Greek synchronized swimming team wins the gold medal at the “Highlight” Final during the LEN European Champions Cup that takes place in Cuneo, Italy with 85,900 points. Italy ranks second (84,5667) and the Czech Republic third (75,5333).
7/5/2014
French second-tier outfit Clermont Foot have announced that 36-year-old Portuguese manager Helena Costa will take over next season. Costa will become the first female coach of a French professional club. Helena Costa came through the ranks at Benfica before taking charge of the women’s teams at Odivelas, then the national teams of Qatar and Iran, in addition to working as a scout for Celtic.
7/5/2006
One of the greatest athletes of Greco-roman wrestling and wrestling, Dimitris Karistinos, dies at the ages of 74. Karistinos was an athlete of Iraklis Piraeus during the 1950 decade and in the 1960s he moved to wrestling
7/5/2000
Greece ranks third at the European Tae Kwon Do championships in Patra, behind Turkey and Spain. Michalis Mouroutsos (58kgr), Giorgos Ionas (67kgr) and Elli Mystakidou (72kgr) win the gold medal, while Morfo Drossidou (67kgr), Kalliopi Papaioannou (63kgr) and Michalis Kotsopoulos (84kgr) the bronze
7/5/1998
IAAF announces that women’s pole vault and hammer will be included in the 1999 World Championships and the 2000 Olympics
7/5/1989
Ayrton Senna begins his winning streak in Monaco Grand Prix. On May 23, 1993 he becomes the first pilot to complete 5 consecutive wins in Monaco Grand Prix
7/5/1987
The first European Girls Rhythmics Championships are held in a fully-packed Peace and Friendship Stadium in Athens. It is the first time Greece holds a major-scale event in rythmics
7/5/1986
Steaua Bucarest are crowned European champions after defeating Barcelona 2-0 on penalty kicks (0-0) in Sevilla. Steaua goalkeeper Ducadam was the key to the romanian victory (saved all 4 penalties!)
7/5/1961
Abebe Bikila, gold Olympic winner in 1960 and later in 1964, runs barefoot the classical Marathon race in 2:23:44.6. Journalist Andreas Paouris will write in “The Sports” magazine that over than 100 thousand people attended the race to watch the Marathon runner from Ethiopia.
7/5/1904
British Chess Federation founded, with A. Naumann as president
7/5/1895
Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov presents his first radio receiver to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society
