Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Host stadium (shown in 2023)
Dates	22 September-1 October 2000
No. of events	46
Competitors	2,134 from 193 nations
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At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, 46 events in athletics were contested, 24 for men and 22 for women. There were a total number of 2,134 participating athletes from 193 countries.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	7	4	5	16
2	Ethiopia  (ETH)	4	1	3	8
3	Poland  (POL)	4	0	0	4
4	Russia  (RUS)	3	4	6	13
5	Kenya  (KEN)	2	3	2	7
6	Cuba  (CUB)	2	2	2	6
	Great Britain  (GBR)	2	2	2	6
8	Germany  (GER)	2	1	2	5
9	Belarus  (BLR)	2	0	3	5
10	Bahamas  (BAH)	2	0	1	3
11	Greece  (GRE)	1	3	0	4
12	Romania  (ROU)	1	2	2	5
13	Australia  (AUS)	1	2	0	3
14	Algeria  (ALG)	1	1	2	4
15	Czech Republic  (CZE)	1	1	0	2
	Nigeria  (NGR)	1	1	0	2
	Norway  (NOR)	1	1	0	2
18	Bulgaria  (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	China  (CHN)	1	0	0	1
	Estonia  (EST)	1	0	0	1
	Finland  (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	Japan  (JPN)	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania  (LTU)	1	0	0	1
	Mozambique  (MOZ)	1	0	0	1
26	Jamaica  (JAM)	0	6	3	9
27	Italy  (ITA)	0	2	0	2
28	Morocco  (MAR)	0	1	3	4
29	South Africa  (RSA)	0	1	2	3
30	Mexico  (MEX)	0	1	1	2
	Trinidad and Tobago  (TRI)	0	1	1	2
32	Austria  (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Brazil  (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark  (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Ireland  (IRL)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia  (LAT)	0	1	0	1
	Saudi Arabia  (KSA)	0	1	0	1
	Sri Lanka  (SRI)	0	1	0	1
39	Ukraine  (UKR)	0	0	2	2
40	Barbados  (BAR)	0	0	1	1
	Iceland  (ISL)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal  (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Spain  (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (44 entries)		45	47	47	139

Participating nations

A total of 193 nations participated in the different athletics events at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Two athletes from East Timor participated as individual Olympic athletes . A total of 2135 athletes competed at the competition.

•   Albania  (3 athletes)
•   Algeria  (21)
•   American Samoa  (2)
•   Andorra  (2)
•   Angola  (2)
•   Antigua and Barbuda  (2)
•   Argentina  (11)
•   Armenia  (3)
•   Aruba  (2)
•   Australia  (82)
•   Austria  (12)
•   Azerbaijan  (4)
•   Bahamas  (19)
•   Bahrain  (2)
•   Bangladesh  (2)
•   Barbados  (11)
•   Belarus  (31)
•   Belgium  (9)
•   Belize  (2)
•   Benin  (2)
•   Bermuda  (1)
•   Bolivia  (2)
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina  (4)
•   Botswana  (6)
•   Brazil  (18)
•   British Virgin Islands  (1)
•   Brunei  (1)
•   Bulgaria  (22)
•   Burkina Faso  (2)
•   Burundi  (6)
•   Cambodia  (2)
•   Cameroon  (11)
•   Canada  (36)
•   Cape Verde  (2)
•   Cayman Islands  (2)
•   Central African Republic  (2)
•   Chad  (2)
•   Chile  (7)
•   China  (26)
•   Chinese Taipei  (2)
•   Colombia  (11)
•   Comoros  (2)
•   Republic of the Congo  (2)
•   Cook Islands  (1)
•   Costa Rica  (1)
•   Ivory Coast  (8)
•   Croatia  (15)
•   Cuba  (33)
•   Cyprus  (10)
•   Czech Republic  (24)
•   Denmark  (4)
•   Democratic Republic of the Congo  (2)
•   Djibouti  (2)
•   Dominica  (2)
•   Dominican Republic  (2)
•   Ecuador  (3)
•   Egypt  (2)
•   El Salvador  (2)
•   Equatorial Guinea  (2)
•   Eritrea  (3)
•   Estonia  (5)
•   Ethiopia  (24)
•   Fiji  (1)
•   Finland  (23)
•   France  (53)
•   Gabon  (2)
•   The Gambia  (2)
•   Georgia  (2)
•   Germany  (64)
•   Ghana  (18)
•   Great Britain  (72)
•   Greece  (43)
•   Grenada  (2)
•   Guam  (2)
•   Guatemala  (7)
•   Guinea  (2)
•   Guinea-Bissau  (2)
•   Guyana  (4)
•   Haiti  (3)
•   Honduras  (1)
•   Hong Kong  (5)
•   Hungary  (37)
•   Iceland  (6)
•   India  (24)
•   Individual Olympic Athletes  (2)
•   Indonesia  (5)
•   Iran  (1)
•   Iraq  (2)
•   Ireland  (32)
•   Israel  (8)
•   Italy  (47)
•   Jamaica  (43)
•   Japan  (40)
•   Jordan  (2)
•   Kazakhstan  (25)
•   Kenya  (36)
•   Kuwait  (4)
•   Kyrgyzstan  (8)
•   Laos  (2)
•   Latvia  (17)
•   Lebanon  (2)
•   Lesotho  (2)
•   Liberia  (8)
•   Libya  (1)
•   Lithuania  (18)
•   Macedonia  (2)
•   Madagascar  (7)
•   Malaysia  (2)
•   Malawi  (2)
•   Maldives  (2)
•   Mali  (2)
•   Malta  (2)
•   Mauritania  (2)
•   Mauritius  (6)
•   Mexico  (22)
•   Federated States of Micronesia  (2)
•   Moldova  (11)
•   Mongolia  (2)
•   Morocco  (24)
•   Mozambique  (2)
•   Myanmar  (2)
•   Namibia  (6)
•   Nepal  (2)
•   Netherlands  (9)
•   Netherlands Antilles  (2)
•   Nicaragua  (1)
•   Niger  (2)
•   Nigeria  (28)
•   New Zealand  (8)
•   North Korea  (6)
•   Norway  (12)
•   Oman  (4)
•   Pakistan  (2)
•   Palau  (2)
•   Palestine  (1)
•   Panama  (1)
•   Papua New Guinea  (2)
•   Paraguay  (2)
•   Peru  (2)
•   Philippines  (2)
•   Poland  (35)
•   Portugal  (21)
•   Puerto Rico  (8)
•   Qatar  (12)
•   Romania  (23)
•   Russia  (109)
•   Rwanda  (3)
•   Saint Kitts and Nevis  (2)
•   Saint Lucia  (3)
•   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  (2)
•   San Marino  (1)
•   São Tomé and Príncipe  (2)
•   Saudi Arabia  (11)
•   Senegal  (9)
•   Seychelles  (2)
•   Sierra Leone  (2)
•   Slovakia  (16)
•   Slovenia  (19)
•   Solomon Islands  (2)
•   Somalia  (2)
•   South Africa  (23)
•   South Korea  (13)
•   Spain  (58)
•   Sri Lanka  (13)
•   Sudan  (2)
•   Suriname  (2)
•   Swaziland  (2)
•   Sweden  (14)
•   Switzerland  (13)
•   Syria  (3)
•   Tajikistan  (2)
•   Tanzania  (4)
•   Thailand  (12)
•   Trinidad and Tobago  (15)
•   Togo  (2)
•   Tonga  (2)
•   Tunisia  (9)
•   Turkey  (5)
•   Turkmenistan  (2)
•   Uganda  (5)
•   Ukraine  (54)
•   United Arab Emirates  (1)
•   United States  (116)
•   Uruguay  (4)
•   Uzbekistan  (22)
•   Vanuatu  (2)
•   Venezuela  (6)
•   Vietnam  (2)
•   Virgin Islands  (3)
•   Yemen  (2)
•   FR Yugoslavia  (24)
•   Zambia  (4)
•   Zimbabwe  (8)

Medal summary

Men

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Maurice Greene   United States	9.87	Ato Boldon   Trinidad and Tobago	9.99	Obadele Thompson   Barbados	10.04
200 metres details	Konstantinos Kenteris   Greece	20.09	Darren Campbell   Great Britain	20.14	Ato Boldon   Trinidad and Tobago	20.20
400 metres details	Michael Johnson   United States	43.84	Alvin Harrison   United States	44.40	Greg Haughton   Jamaica	44.70
800 metres details	Nils Schumann   Germany	1:45.08	Wilson Kipketer   Denmark	1:45.14	Djabir Saïd-Guerni   Algeria	1:45.16
1500 metres details	Noah Ngeny   Kenya	3:32.07 (OR)	Hicham El Guerrouj   Morocco	3:32.32	Bernard Lagat   Kenya	3:32.44
5000 metres details	Million Wolde   Ethiopia	13:35.49	Ali Saïdi-Sief   Algeria	13:36.20	Brahim Lahlafi   Morocco	13:36.47
10,000 metres details	Haile Gebrselassie   Ethiopia	27:18.20	Paul Tergat   Kenya	27:18.29	Assefa Mezgebu   Ethiopia	27:19.75
110 metres hurdles details	Anier García   Cuba	13.00	Terrence Trammell   United States	13.16	Mark Crear   United States	13.22
400 metres hurdles details	Angelo Taylor   United States	47.50	Hadi Al-Somaily   Saudi Arabia	47.53	Llewellyn Herbert   South Africa	47.81
3000 metres steeplechase details	Reuben Kosgei   Kenya	8:21.43	Wilson Boit Kipketer   Kenya	8:21.77	Ali Ezzine   Morocco	8:22.15
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Jon Drummond Bernard Williams Brian Lewis Maurice Greene Tim Montgomery* Kenneth Brokenburr*	37.61	Brazil  (BRA) Vicente Lenilson Édson Ribeiro André da Silva Claudinei Quirino Cláudio Souza*	37.90	Cuba  (CUB) Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda Ivan García Freddy Mayola José Ángel César	38.04
4 × 400 metres relay details	Nigeria  (NGR) Clement Chukwu Jude Monye Sunday Bada Enefiok Udo-Obong Nduka Awazie* Fidelis Gadzama* [1]	2:58.68	Jamaica  (JAM) Michael Blackwood Greg Haughton Christopher Williams Danny McFarlane Sanjay Ayre* Michael McDonald*	2:58.78	Bahamas  (BAH) Avard Moncur Troy McIntosh Carl Oliver Chris Brown Timothy Munnings*	2:59.23
Marathon details	Gezahegne Abera   Ethiopia	2:10:11	Erick Wainaina   Kenya	2:10:31	Tesfaye Tola   Ethiopia	2:11:10
20 kilometres walk details	Robert Korzeniowski   Poland	1:18:59 (OR)	Noé Hernández   Mexico	1:19:03	Vladimir Andreyev   Russia	1:19:27
50 kilometres walk details	Robert Korzeniowski   Poland	3:42:22	Aigars Fadejevs   Latvia	3:43:40	Joel Sánchez Guerrero   Mexico	3:44:36
High jump details	Sergey Klyugin   Russia	2.35 m	Javier Sotomayor   Cuba	2.32 m	Abderrahmane Hammad   Algeria	2.32 m
Pole vault details	Nick Hysong   United States	5.90 m	Lawrence Johnson   United States	5.90 m	Maksim Tarasov   Russia	5.90 m
Long jump details	Iván Pedroso   Cuba	8.55 m	Jai Taurima   Australia	8.49 m	Roman Shchurenko   Ukraine	8.31 m
Triple jump details	Jonathan Edwards   Great Britain	17.71 m	Yoel García   Cuba	17.47 m	Denis Kapustin   Russia	17.46 m
Shot put details	Arsi Harju   Finland	21.29 m	Adam Nelson   United States	21.21 m	John Godina   United States	21.20 m
Discus throw details	Virgilijus Alekna   Lithuania	69.30 m	Lars Riedel   Germany	68.50 m	Frantz Kruger   South Africa	68.19 m
Hammer throw details	Szymon Ziółkowski   Poland	80.02 m	Nicola Vizzoni   Italy	79.64 m	Igor Astapkovich   Belarus	79.17 m
Javelin throw details	Jan Železný   Czech Republic	90.17 m (OR)	Steve Backley   Great Britain	89.85 m	Sergey Makarov   Russia	88.67 m
Decathlon details	Erki Nool   Estonia	8642	Roman Šebrle   Czech Republic	8606	Chris Huffins   United States	8595

* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Not awarded [2]		Ekaterini Thanou   Greece	11.12	Merlene Ottey   Jamaica	11.19
			Tayna Lawrence   Jamaica	11.18
200 metres details	Pauline Davis-Thompson [2]   Bahamas	22.27	Susanthika Jayasinghe   Sri Lanka	22.28 (NR)	Beverly McDonald   Jamaica	22.35
400 metres details	Cathy Freeman   Australia	49.11	Lorraine Graham   Jamaica	49.58	Katharine Merry   Great Britain	49.72
800 metres details	Maria de Lurdes Mutola   Mozambique	1:56.15	Stephanie Graf   Austria	1:56.64	Kelly Holmes   Great Britain	1:56.80
1500 metres details	Nouria Mérah-Benida   Algeria	4:05.10	Violeta Beclea   Romania	4:05.15	Gabriela Szabo   Romania	4:05.27
5000 metres details	Gabriela Szabo   Romania	14:40.79 (OR)	Sonia O'Sullivan   Ireland	14:41.02 (NR)	Gete Wami   Ethiopia	14:42.23
10,000 metres details	Derartu Tulu   Ethiopia	30:17.49 (OR)	Gete Wami   Ethiopia	30:22.48	Fernanda Ribeiro   Portugal	30:22.88 (NR)
100 metres hurdles details	Olga Shishigina   Kazakhstan	12.65	Glory Alozie   Nigeria	12.68	Melissa Morrison   United States	12.76
400 metres hurdles details	Irina Privalova   Russia	53.02	Deon Hemmings   Jamaica	53.45	Nezha Bidouane   Morocco	53.57
4 × 100 metres relay details	Bahamas  (BAH) Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Pauline Davis-Thompson Debbie Ferguson Eldece Lewis*	41.95	Jamaica  (JAM) Tayna Lawrence Veronica Campbell Beverly McDonald Merlene Ottey Merlene Frazer*	42.13	United States  (USA) Chryste Gaines Torri Edwards Nanceen Perry Passion Richardson* [3]	42.20
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Jearl Miles Clark Monique Hennagan LaTasha Colander Andrea Anderson* [3]	3:22.62	Jamaica  (JAM) Sandie Richards Catherine Scott Deon Hemmings Lorraine Graham Charmaine Howell* Michelle Burgher*	3:23.25	Russia  (RUS) Yuliya Sotnikova Svetlana Goncharenko Olga Kotlyarova Irina Privalova Natalya Nazarova* Olesya Zykina*	3:23.46
Marathon details	Naoko Takahashi   Japan	2:23:14 (OR)	Lidia Șimon   Romania	2:23:22	Joyce Chepchumba   Kenya	2:24:45
20 kilometres walk details	Wang Liping   China	1:29:05 (OR)	Kjersti Plätzer   Norway	1:29:33	María Vasco   Spain	1:30:23
High jump details	Yelena Yelesina   Russia	2.01 m	Hestrie Cloete   South Africa	2.01 m	Kajsa Bergqvist   Sweden	1.99 m
					Oana Pantelimon [4]   Romania
Pole vault details	Stacy Dragila   United States	4.60 m (OR)	Tatiana Grigorieva   Australia	4.55 m	Vala Flosadóttir   Iceland	4.50 m
Long jump details	Heike Drechsler   Germany	6.99 m	Fiona May   Italy	6.92 m	Tatyana Kotova   Russia	6.83 m
Triple jump details	Tereza Marinova   Bulgaria	15.20 m	Tatyana Lebedeva   Russia	15.00 m	Olena Hovorova   Ukraine	14.96 m
Shot put details	Yanina Karolchik   Belarus	20.56 m	Larisa Peleshenko   Russia	19.92 m	Astrid Kumbernuss   Germany	19.62 m
Discus throw details	Ellina Zvereva   Belarus	68.40 m	Anastasía Kelesídou   Greece	65.71 m	Iryna Yatchenko   Belarus	65.20 m
Hammer throw details	Kamila Skolimowska   Poland	71.16 m	Olga Kuzenkova   Russia	69.77 m	Kirsten Münchow   Germany	69.28 m
Javelin throw details	Trine Hattestad   Norway	68.91 m (OR)	Mirela Maniani-Tzelili   Greece	67.51 m	Osleidys Menéndez   Cuba	66.18 m
Heptathlon details	Denise Lewis   Great Britain	6584	Yelena Prokhorova   Russia	6531	Natallia Sazanovich   Belarus	6527

* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.

See also

• Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Qualification
• Athletics at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
• 2000 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. The International Olympic Committee formally stripped the US team of their gold medals following the admission of Antonio Pettigrew that he had been using performance-enhancing drugs while competing in Sydney (he voluntarily returned his medal earlier).
2. 1 2 Marion Jones of the United States admitted in 2007 to having taken performance enhancing steroids prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics. She relinquished her medals to the United States Olympic Committee, and the International Olympic Committee formally stripped her of her medals. Her medals were re-awarded as follows...

   100 metres

   1. not awarded
   2. Ekaterini Thanou 11.12 and Tayna Lawrence 11.18
   3. Merlene Ottey 11.19
   The IOC did not initially decide to regrade the results, as silver medalist Ekaterini Thanou had herself been subsequently involved in a doping scandal in the run-up to the 2004 Summer Olympics. After two years of deliberation, in late 2009 the IOC decided to upgrade Lawrence and Ottey to silver and bronze respectively, and leave Thanou as a silver medallist, with the gold medal withheld.

   200 metres

   1. Pauline Davis-Thompson 22.27
   2. Susanthika Jayasinghe 22.28
   3. Beverly McDonald 22.35
   All three athletes were upgraded from their original medal position.

   Long jump

   1. Heike Drechsler
   2. Fiona May
   3. Tatyana Kotova 6.83
   Kotova, the original fourth-place finisher, was upgraded to the bronze medal. She was later found guilty of doping, but her results were left unaffected.
3. The IAAF recommended to the IOC Executive Board to disqualify the USA women's 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m relay teams after Marion Jones admitted to having taken performance enhancing drugs prior to the Games. The IOC disqualified both U.S. relay teams and asked for Jones' teammates' medals to be returned. France (Linda Ferga, Muriel Hurtis, Fabe Dia, Christine Arron, Sandra Citte*) finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m relay in a time of 42.42, and Nigeria (Olabisi Afolabi, Opara Charity, Rosemary Okafor, Falilat Ogunkoya-Osheku, Doris Jacob*) finished fourth in the 4 × 400 m relay in a time of 3:23.80. All members of the U.S. relay teams except Nanceen Perry (and Marion Jones) then appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport who ruled in favor of them due to the fact that, according to the rules at the time, a team should not be disqualified because of a doping offense of one athlete. Their medals were then restored to them.
4. The IOC report (page 447 of 548) incorrectly states that Pantelimon finished fourth, despite having an identical jumping record.

External links

• Athletics Australia
• IAAF