Egypt at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Egypt at the
2000 Summer Olympics
Egypt at the; 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	EGY
NOC	Egyptian Olympic Committee
Website	www.egyptianolympic.org (in Arabic and English)
in Sydney
Competitors	89 (74 men and 15 women) in 20 sports
Flag bearer	Yahia Rashwan
Medals	Gold0Silver0Bronze0Total0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1912 ; 1920 ; 1924 ; 1928 ; 1932; 1936 ; 1948 ; 1952 ; 1956 ; 1960–1964; 1968 ; 1972 ; 1976 ; 1980; 1984 ; 1988 ; 1992 ; 1996 ; 2000 ; 2004 ; 2008 ; 2012 ; 2016 ; 2020 ; 2024 ;
Other related appearances
	1906 Intercalated Games –––– United Arab Republic (1960, 1964)

Last updated October 09, 2025

Egypt competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 89 competitors, 74 men and 15 women, took part in 64 events in 20 sports.^[2] Egyptian competitors did not win any medal at the Sydney Olympics.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[3]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	1	0	1
Athletics	2	0	2
Boxing	7	–	7
Cycling	4	0	4
Equestrian	1	0	1
Fencing	3	2	5
Gymnastics	1	1	2
Handball	15	0	15
Judo	3	1	4
Modern pentathlon	1	0	1
Rowing	7	0	7
Shooting	5	3	8
Swimming	5	1	6
Synchronized swimming	–	2	2
Table tennis	2	3	5
Taekwondo	2	1	3
Volleyball	12	0	12
Weightlifting	1	1	2
Wrestling	2	0	2
Total	74	15	89

Archery

In Egypt's debut archery competition, the nation entered only one man. He lost his first match.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Essam Sayed	Men's individual	556	60	Zabrodsky (KAZ) L 149–166	did not advance

Athletics

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Men
Track and road events

Athletes	Events	Heat Round 1		Heat Round 2		Semifinal		Final
Athletes	Events	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ahmed Abdel Mougod Soliman	Marathon	—	2:22:47	47

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Hatem Mersal	Long jump	7.59	33	did not advance

Boxing

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Rezkalla Mohamed Abdelrehim	Light flyweight	Asloum (FRA) L 3–12	did not advance
Saleh Khoulef	Light welterweight	Bye	Senchenko (UKR) W 19–16	Luna (CUB) L RSC-R2	did not advance
Fadel Showban	Welterweight	Craig (USA) L RSC-R4	did not advance
Mohamed Hikal	Light middleweight	Bye	Song (KOR) W 16–5	Thongburan (THA) L 9-15	did not advance
Ramadan Yasser	Middleweight	Im (KOR) L 7–8	did not advance
Amrou Moustafa	Heavyweight	—	Chanturia (GEO) L RSC-R4	did not advance
Ahmed Abdel Samad	Super heavyweight	—	Saidov (UZB) L 8-21	did not advance

Cycling

Road Cycling

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Mahmoud Abbas	Men's road race	did not finish
Amr Elnady		did not finish
Mohamed Abdel Fattah		did not finish
Mohamed Khulify		did not finish
Amr Elnady	Men's time trial	1:03:18.138	36

Equestrianism

Jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification								Final				Total
			Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Round A		Round B		Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
André Salah Sakakini	Careful 23	Individual	8.50	23	8.00	16.50	24	8.00	24.50	26	did not advance

Fencing

Five fencers, three men and two women, represented Egypt in 2000.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Tamer Mohamed Tahoun	Men's foil	Plumenail (FRA) L 9–15	did not advance
Muhannad Saif El-Din	Men's épée	Zhao (CHN) L 12–15	did not advance
Mahmoud Samir	Men's sabre	Smart (USA) L 5–15	did not advance
Shaimaa El-Gammal	Women's foil	Marsh (USA) L 7–15	did not advance
May Moustafa	Women's épée	Li (CHN) L 5–15	did not advance

Gymnastics

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank	F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank
Raouf Abdelraouf	All-around	—	8.300	9.100	9.462	8.350	—	35.212	80	did not advance

Handball

Summary

Key:

ET – After extra time
P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group Stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Egypt men's	Men's tournament	Russia L 21–22	FR Yugoslavia L 22–25	Cuba W 29–26	South Korea W 28–21	Germany W 22–21	4 Q	Sweden L 23–27	Germany L 18–24	Slovenia W 34–28	7

The following players represented Egypt:^[4]

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	5	4	0	1	129	121	+8	8	Quarterfinals
2	Germany	5	3	1	1	128	113	+15	7
3	Yugoslavia	5	3	0	2	130	127	+3	6^[a]
4	Egypt	5	3	0	2	122	115	+7	6^[a]
5	South Korea	5	1	1	3	128	131	−3	3	9th place game
6	Cuba	5	0	0	5	128	158	−30	0	11th place game

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
Notes:

1 2 Yugoslavia 25–22 Egypt

16 September 2000 19:30	Russia	22–21	Egypt	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Kohout, Dolejš (CZE)
	Koksharov 7	(15–7)	Awaad 6
	3× 4×		3× 2×

18 September 2000 14:30	Egypt	22–25	Yugoslavia	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Gallego, Lamas (ESP)
	Moemen 9	(14–11)	Škrbić 6
	2× 1×		4× 7×

20 September 2000 14:30	Egypt	29–26	Cuba	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Klucsó, Lekrinszki (HUN)
	Zaky 8	(12–11)	Uríos 8
	3× 3×		2× 4×

22 September 2000 09:30	South Korea	21–28	Egypt	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Øie, Hogsnes (NOR)
	Paek, Yoon K-s. 7	(8–15)	Awaad, Zaky 6
	3× 2×		3× 2×

24 September 2000 16:30	Germany	21–22	Egypt	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Hansson, Olsson (SWE)
	Kehrmann, Von Behren 5	(11–8)	Al-Nil 5
	3× 2×		3× 6× 1×

Quarterfinal

26 September 2000 21:30	Sweden	27–23	Egypt	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Litvinov, Khudoerko (RUS)
	Vranjes 7	(14–12)	Zaky 10
	3× 3×		3× 8×

5th-8th place classification match

29 September 2000 11:30	Germany	24–18	Egypt	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Øie, Hogsnes (NOR)
	Baur, Kehrmann 6	(10–9)	Hussein 6
	2× 4× 1×		2× 5× 1×

7th place match

30 September 2000 14:30	Slovenia	28–34	Egypt	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Bojsen, Anusic (USA)
	Pungartnik 11	(12–18)	three players 7
	2× 3×		2× 2×

Judo

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Haitham Awad	73kg	Lombard (CUB) L	did not advance
Bassel El-Gharbawy	100kg	Song (CHN) W	Soares (POR) L	did not advance
Ahmed Baly	+100kg	Bye	Pérez (ESP) L	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Heba Hefny	+78kg	—	Köppen (GER) L	did not advance		Prokofyeva (UKR) W	Cicot (FRA) L	did not advance

Modern pentathlon

Athlete	Event	Shooting (10 m air pistol)			Fencing (épée one touch)			Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Riding (show jumping)			Running (3000 m)			Total points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	MP Points	Results	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP Points	Total points	Final rank
Emad El-Geziry	Men's	165	23	916	9	19	720	2:08.61	12	1214	223	19	877	9:32.41	10	1112	4839	19

Rhythmic gymnastics

Individual all-around

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
Athlete	Event	Rope	Hoop	Ball	Ribbon	Total	Rank	Rope	Hoop	Ball	Ribbon	Total	Rank
Sherin Taama	Individual	9.241	9.250	9.170	9.141	36.802	24	did not advance

Rowing

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ali Ibrahim	Single sculls	7:21.32	4 R	7:13.10	3 SF C/D	7:17.06	1 FC	7:01.44	13
Amir Temraz Alaa El-Din Ahmed	Coxless pair	7:15.63	5 R	7:07.35	5	did not advance			15
Hamdy El-Kot El-Atek Mohamed Tarek Hamid Kamal Abdel Rehim	Coxless four	6:21.10	4 R	6:13.73	3 SF A/B	6:21.22	6 FB	6:08.37	12

Shooting

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Total	Rank
Mohamed Abdullah	10m air rifle	590	11	did not advance
Moustafa Hamdy	Skeet	118	32	did not advance
Mohamed Khorshed	Skeet	119	23	did not advance
Ayman Mazhar	Double trap	125	20	did not advance
Tarek Riad	10m air pistol	571	27	did not advance
Tarek Riad	50m pistol	544	31	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Total	Rank
Hebatallah El-Wazan	10m air pistol	379	16	did not advance
Yasmine Helmi	10m air rifle	390	28	did not advance
Marwa Sultan	10m air rifle	376	49	did not advance

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tamer Hamed	50m freestyle	23.77	46	did not advance
Tamer Hamed	100m freestyle	52.14	44	did not advance
Mahmoud Elwany	200m freestyle	1:55.19	46	did not advance
Hani Elteir	400m freestyle	4:04.23	44	—	did not advance
Haitham Hassan	100m backstroke	58.67	44	did not advance
Ahmed Hussein	200m backstroke	2:06.10	36	did not advance
Haitham Hassan	100m butterfly	56.42	53	did not advance
Haitham Hassan	200m individual medley	2:09.92	51	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rania Elwani	50m freestyle	25.87	15 Q	25.95	15	did not advance
	100m freestyle	56.31	15 Q	55.85	11	did not advance
	200m freestyle	2:01.93	21	did not advance

Synchronized swimming

Women's Duet

Heba Abdel Gawad and Sara Abdel Gawad
1. Technical Routine – 29.727

Athlete	Event	Technical routine		Free routine (preliminary)				Free routine (final)		Total
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Heba Abdel Gawad Sara Abdel Gawad	Duet	29.727	21	55.924	19	85.021	20	did not advance

Table Tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification round	Group stage			Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ashraf Helmy	Singles	—	Roßkopf (GER) L 0–3	Zhuang (USA) L 1–3	3	did not advance
El-Sayed Lashin	Singles	—	Suseno (INA) W 3–0	Kreanga (GRE) L 0–3	2	did not advance
Ashraf Helmy El-Sayed Lashin	Doubles	Sweeris / Zhuang (USA) L 1–2	did not advance			—	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification round	Group stage			Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Shaimaa Abdul Aziz	Singles	—	Melnik (RUS) L 0–3	Wong (HKG) L 0–3	3	did not advance
Shahira El-Alfy	Singles	—	Pavlovich (BLR) L 0–3	Svensson (SWE) L 0–3	2	did not advance
Shaimaa Abdul Aziz Bacinte Osman	Doubles	Ramírez / Suárez (CUB) W 2–0	Kostromina / Pavlovich (BLR) L 0–2	Å Svensson / M Svensson (SWE) L 0–2	3	—	did not advance

Taekwondo

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage Quarterfinals	Repechage Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Talaat Abada	Men's −58 kg	Mouroutsos (GRE) L 0–5	did not advance		Huang (TPE) L 2–7	did not advance
Yahia Rashwan	Men's +80 kg	Gentil (FRA) L 1–4	did not advance
Shimaa Afifi	Women's −57 kg	Athanasopoulou (GRE) L 7–7	did not advance

Volleyball

Indoor

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
United States men	Men's tournament	Spain L 0–3	Brazil L 0–3	Cuba L 0–3	Netherlands L 1–3	Australia L 0–3	6	did not advance

Men

Team Roster

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Brazil	5	5	0	10	15	1	15.000	415	331	1.254	Quarterfinals
2	Netherlands	5	4	1	9	12	5	2.400	417	360	1.158
3	Cuba	5	3	2	8	9	7	1.286	383	335	1.143
4	Australia	5	2	3	7	6	10	0.600	327	374	0.874
5	Spain	5	1	4	6	7	12	0.583	404	444	0.910
6	Egypt	5	0	5	5	1	15	0.067	309	411	0.752

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Date	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Total
17 Sep	SP4	Spain	3–0	Egypt	25–20	25–10	25–21		75–51
19 Sep	SEC	Egypt	0–3	Brazil	28–30	18–25	21–25		67–80
21 Sep	SP4	Cuba	3–0	Egypt	25–11	25–18	25–15		75–44
23 Sep	SP4	Egypt	1–3	Netherlands	21–25	11–25	33–31	20–25	85–106
25 Sep	SEC	Australia	3–0	Egypt	25–17	25–23	25–22		75–62

Weightlifting

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total
Athlete	Event	Weight	Rank	Weight	Rank	Weight	Rank
Mohamed Moussa El-Dib	Men's –85 kg	160.0	=12	192.5	=13	352.5	15
Nagwan El-Zawawi	Women's –69 kg	92.5	=11	No lift		did not finish

Wrestling

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Elimination pool				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mohamed Moustafa Abou Elea	54 kg	Kalashnykov (UKR) L 2–16	Kalilov (KGZ) L 1–3	Mays (USA) W 5–3	3	did not advance
Mohamed Abd El-Fatah	85 kg	Méndez (CUB) L 3–4	Clark (USA) W 12–0	—	2	did not advance

Notes

Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results . Retrieved 12 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
International Olympic Committee Web Site

References

↑ "Flagbearers for Egypt". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen . Retrieved 27 December 2023.
↑ "Egypt at the 2000 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
↑ Egypt at the 2000 Summer Olympics
↑ "Egypt Handball at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.

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[sports-reference-2] "Egypt at the 2000 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2012.

[3] Egypt at the 2000 Summer Olympics

[EGY-4] "Egypt Handball at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.

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Egypt at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Contents

Competitors

Archery

Athletics

Boxing

Cycling

Road Cycling

Equestrianism

Fencing

Gymnastics

Handball

Judo

Men

Women

Modern pentathlon

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Men

Shooting

Swimming

Men

Women

Synchronized swimming

Table Tennis

Taekwondo

Volleyball

Indoor

Men

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Notes

References