As the Turkish economy goes into a steep decline with the Turkish lira reaching its lowest ever records to the U.S. Dollar and Euro, and as unemployment hovers just below 25% according…
Tag: Gold
18-year-old Apostolos Papastamos from Chania won the gold medal in the 200 metre individual medley at the 2019 European Junior Swimming Championship, hosted in Kazan, Russia overnight. Dipping under the 2:00 threshold…
Congratulations to Greek athlete Miltos Tentoglou, who won the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, on Sunday. Not only did the twenty-year-old superstar win gold, his jump of 8.38m is the world best performance in…
Greek police arrested the 51-year-old owner of the pawn shop chain “Richardos” and charged him for gold smuggling. The police allege that the suspect was the leading figure in one of two…
Greek police have announced they have arrested 63 people accused of running a major gold smuggling operation, using a network of pawn shops that rapidly expanded during the country’s financial crisis. Police…
Eleni Chatziliadou won gold at the World Karate Championships in Madrid and will be amongst Greece’s top medal contenders for the 2020 Olympics. The 24-year-old from Katerini in Macedonia competed in the…
Greece’s leading gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias has won gold in the men’s rings at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships for the third consecutive time. The 27-year-old, who initially withdrew from the competition due…
Greece’s Aggelos Vasiliou won gold in the World Diathlon – Triathlon Games held in Egypt. On the last day of the Games, the Greek champion, won the gold after a grueling competition…
Sarantoula Pagonaki, a police officer from Orestiada in Thrace, and a mother of four has won gold for Greece at the Pan-European TAEKWONDO Championship for Police and Firefighters, which was recently held in…
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are stepping up their fight against terrorism and crime by approving rules to prevent money laundering as well as tougher checks on cash flows. According to…
According to Professor of Metallurgy of the National Technical University of Athens, Ioannis Paspaliaris, there is €18 billion worth of gold, zinc and lead deposits in Northern Greece ready to be exploited…
Greece’s golden girl in shooting Anna Korakaki is the new women’s Air Pistol World Champion, after winning gold at the 52nd International Shooting Sport Federation World Championship in Changwon, South Korea. Not only…
Katerina Stefanidi won gold for the third year in a row at the Diamond League series in the final of the women’s Pole Vault jump in Zurich and climbed to the top…
More great sporting news for Greece as Maria Kyridou and Christina Bourmou won gold at the World Rowing Youth Championship in the women’s pair final, which took place in Ratchjes, the Czech Republic over…
Greece’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Lefteris Petrounias won his fourth consecutive European gold in gymnastics at the European Championships 2018 in Glasgow. The 27-year-old Olympic athlete and world champion clinched this year’s…
Voula Papachristou has won gold in the triple jump at the 24th European Track and Field Championship, making it Greece’s third over the last few days. The Greek athlete won the gold…
Lefteris Petrounias was crowned the European Champion in the Rings competition for the third straight year, after winning gold at the European Championships in Romania. Eleftherios Petrounias put on another impressive and…
Greece’s gold winning Olympic champion in gymnastics Lefteris Petrounias has made Hellas proud again, taking first place in the rings final at the Gymnastics World Cup AGF Trophy 2017, adding another gold medal…
Katerina Stefanidis has won GOLD again! The Greek athlete finished first in the Women’s Pole Vault event at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade. With her jump at 4.85 meters, Katerina…
Greece’s Thanasis Konstantinidis broke three world records to win the gold medal in the F32 shot put final on the first day of the Rio Paralympics, and was joined on the winners…