| 2/3/2022 | Manolis Katsiadakis is elected President of the International Fencing Federation (FIE) and becomes the second Greek to occupy this important position in the international arena. He was preceded in the 50's by George Vihos as President of International Shooting Federation (ISSF). Manolis Katsiadakis is a member of EOE and was a fencing champion (1967-70), Balkan Games winner, president of EOX, General Secretary of EOE and international judge. |
| 2/3/2021 | Top European agent Luciano Capicchioni, the man behind the careers of Toni Kukoc, Arvdyas Sabonis, Manu Ginobili, Sasha Danilovic, Zan Tabak, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Theodoros Papaloukas, among many other names, dies at the age of 75. Capicchioni served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Interperformances agency, while his contribution to the sports community extended past basketball. He served as the Vice-Chairman of the San Marino Olympic Committee from 1979 to 1984, during the Moscow and Los Angeles Olympic Games, and was named the Head of Delegation of the San Marino Olympic Committee for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. |
| 2/3/2021 | Liverpool legend and former Scotland striker Ian St John dies aged 82. The Scottish forward won two First Division titles under Bill Shankly at Anfield in 1963-64 and 1965-66 and scored the winner in the 1965 FA Cup final. He also represented Scotland 26 times and would later go on to manage boyhood club Motherwell, as well as Portsmouth. |
| 2/3/2019 | 33-year-old Kostas Baniotis wins silver medal in the high jump competition with 2.26 at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Italian Gianmarco Tamberi won gold after clearing 2.32 m, while Andri Protsenko from Ukraine shared silver with the Greek athlete after also clearing 2.26 m. |
| 2/3/2013 | George Kolokythas dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 68. As a player he played with the Sporting and Panathinaikos. With Panathinaikos, he won four championship titles (1967, 1969, 1971, 1972), while in 1969 he played in the semifinals of the Cup Winners Cup in 1972 and the semifinals of the Champions League. He scored 3,529 points in the Greek league with a record of 51 in the period 1966-1967. In 1964, 1966 and 1967 he was the top scorer of the Greek league. With the National Team he competed in 90 matches and scored 1807 points, having 25 appearances in the European Championship and scoring 492 points (19.7 avg). In 1967, during the 15th European Basketball Championship in Helsinki he was the top scorer of the competition with 206 points (22.9 m v), receiving the first distinction of a Greek player at international level. In Eurobasket 1969 in Caserta he, one more, was the top scorer with 159 (average 22.7). On 04/05/1971 he retired from the National Team scoring 35 points against Scotland. After his career as an athlete he became a curator and then president of the national teams, a post he held until his death. |
| 2/3/2011 | The Hellenic Motor Museum, owned by the Theodore Charagionis' Foundation and situated in central Athens, on the three top floors of the Athenian Capitol shopping mall, opens to the public. The collection of Theodore Charagionis, which in the 180’s numbered only 25 cars, consists of 300 cars, 111 of which are displayed periodically. Among them, one can see Paul Newman’s Mercedes 300SL Gullwing, Robert Plant’s Chrysler Imperial and Johnny Pesmatzoglou’s Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. |
| 2/3/2003 | Norwegian Roger Albertsen, Olympiacos midfielder from 1982 to 1985, dies of cancer aged 46 |
| 2/3/2000 | 18 year-old european cadet boxer champion Serguei Latushko is gunned down outside Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow |
| 2/3/1999 | Pamesa Valencia smash Panathinaikos' winning record (14/14) by defeating Bandalona 57-50 (15/15) for the Saporta Cup. Nevertheless, the record still stands in Euroleague |
| 2/3/1997 | Canadian Elvis Stojko performs the first quad-triple combination jump in ice skating history at the Ontario Championship Series |
| 2/3/1980 | John McEnroe becomes the youngest tennis player (21 years and 45 days old) to achieve the no 1 ranking |
| 2/3/1962 | Philadelphia beat New York 169-147 at Hershey Park. Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points (36/63 shots and 28/32 free throws). By the end of the season (1961-62) Chamberlain will have scored 4.029 points - 50.3 points per game |
| 2/3/1955 | UEFA’s first congress is held in Vienna |
| 2/3/1951 | First NBA All-Star game, East beats West 111-94 in Boston |
| 2/3/1906 | Deportivo La Coruna FC founded |
| 2/3/1905 | Rodney Heath wins the first Australian Open, in which women are barred from participating |
| 2/3/1887 | First American Trotting Association established in Detroit, USA |
