, a training method in soccer which combines music with physical training. |
| 17/11/2015 | Yulia Balikina, the 31-year-old sprinter from Belarus, who had disappeared since 28/10, is found dead in an area outside Minsk with the authorities talking about murder. Balikina had participates in the 100m and 4x100m in the Olympic Games of 2012. In June 2013 she had been found positive for doping and was punished with a two-year exclusion. The sentence ended on July 24, 2015. |
| 17/11/2006 | Ferenc Puskas, known as the “galloping major” or “pancho”, coach of Panathinaikos, which he led to the final of European Champions’ Cup in 1971 against Ajax, dies in Budapest at the age of 79. As a player he is considered to be the top scorer of all time, as he scored in any level an average of one goal per game: 354 goals in 357 games with Kispest (later Honved) between 1946 and 1956, 84 goals in 85 games with Hungary between 1949 and 1956 and 155 goals in 179 games with Real Madrid between 1958 and 1967 |
| 17/11/2005 | Despite his co-operation with the German authorities, Berlin court imposes a 29-month sentence without parole to the German referee Robert Hoyzer for his implication in fixing football matches, under the directions of Sapina brothers (Ante, Milan and Philip) of Kroatia. The cause of the investigation was his arbitration in the Paderborn - Hamburger SV match (4-2) of 21/8/2004 where he "formed" the result for 20.000 euros |
| 17/11/2004 | The national football team of Greece wins Kazakhstan 3-1 for the World Cup qualifiers. Thodoris Zagorakis celebrates his 100th game and becomes the 100th player in the world to achieve this. Notable is the fact that in all these games he has not scored once |
| 17/11/1991 | First mountain bike Cross County Cup held in Greece |
| 17/11/1985 | Greece ranks third in weightlifting at the Balkan Games in Plovdiv. Bulgaria takes first place and Romania second |
| 17/11/1981 | Bill Cartwright of the NY Knicks ties NBA record of 19/19 free throws (Kansas City Kings - NY Knicks 124-110) |
| 17/11/1971 | Mimis Papaioannou and Antonis Antoniadis score for Greece at the friendly match against Bulgaria (2-2) at Levski Stadium. Christo Bonev plays for Bulgaria |
| 17/11/1970 | In a friendly match, before 12.000 spectators, Greece looses from Australia 1-3 (Kostas Eleftherakis) at “Leoforos”. The terrible appearance of the team will make EPO impose a 3000 drachma fee to every player |
| 17/11/1954 | Golfer Arnold Palmer turns professional after signing a contract with Wilson Sporting Goods |
| 17/11/1954 | ''L' Equipe'', Europe's biggest sports paper, announces the creation of European Champions Cup |
| 17/11/1869 | British James Moore wins the first bicycle race after covering a 123 klm distance from Paris to Rouen |
