| 26/1/2024 | Olympiacos loses to Real (90-85), but captain Kostas Papanikolaou sets a career high with 25 points and 6/8 three-pointers (along with 2/4 two-pointers and 3/4 shots) in 24' of participation, surpassing the 22 points he scored against Valencia almost a year ago, on February 24, 2023. But in addition to his record, he also broke another streak, as for the first time in 110 consecutive games he did not start in the starting lineup five |
| 26/1/2024 | Anna Korakaki wins the women's air pistol gold medal with a score of 241.1 at the World Cup in Cairo. Christina Moschi is placed 5th. |
| 26/1/2020 | Kobe Bryant, one of basketball’s greatest players and most masterful scorers of all time, was among the passengers who died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. Bryant's 13-year-old daughter Gianna was also killed in the crash, along with other 7 people. Bryant was an 18-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, 12-time member of the All-Defensive Team, and the 2008 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP). |
| 26/1/2020 | Greece’s top cyclist Christos Volikakis won first place in the overall Omnium rankings at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Milton, Canada, securing his number one position in the world |
| 26/1/2014 | Greek athlete Gianis Bloutis wins the gold medal in the -82kgs Master 2 brown-belt category at the European Jiu Jitsu Open Championship in Lisbon, Portugal |
| 26/1/2003 | Former high jump champion, Valeriy Brumel, dies, age 61, in a Moscow hospital after a long illness. He set his first world record on 18/1/1961, he broke it four more times and he held it for ten consecutive years |
| 26/1/1999 | Seton Town sign 18-month old George Harwood for 12.5 years |
| 26/1/1996 | Boxer Dave Schultz is shot dead in John Du Pont's villa in a suburb of Philadelphia. Du Pont will turn himself in 48 hours later |
| 26/1/1980 | Mary Decker becomes the first woman to run the mile in less than 4.5 minutes |
| 26/1/1979 | Wayne Gretzky signs on his 18th birthday a 3-year contract of $10 million with the Edmonton Oilers. The same year he was proclaimed ''Rookie of the Year''. Being the most dominant player in ice hockey history, he was called ''the great one''. 9 MVP awards, all-time scoring leader in points, assists and goals. He played on 5 Stanley Cups with Edmonton. During the 1981-82 season he scored 92 goals to smash Esposito's record (76). In 1988 he was traded to LA Kings for $15 million and 2 players |
| 26/1/1977 | Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai and Marine Tcherkasova are the first to perform a ''quadrople twist'' lift in Helsinki |
| 26/1/1951 | Nikos Foskolos begins his career as sportscaster. Many years later he will become a very successful TV series producer |
| 26/1/1924 | Charles Jewtro is the first olympic winner in Winter Olympics history |
| 26/1/1871 | Rugby Football Union (RFU) is founded in London by 21 English rugby and football clubs, leading to the standardization of the rules for all clubs in England that played a variety of the Rugby School laws. Fifty years ago, in 1823, William Webb-Ellis was the scholar “who took the ball in his arms and ran” at Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby. However, all these years and until the formation of the Football Association (FA) in October 1863, opposing football teams used to agree on a set of rules before each match |
