| 16/7/2023 | Fondas Lebesi's junior men's polo team beat Serbia 14-13 (9-9 regular time and 5-4 on penalties) to claim the bronze medal at the U15 European Championships in Podgorica, Montenegro |
| 16/7/2023 | Manolis Stefanoudakis improves this year's performance and climbs to the highest step of the podium in the javelin final (F54) with a throw of 29.17m, in his last attempt, at the Paris 2023 Para Athletics World Championships. Slovakian Ladislav Kucran won the silver medal with a throw of 28.94m. and in 3rd place the Indian Abhishek Chamoli with a shot at 24.16m. |
| 16/7/2023 | Elina Dzengo wins the gold medal at the women U23 javelin competition with a throw of 60.73 at the European Championships in Espoo, Finland. The silver medal was won by Estonia's Tugi with 57.62m and the bronze by Ani Alanen (Finland) with 56.67m. |
| 16/7/2022 | Vangelis Koutouleas, volleyball and beach volleyball player from Mesinia, dies of cancer at the age of 56 years. He took his first steps in volleyball with the team of Messiniakos, which under the instructions of the legendary Polish coach Jerzy Welch, then climbed to the men’s A1. He then had a great career at Panathinaikos (8 years / 1 championship), Ktisiphon, Panellinios, Ionikos where he ended his career as an athlete. As a coach, he worked at Ionikos, GEM and PAOK, before moving to England and Poland, with which he won a championship and two FA Cups. |
| 16/7/2017 | 35-year-old Roger Federer defeats Marin Cilic 3-0 (6-3, 6-1, 6-4) on the Wimbledon final and becomes the oldest men’s champion in the Open era and the first man since Bjorn Borg in 1976 to sweep through the draw without dropping a set |
| 16/7/2006 | Cypriot journalist Giorgos Paraskevas dies of heart failure at a hospital in Larnaka. He was a professional betting player and the creator of www.beto.gr and www.betonet.gr. We wrote for the sports newspaper “Filathlos” and he was named “guru of betting”. |
| 16/7/2004 | Former Aris basketball player, Mihails Misounov, is arrested in a store in Paleo Faliro for the use of fake credit cards which he and his partners, members of an international network who broke into personal information of customers of a hotel resort in Skopia, were manufacturing |
| 16/7/2001 | 59 year-old Belgian Jacques Rogge is elected as the new IOC president, succeeding Juan Antonio Samaranch. He is the 8th president in the 107-year history of the IOC |
| 16/7/2000 | Natalja Lavrevenko, Natalja Stasiouk and Ziovanni Lopez are banned for life from international rowing competitions after testing positive for use of anabolic drugs |
| 16/7/2000 | Manchester United's chief executive Martin Edwards, the man who turned United into the world's richest football club, resigns. He is to be replaced by Peter Kenyon |
| 16/7/1989 | Brazil win the Copa America, their first significant title since 1970, by overcoming Uruguay 1-0 |
| 16/7/1988 | Florence Griffith Joyner sets new 100m world record with 10.49 in the Indianapolis trials. On the same day her sister Jackie Joyner Kersee sets new eptathlon world record with 7.215 points |
| 16/7/1961 | Iolanda Ballas sets her 14th world record in high jump with 1.91m. The record will stand for 10 years. Ballas began with 1.75m in Bucarest (July 14, 1956). Over the next 11 years (1956-1967) she will create a mythical record of 150 successive wins (Moses follows with 122 wins) |
| 16/7/1950 | Uruguay win the 4th World Cup after beating Brazil 2-1 in Maracana in front of 199.854 spectators (the largest crowd in athletic history). Brazilian striker Ademir Menendez Marquez takes the top scorer award (9 goals) |
| 16/7/1945 | The “National Radio Institute” starts operating. Already, there are 36000 radio holders and the 3-month subscription is 1000 drachmas. |
| 16/7/1926 | The first race in the history of car racing in Greece takes place at 10:00 in the morning. It is the “Kilometre Lance”, the one kilometre race with no depart, sponsored by “Vradyni” newspaper. Loukia Pappou will be the winner driving a Bugatti. |
| 16/7/1845 | New York Yacht Club holds the first American boating regatta |
