Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)74516
2 Ethiopia (ETH)4138
3 Poland (POL)4004
4 Russia (RUS)34613
5 Kenya (KEN)2327
6 Cuba (CUB)2226
 Great Britain (GBR)2226
8 Germany (GER)2125
9 Belarus (BLR)2035
10 Bahamas (BAH)2013
11 Greece (GRE)1304
12 Romania (ROU)1225
13 Australia (AUS)1203
14 Algeria (ALG)1124
15 Czech Republic (CZE)1102
 Nigeria (NGR)1102
 Norway (NOR)1102
18 Bulgaria (BUL)1001
 China (CHN)1001
 Estonia (EST)1001
 Finland (FIN)1001
 Japan (JPN)1001
 Kazakhstan (KAZ)1001
 Lithuania (LTU)1001
 Mozambique (MOZ)1001
26 Jamaica (JAM)0639
27 Italy (ITA)0202
28 Morocco (MAR)0134
29 South Africa (RSA)0123
30 Mexico (MEX)0112
 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)0112
32 Austria (AUT)0101
 Brazil (BRA)0101
 Denmark (DEN)0101
 Ireland (IRL)0101
 Latvia (LAT)0101
 Saudi Arabia (KSA)0101
 Sri Lanka (SRI)0101
39 Ukraine (UKR)0022
40 Barbados (BAR)0011
 Iceland (ISL)0011
 Portugal (POR)0011
 Spain (ESP)0011
 Sweden (SWE)0011
Totals (44 nations)454747139

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. Numbers in parenthesis indicate the number of athletes representing each nation.

Medal summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Maurice Greene
 United States
9.87 Ato Boldon
 Trinidad and Tobago
9.99 Obadele Thompson
 Barbados
10.04
200 metres
Konstantinos Kenteris
 Greece
20.09 Darren Campbell
 Great Britain
20.14 Ato Boldon
 Trinidad and Tobago
20.20
400 metres
Michael Johnson
 United States
43.84 Alvin Harrison
 United States
44.40 Greg Haughton
 Jamaica
44.70
800 metres
Nils Schumann
 Germany
1:45.08 Wilson Kipketer
 Denmark
1:45.14 Djabir Saïd-Guerni
 Algeria
1:45.16
1500 metres
Noah Ngeny
 Kenya
3:32.07
(OR)
Hicham El Guerrouj
 Morocco
3:32:32 Bernard Lagat
 Kenya
3:32.44
5000 metres
Million Wolde
 Ethiopia
13:35.49 Ali Saïdi-Sief
 Algeria
13:36.20 Brahim Lahlafi
 Morocco
13:36.47
10,000 metres
Haile Gebrselassie
 Ethiopia
27:18.20 Paul Tergat
 Kenya
27:18.29 Assefa Mezgebu
 Ethiopia
27:19.75
110 metres hurdles
Anier Garcia
 Cuba
13.00 Terrence Trammell
 United States
13.16 Mark Crear
 United States
13.22
400 metres hurdles
Angelo Taylor
 United States
47.50 Hadi Al-Somaily
 Saudi Arabia
47.53 Llewellyn Herbert
 South Africa
47.81
3000 metres
steeplechase
Reuben Kosgei
 Kenya
8:21.43 Wilson Boit Kipketer
 Kenya
8:21.77 Ali Ezzine
 Morocco
8:22.15
4×100 metres relay
 United States (USA)
Jon Drummond
Bernard Williams
Brian Lewis
Maurice Greene
Tim Montgomery*
Kenneth Brokenburr*
37.61  Brazil (BRA)
Vicente Lenilson
Edson Ribeiro
André da Silva
Claudinei Quirino
Cláudio Souza*
37.90  Cuba (CUB)
Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda
Ivan Garcia
Freddy Mayola
José Ángel César
38.04
4×400 metres relay
 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
Gezahegne Abera
 Ethiopia
2:10:11 Erick Wainaina
 Kenya
2:10:31 Tesfaye Tola
 Ethiopia
2:11:10
20 kilometres walk
Robert Korzeniowski
 Poland
1:18:59
(OR)
Noé Hernández
 Mexico
1:19:03 Vladimir Andreyev
 Russia
1:19:27
50 kilometres walk
Robert Korzeniowski
 Poland
3:42:22 Aigars Fadejevs
 Latvia
3:43:40 Joel Sánchez Guerrero
 Mexico
3:44:36
High jump
Sergey Klyugin
 Russia
2.35 m Javier Sotomayor
 Cuba
2.32 m Abderrahmane Hammad
 Algeria
2.32 m
Pole vault
Nick Hysong
 United States
5.90 m Lawrence Johnson
 United States
5.90 m Maksim Tarasov
 Russia
5.90 m
Long jump
Iván Pedroso
 Cuba
8.55 m Jai Taurima
 Australia
8.49 m Roman Shchurenko
 Ukraine
8.31 m
Triple jump
Jonathan Edwards
 Great Britain
17.71 m Yoel García
 Cuba
17.47 m Denis Kapustin
 Russia
17.46 m
Shot put
Arsi Harju
 Finland
21.29 m Adam Nelson
 United States
21.21 m John Godina
 United States
21.20 m
Discus throw
Virgilijus Alekna
 Lithuania
69.30 m Lars Riedel
 Germany
68.50 m Frantz Kruger
 South Africa
68.19 m
Hammer throw
Szymon Ziółkowski
 Poland
80.02 m Nicola Vizzoni
 Italy
79.64 m Igor Astapkovich
 Belarus
79.17 m
Javelin throw
Jan Železný
 Czech Republic
90.17 m
(OR)
Steve Backley
 Great Britain
89.85 m Sergey Makarov
 Russia
88.67 m
Decathlon
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

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Not awarded[2] Ekaterini Thanou
 Greece
11.12 Merlene Ottey
 Jamaica
11.19
Tayna Lawrence
 Jamaica
11.18
200 metres
Pauline Davis-Thompson
 Bahamas
22.27 Susanthika Jayasinghe
 Sri Lanka
22.28
(NR)
Beverly McDonald
 Jamaica
22.35
400 metres
Cathy Freeman
 Australia
49.11 Lorraine Graham
 Jamaica
49.58 Katharine Merry
 Great Britain
49.72
800 metres
Maria de Lurdes Mutola
 Mozambique
1:56.15 Stephanie Graf
 Austria
1:56.64 Kelly Holmes
 Great Britain
1:56.80
1500 metres
Nouria Mérah-Benida
 Algeria
4:05.10 Violeta Beclea
 Romania
4:05.15 Gabriela Szabo
 Romania
4:05.27
5000 metres
Gabriela Szabo
 Romania
14:40.79
(OR)
Sonia O'Sullivan
 Ireland
14:41.02
(NR)
Gete Wami
 Ethiopia
14:42.23
10,000 metres
Derartu Tulu
 Ethiopia
30:17.49
(OR)
Gete Wami
 Ethiopia
30:22.48 Fernanda Ribeiro
 Portugal
30:22.88
(NR)
100 metres hurdles
Olga Shishigina
 Kazakhstan
12.65 Glory Alozie
 Nigeria
12.68 Melissa Morrison
 United States
12.76
400 metres hurdles
Irina Privalova
 Russia
53.02 Deon Hemmings
 Jamaica
53.45 Nezha Bidouane
 Morocco
53.57
4×100 metres relay
 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
 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
Naoko Takahashi
 Japan
2:23:14
(OR)
Lidia Șimon
 Romania
2:23:22 Joyce Chepchumba
 Kenya
2:24:45
20 kilometres walk
Wang Liping
 China
1:29:05
(OR)
Kjersti Plätzer
 Norway
1:29:33 María Vasco
 Spain
1:30:23
High jump
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
Stacy Dragila
 United States
4.60 m
(OR)
Tatiana Grigorieva
 Australia
4.55 m Vala Flosadóttir
 Iceland
4.50 m
Long jump
Heike Drechsler
 Germany
6.99 m Fiona May
 Italy
6.92 m Tatyana Kotova
 Russia
6.83 m
Triple jump
Tereza Marinova
 Bulgaria
15.20 m Tatyana Lebedeva
 Russia
15.00 m Olena Hovorova
 Ukraine
14.96 m
Shot put
Yanina Karolchik
 Belarus
20.56 m Larisa Peleshenko
 Russia
19.92 m Astrid Kumbernuss
 Germany
19.62 m
Discus throw
Ellina Zvereva
 Belarus
68.40 m Anastasía Kelesídou
 Greece
65.71 m Iryna Yatchenko
 Belarus
65.20 m
Hammer throw
Kamila Skolimowska
 Poland
71.16 m Olga Kuzenkova
 Russia
69.77 m Kirsten Münchow
 Germany
69.28 m
Javelin throw
Trine Hattestad
 Norway
68.91 m
(OR)
Mirela Maniani-Tzelili
 Greece
67.51 m Osleidys Menéndez
 Cuba
66.18 m
Heptathlon
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

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. Marion Jones of the United States admitted to having taken performance enhancing drugs 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 reawarded as follows
    100 metres
    1. not awarded
    2. Ekaterini Thanou 11.12 and Tayna Lawrence 11.18
    3. Merlene Ottey 11.19
    Though the IAAF lists Thanou as the first-place finisher in the women's 100m race, she was not awarded a gold medal by the IOC (because she was sanctioned for doping violations later), the IOC choosing instead to upgrade Lawrence and Ottey, but leave the gold-medal slot vacant.
    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 4x100 m and 4x400 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.
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