Changes in society could not have left SEGAS unaffected; every living cell evolves along with the body. With an international orientation, and having a profound understanding of the unifying force of athletics and the contemporary need for the principles of Olympism, SEGAS organises athletic meets in which the presence of well-known athletes lends prestige equal to that of world championships. From its inception, SEGAS has offered the organisational and competitive framework necessary for Greek athletics to develop and has offered opportunities to young people who have in their turn given glory to Greece.

With its many years of experience, SEGAS has successfully sought, undertaken and organised landmark games such as the European Championship of 1982 at the new “Spiros Louis” Olympic Stadium, the European Indoor Championship at the “Peace and Friendship Stadium” in 1985, the European Youth Championship in 1986 in Athens and in 1991 in Thessaloniki, as well as other important athletic meets which account for its activities in the period from 1980 to 2000.

The Karaiskaki Stadium

With pride as well as with a sense of responsibility, SEGAS also numbers among its successes the International Relay Race Cup in Litochoro in 1994, the Classical Marathon of 1995, the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in 1987 and 1991, the International Indoor Championships, the Vardinogianneia, which took place for the first time in 1985 and have now become national Games, the World Tae Kwon Do Championship in 1987, the Bruno Zauli Games and others. The crowning moment in all of these events was the organisation of the 6^th International Track and Field Championship - Athens 97. The faultless organisation and the praise of the international athletic movement established this event as one of the best and it was a criterion in the selection of Athens to host the 2004 Olympic Games.

Finally, the foundation of the International Peace Marathon “Gregoris Lambrakis”, which is run on the classical course (Marathon to the Panathinaikos Stadium) and organised every year by the Greek Track and Field Federation, is a unique combination of traditional sport and a message on the fraternity of peoples.

And on it goes… SEGAS invites all of us to join in its 107 year old efforts. It is SEGAS's efforts which have given us the Balkan Games and the Mediterranean Games and which led the International Olympic Committee to award it with an Olympic Cup in recognition of its efforts, not only in the field of sport, but also in its attempts to spread the Olympic ideal. Naturally this is not the only award SEGA has been granted. Both officials in government and in sport from Greece and abroad have recognised its contributions and work. In its over one hundred years of history, SEGAS has given us Olympic champions, European champions and World champions. It has given us athletes who have broken world records and many others who have played or are playing a leading role in European and international athletics.

SEGAS has continued to inspire us and to offer its services to Athletics, Civilisation and Peace throughout its many years of history and throughout the significant changes that have taken place. It plays a leading role in athletics, looking to the past but aiming at the future. P. Linardos, a journalist and historian of athletics, put it aptly in his speech at SEGAS's 100^th anniversary when he said that the realisation of SEGAS's vision, which is always being renewed and expanded, can include all of us, “…Athletes, clubs, technical experts, the whole range of sport scientists, the State and all lovers of athletics…”.