Kuwait at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Kuwait at the 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	KUW
NOC	Kuwait Olympic Committee
Website	www.kuwaitolympic.net (in Arabic) (in English)
in Sydney
Competitors	29 (all men) in 6 sports
Medals Ranked 71st	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
Independent Olympic Athletes (2016)

Kuwait competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The nation won its first ever Olympic medal at these Games. 29 competitors, all men, took part in ten events in six sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Fehaid Al-Deehani	Shooting	Men's double trap	September 20

Athletics

Men's 400m

• Fawzi Al Shammari
  1. Round 1 - 46.38 (did not advance)

Men's 4 × 400 m

• Musad Al Azimi, Badar Al Fulaij, Mishal Al Harbi, Fawzi Al Shammari
  1. Round 1 - DQ (did not advance)

Fencing

One fencer represented Kuwait in 2000.

Men's foil

• Abdul Muhsen Ali

Football

Men's team competition

• Group C
  • Kuwait 2:3 Cameroon
  • Kuwait 3:2 Czech Republic
  • Kuwait 1:3 USA
• Team Roster
  • ( 1.) Shehab Kankune
  • ( 2.) Naser Al-Omran
  • ( 3.) Jamal Mubarak
  • ( 4.) Bader Najem
  • ( 5.) Abdullah Husan
  • ( 6.) Nawaf Humaidan
  • ( 7.) Adel Al-Anezi
  • ( 8.) Nasser Al-Othman
  • ( 9.) Bashar Abdulaziz
  • ( 10.) Faraj Saeed
  • ( 11.) Abdullah Saihan
  • ( 12.) Hamad Al-Tayar
  • ( 13.) Sadoun Salman
  • ( 14.) Khalaf Al-Mutairi
  • ( 15.) Al-Beraiky
  • ( 16.) Yousef Zayed
  • ( 17.) Esam Al-Kandari
  • ( 18.) Nawaf Al-Khaldi

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 100m Backstroke

• Faisal Al Mahmeed
  1. Preliminary Heat - 01:05.17 (did not advance)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

• Sultan Altotaibi
  1. Preliminary Heat - 02:16.23 (did not advance)

Taekwondo

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