View source for 2000

== Events ==
===January===
*[[January 22]]: [[Calliope Ouzouni]] becomes the first Greek female [[shot put]] athlete to throw the shot beyond 19m (19.03m) improving her own record (18.12m on [[January 26]], [[1997]])
*[[January 29]]:  [[Marina Varsamidou]] smashes [[Christina Panagou]]'s 13 year old 400m indoors record with 53.54

===February===
*[[February 7]]:  The daily sports journal "Filathlos" (Φίλαθλος) is first published with [[Yiannis Tragas]] as the editor.
===March===
*[[March 3]]: Olympiakos face Ethnikos at the Greek water polo cup final for the first time in 44 years. Ethnikos win 12-11 in overtime

===May===
*[[May 7]]:  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.
*[[May 10]]: [[Ionikos FC|Ionikos]] play for the first time in a [[Greek Football Cup|Greek Cup final]]. They lose to [[AEK FC|AEK]] 3-0
*[[May 17]]: Stephen Saunders, the British defense attache is murdered by the [[Revolutionary Organisation 17 November]] while stopped in traffic in [[Filothei]].
===July===
*[[July 17]]:  [[Nikos Boudouris]], the first Greek basketball player to have won all 3 European titles, signs with [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] becoming the third player of [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] (alongside with Radja and Economou) to join Olympiakos.
===August===
*[[August 3]]: The Mistral World Juniors Championships close at Korthi, Andros. Byron Kokkalakis wins 2 gold medals. Alexis Prappas takes third place. In the veterans' category (over 40 years old) Thanos Sakkas wins the gold medal.
===September===
*[[September 23]]: [[Pyrros Dimas]] wins gold in weightlifting at the Sydney Olympiad. It is the third consecutive Olympiad that Dimas wins gold, a feat accomplished previously only by Naim Suleimanoglu.
*[[September 26]]: Passenger ship "Express Samina" sinks off the coast of [[Paros]]. 80 persons are drowned.

===October===
*[[October 16]]: The new Euroleague Championship kicks off as Real Madrid defeat [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] 75-73 in its inaugural game.

=== December ===
*[[December 14]]:  [[Dimitris Avramopoulos]], mayor of [[Athens]], announces the forming of the [[Movement of Free Citizens]] (Greek: Κίνημα Ελευθέρων Πολιτών, ΚΕΠ), also known by its acronym KEP.

== Deaths ==
===February===
*[[February 8]]: [[Giorgos Kamaras]], football player
===March===
*[[March 6]]: [[John Colicos]], [[Greek-Canadian]] actor.

===July===
*[[July 10]]: [[Michalis Maramis]], discus champion and one of the leading Greek athletes in the [[1960s|60s]], dies of cancer
===November===
*[[November 10]]: [[Adamantios Androutsopoulos]], politician

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