| 9/2/2025 | Grant Fisher breaks the Indoor 3,000m world record at the 2025 Millrose Games with 7:22.91. The previous world record of 7:23.81 belonged to Lamecha Girma (ETH) since 2023. |
| 9/2/2025 | Froso Douka, the 16-year-old athlete of Diagoras Evia coached by Vangelis Dimos, wins the gold medal, defeating the Ukrainian D. Dudka in the final of the European Karate U-21 Championship (61+ kg) held in the city of Bielsko-Biala, Poland |
| 9/2/2023 | Saša Zibulovic dies of a heart attack at the age of 51. He contributed for many years to Greek handball, as he was an international player with the national men's handball team, with which he won the sixth place at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 and the World Cup in Tunisia in 2005, while a few days ago he led - as a coach - Nea Ionia in winning the Women's Cup. |
| 9/2/2013 | The last sheet of "DERBY News" is published, ceasing the publication of the sports newspaper after 12 years |
| 9/2/1998 | German Georg Hackl wins his third olympic gold at the Nagano Winter Olympics |
| 9/2/1997 | Scotty Bowman becomes the first NHL coach to complete 1.000 wins |
| 9/2/1996 | Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey smashes the 50m indoors record with 5.56 |
| 9/2/1995 | Russian sprinter Irina Privalova sets new world records in 50 and 60m indoors races with 5.92 and 6.92 respectively in Madrid |
| 9/2/1992 | Magic Johnson's come back to NBA action. The West beats the East and Johnson is voted MVP |
| 9/2/1964 | 21-year-old Arthur Ashe, one of the best tennis players of all time, becomes the first black on US Davis Cup tennis team |
| 9/2/1923 | Aeroflot is founded, two years after the 1921 revolution in Russia, and five months later, on July 15, 1923, it will commence operations. The company will use a “Winged Hammer and Sickle” as a logo, which will remain after the dissolution of the USSR and the company will be considered the de facto national airline of Russia. |
| 9/2/1900 | Dwight Davis comes up with a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup |
| 9/2/1895 | First intercollegiate basketball game. Minnesota State School of Agriculture beat Hamilton College 9-3 |
| 9/2/1895 | William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education instructor in Massachusetts and friend of James Naismith, invents volleyball, originally known as mintonette |
| 9/2/1857 | Dionisios Solomos, the Greek poet who, in 1823, completed the national anthem, dies |
| 9/2/1540 | First recorded horse race in England (Chester's Roodee) |
