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The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000. A total of 10,651 athletes from 199 nations represented by National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 300 events in 28 sports.
Akiko Morigami is a Japanese former tennis player. She turned professional in 1998. On 15 August 2005, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 41.
Marion Hall Zinderstein also known by her married name Marion Jessup, was a tennis player from the United States. At the 1924 Paris Olympics, she won a silver medal in the mixed doubles event partnering Vincent Richards.
The United States competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
Pauline Elaine Davis-Thompson is a former Bahamian sprinter. She competed at five Olympics, a rarity for a track and field athlete. She won her first medal at her fourth Olympics and her first gold medals at her fifth Olympics at age 34 in the 4 × 100 m Relay and, after Marion Jones' belated disqualification nine years later, in the 200m.
Marion Jones Farquhar was an American tennis player. She won the women's singles titles at the 1899 and 1902 U.S. Championships. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006.
Marion Rodewald is a field hockey defender from Germany, who won the gold medal with the German National Women's Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Jearl Atawa Miles Clark is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 and 800 meters.
Paolo Francesco Radmilovic was a Welsh water polo player and competitive swimmer. Radmilovic had Croatian and Irish origins. He represented Great Britain at four editions of Summer Olympics. He won four Olympic titles in a 22-year Olympic career. He won four gold medals across three successive Olympic Games, a record which stood for a Great Britain Olympic athlete until broken by Sir Steve Redgrave when he won his fifth gold medal at Sydney in 2000. In 1928, he became the first person to compete for Britain at five Olympic Games, a record that would remain until surpassed by fencer Bill Hoskyns in 1976.
Charles Louis Pierre Marion was a French assassinated politician and general. He was also a horse rider who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Marion Dale Roper was an American diver who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Hubertus Schmidt is a German equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in team dressage at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the team from Germany.
Eleanor Goss was an American tennis player of the inter-war period. She first drew attention in tennis by winning titles as a student at Wellesley College. She won the US Women's National Championship in women's doubles four times, including three consecutive titles between 1918 and 1920 with Marion Zinderstein.
Zita-Eva Funkenhauser is a retired, Romanian-born German foil fencer. In 1984 and 1988 she won two team gold and bronze medal at the Olympics competing for West Germany and a silver competing for Germany.
Gabriele Marion "Gaby" Appel is a German former field hockey player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Marion Huber von Appen was a Chilean hurdler. She competed in the women's 80 metres hurdles and 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Marion Posch is an Italian snowboarder.
Marijan Marjanović was a Croatian footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Marion Reiff is an Austrian diver. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Darryl Sullivan is an American Olympic track and field athlete who specialises in the high jump.
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- ↑ "Marion Deplanque". Olympedia. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
