2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics

Athletics at the 2000 Olympic Games
information
venue	Stadium Australia
Competition venue	Sydney
date	September 22nd to October 1st, 2000
decisions	46 (24 , 22 )
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Athletics medal table
space	team				Total
1	United States	7th	4th	5	16
2	Ethiopia	4th	1	3	8th
3	Poland	4th	-	-	4th
4th	Russia	3	4th	6th	13
5	Kenya	2	3	2	5
6th	Great Britain	2	2	2	6th
	Cuba	2	2	2	6th
8th	Germany	2	1	5	8th
9	Belarus	2	-	3	5
10	Bahamas	2	-	1	3
11	Greece	1	3	-	4th
12	Romania	1	2	1	4th
13	Australia	1	2	-	3
14th	Algeria	1	1	2	4th
15th	Nigeria	1	1	-	2
	Norway	1	1	-	2
	Czech Republic	1	1	-	2
18th	Bulgaria	1	-	-	1
	People's Republic of China	1	-	-	1
	Estonia	1	-	-	1
	Finland	1	-	-	1
	Japan	1	-	-	1
	Kazakhstan	1	-	-	1
	Lithuania	1	-	-	1
	Mozambique	1	-	-	1
26th	Jamaica	-	5	3	8th
27	Italy	-	2	-	2
28	Morocco	-	1	3	4th
29	South Africa	-	1	2	3
30th	Mexico	-	1	1	2
	Trinidad and Tobago	-	1	1	2
32	Brazil	-	1	-	1
	Denmark	-	1	-	1
	Ireland	-	1	-	1
	Latvia	-	1	-	1
	Austria	-	1	-	1
	Saudi Arabia	-	1	-	1
	Sri Lanka	-	1	-	1
39	Ukraine	-	-	2	2
40	Barbados	-	-	1	1
	Iceland	-	-	1	1
	Portugal	-	-	1	1
	Sweden	-	-	1	1
	Spain	-	-	1	1

At the XXVII. 2000 Olympic Games in the Australian city of Sydney found 46 competitions in Athletics held, 24 of them for men and 22 for women.

Attendees

A conciliatory event was the joint invasion of South and North Korea at the opening ceremony. The IOC had agreed to the joint appearance of the two nations before the start of the games. This positive sign of rapprochement between the two countries was then gradually softened and turned into the opposite at the latest after the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . By the time of the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang , the two countries had moved far apart politically, economically and militarily.

There was a parallel in 1956 at the first Olympic Games on the Australian continent in Melbourne . There the two teams from the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR appeared for the first time with a joint team, which was continued up to and including 1964 , before there were two separate German teams from 1968 to 1988 .

Stadion

The ANZ Stadium was built on what was previously a fifty-year-old toxic waste dump. The defoliant Agent Orange was produced there during the Vietnam War, among other things. Guidelines for disposal before the start of construction were developed and implemented together with Greenpeace .

A noble construction made of glass, steel and plastic was built, which is supposed to be reminiscent of a spaceship. It was the largest stadium in Olympic history to date, with a capacity of 110,000 seats - 9,000 more than four years earlier in Atlanta .

Competitions

There were two additions to the women's program in the competition offer. The new competitions were the pole vault and the hammer throw . In addition, the distance of women walking has been increased from ten to twenty kilometers.

The offer for women had almost reached the size of the men's competitions. In the area of ​​running, only the 3,000-meter obstacle course was missing , which was to be reserved for men up to and including 2004 . In addition, the women only had to walk one distance as opposed to two distances for the men. There were and still are differences with regard to the height of the hurdles in the two hurdles and the length of the shorter hurdle route, which is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women, in order to take into account the different stride lengths of the sexes.

Special Role of the Australian Aborigines

The Aborigines , the native inhabitants of Australia, were brought into the picture in a special way . For centuries they had suffered disregard and oppression from immigrants. It was not until 1960 that they were granted full civil rights, entitlement to social benefits and the right to vote. At the Games in Sydney , the organizers wanted to take a big step towards the recognition and equality of these people. This attitude was embodied in a special way by the person Cathy Freeman , who was herself an indigenous woman and who stood as a spokesperson for their emancipation. Her family had been affected by the assaults and racial discrimination of the new masters in the past. Cathy Freeman's grandmother belonged to the so-called Stolen Generation ; she had been taken from her mother and sent to a state education camp. Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic flame and became Olympic champion in the 400-meter run . Millions of Australians supported her and cheered her on TV and live in the stadium.

doping

There were officially four cases of doping in athletics at these games.

• Marion Jones was listed as a three-time gold and two-time bronze medalist from 2000 to 2007. Her case became one of the most spectacular doping cases in athletics history. At first she was the outstanding athlete in these games, and she had won the following medals: gold in the 100 , 200 meters and 4 x 400 meters relay as well as bronze in the 4 x 100 meters relay and in the long jump . On December 12, 2007, she was subsequently disqualified. She had already given back the medals on October 8, 2007 after a doping confession . Jones' medals in the 200-meter run and long jump were awarded to the athletes placed below. In the 100-meter race, first place remained vacant. The disqualification of the two US relays by the IOC was withdrawn after a lawsuit by seven of the eight athletes concerned, which the International Court of Justice - CAS - upheld in July 2010. Marion Jones alone remained affected by the withdrawal of both relay medals.
• Antonio Pettigrew , USA - 400-meter run (initially seventh) and 4 x 400-meter relay (initially gold)
• When Jerome Young was in a sample of 1,999 nandrolone were found. He was only used in the relay prelim and since the US relay won gold in the finals, Young also received a gold medal according to the rules. During lengthy legal disputes, the IOC first decided on June 29, 2004 that Jerome Young had to surrender this gold medal, while the other members of the team were allowed to keep their medals. It was not until 2012 that the IOC officially recognized the gold medals from the entire US relay team. The Nigerian team was also declared an Olympic champion. This late honor came too late for the Nigerian relay runner Sunday Bada - he had died a few months before the IOC's decision.

• Svetlana Pospelowa , Russia - 400-meter run (initially fourth of her heat and thus eliminated)

Sporting successes

As is so often the case at such high points, the level of performance at these Olympic Games was high for the athletes. However, as there was four years earlier in Atlanta , there was no record flood, as seen again and again in the past at such events . No world record was set, but the Olympic record was improved ten times in ten disciplines, four times for men and six times for women.

The most successful nation was once again the USA . However, the Americans had to accept losses. In 1996 they won thirteen gold medals, now there are only seven. Instead of 23 medals in total, there were sixteen here in Sydney . However, other nations - like the Soviet Union or the GDR in the past - could not keep up. The athletes from Ethiopia and Poland presented four Olympic champions. There were three gold medals for Russia . Six other nations each recorded two gold medals for themselves, these were Kenya , Great Britain , Cuba , Germany , Belarus and the Bahamas . For all other nations there was at most one gold medal in athletics.

For the individual athletes, the following services are particularly worth mentioning.

• Three athletes won two gold medals each at these games:
  • Maurice Greene ( USA ) - 100-meter and 4-by-100-meter relay .
  • Robert Korzeniowski ( Poland ) - 20 and 50 km walking . He was the first double winner on both classic walking routes and had already won the 50 km competition in 1996 .
  • Pauline Davis-Thompson ( Bahamas ) - 200-meter run and 4-by-100-meter relay . She was only awarded her gold medals after the American Marion Jones was disqualified for doping reasons .
• Three special achievements were also remarkable:
  • Jan Železný ( Czech Republic ) was the first javelin thrower to win the javelin throw for the third time in a row .
  • Derartu Tulu ( Ethiopia ) won the 10,000 meter run here again after 1992 .
  • Heike Drechsler ( Germany ) won the long jump here again after 1992 .

Results men

100 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Maurice Greene	United States	09.87
2	Ato Boldon	TTO	09.99
3	Obadele Thompson	BAR	10.04
4th	Dwain Chambers	GBR	10.08
5	Jon Drummond	United States	10.09
6th	Darren Campbell	GBR	10.13
7th	Kim Collins	SKN	10.17
DNF	Aziz Zakari	GHA

Final: September 22, 2000

Wind: −0.3 m / s

200 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Konstantinos Kenteris	GRE	20.09
2	Darren Campbell	GBR	20.14
3	Ato Boldon	TTO	20.20
4th	Obadele Thompson	BAR	20.20
5	Christian Malcolm	GBR	20.23
6th	Claudinei da Silva	BRA	20.28
7th	Coby Miller	United States	20.35
8th	John Capel	United States	20.49

Final: September 28, 2000

Wind: −0.6 m / s

400 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Michael Johnson	United States	43.84
2	Alvin Harrison	United States	44.40
3	Gregory Haughton	JAM	44.70
4th	Sanderlei Parrela	BRA	45.01
5	Robert Maćkowiak	POLE	45.14
6th	Hendrick Mokganyetsi	RSA	45.26
7th	Danny McFarlane	JAM	45.55
DOP	Antonio Pettigrew	United States	45.42

Final: September 25, 2000

On August 3, 2008, the first placed seventh was subsequently disqualified for doping offenses .

800 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Nils Schumann	GER	1: 45.08
2	Wilson Kipketer	THE	1: 45.14
3	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	ALG	1: 45.16
4th	Hezekiél Sepeng	RSA	1: 45.29
5	André Bucher	SUI	1: 45.40
6th	Yuri Borsakovsky	RUS	1: 45.83
7th	Glody Dube	BOT	1: 46.24
DSQ	Andrea Longo	ITA

Final: September 27, 2000

Andrea Longo was disqualified for bumping into André Bucher.

1500 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Noah Ngeny	KEN	3: 32.07 OR
2	Hicham El Guerrouj	MAR	3: 32.32
3	Bernard Lagat	KEN	3: 32.44
4th	Mehdi Baala	FRA	3: 34.14
5	Kevin Sullivan	CAN	3: 35.50
6th	Daniel Zegeye	ETH	3: 36.78
7th	Andrés Manuel Díaz	ESP	3: 37.27
8th	Juan Carlos Higuero	ESP	3: 38.91

Final: September 29, 2000

5000 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Million wolde	ETH	13: 35.49
2	Ali Saïdi-Sief	ALG	13: 36.20
3	Brahim Lahlafi	MAR	13: 36.47
4th	Fita Bayisa	ETH	13: 37.03
5	David Chelule	KEN	13: 37.13
6th	Dagne Alemu	ETH	13: 37.17
7th	Serhiy Lebid	UKR	13: 37.80
8th	Jirka Arndt	GER	13: 38.57

Final: September 30, 2000

10,000 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Haile Gebrselassie	ETH	27: 18.20
2	Paul Tergat	KEN	27: 18.29
3	Assefa Mezgebu	ETH	27: 19.75
4th	Patrick Mutuku Ivuti	KEN	27: 20.44
5	John Cheruiyot Korir	KEN	27: 24.75
6th	Saïd Bérioui	MAR	27: 37.83
7th	Toshinari Takaoka	JPN	27: 40.44
8th	Karl Keska	GBR	27: 44.09

Final: September 25, 2000

marathon

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space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Denied Abera	ETH	2:10:11
2	Erick Wainaina	KEN	2:10:31
3	Tesfaye Tola	ETH	2:11:10
4th	Jon Brown	GBR	2:11:17
5	Giacomo Leone	ITA	2:12:14
6th	Martín Fiz	ESP	2:13:06
7th	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	MAR	2:13:49
8th	Mohamed Ouaadi	FRA	2:14:04

Date: October 1, 2000

110 m hurdles

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Anier García	CUB	13.00
2	Terrence Trammell	United States	13.16
3	Mark Crear	United States	13.22
4th	Allen Johnson	United States	13.23
5	Colin Jackson	GBR	13.28
6th	Florian Schwarthoff	GER	13.42
7th	Dudley Dorival	HAI	13.49
8th	Robert Kronberg	SWE	13.61

Final: September 25, 2000

Wind: +0.1 m / s

400 m hurdles

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Angelo Taylor	United States	47.50
2	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	KSA	47.53
3	Llewellyn Herbert	RSA	47.81
4th	James Carter	United States	48.04
5	Eronilde de Araújo	BRA	48.34
6th	Paweł Januszewski	POLE	48.44
7th	Fabrizio Mori	ITA	48.78
8th	Hennadij Horbenko	UKR	49.01

Final: September 27, 2000

3000 m obstacle

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Reuben Kosgei	KEN	8: 21.43
2	Wilson Boit Kipketer	KEN	8: 21.77
3	Ali Ezzine	MAR	8: 22.15
4th	Bernard Barmasai	KEN	8: 22.23
5	Luis Miguel Martín	ESP	8: 22.75
6th	Eliseo Martín	ESP	8: 23.00
7th	Brahim Boulami	MAR	8: 24.32
8th	Günther Weidlinger	AUT	8: 26.70

Final: September 29, 2000

4 × 100 m relay

→ Main article : 2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (men)

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	United States	Jon Drummond Bernard Williams Brian Lewis Maurice Greene in the heats also: Kenny Brokenburr Tim Montgomery	37.61
2	Brazil	Vicente de Lima Édson Ribeiro André da Silva Claudinei da Silva	37.90
3	Cuba	José Angel Cesar Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda Iván García Freddy Mayola	38.04
4th	Jamaica	Lindel Frater Dwight Thomas Christopher Williams Llewellyn Bredwood in the heats also: Donovan Powell	38.20
5	France	Frédéric Krantz David Patros Christophe Cheval Needy Guims in the heats as well: Jérôme Éyana	38.49
6th	Japan	Shigeyuki Kojima Koji Ito Shingo Suetsugu Nobuharu Asahara	38.66
7th	Italy	Francesco Scuderi Alessandro Cavallaro Maurizio Checcucci Andrea Colombo	38.67
8th	Poland	Marcin Nowak Marcin Urbaś Piotr Balcerzak Ryszard Pi-larczyk	38.96

Final: September 30, 2000

4 × 400 m relay

→ Main article : 2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 400 m (men)

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	Nigeria	Clement Chukwu Jude Monye Sunday Bada Enefiok Udo-Obong in the preliminary also: Nduka Awazie Fidelis Gadzama	2: 58.68
2	Jamaica	Michael Blackwood Gregory Haughton Christopher Williams Danny McFarlane in the heats also: Michael McDonald Sanjay Ayre	2: 58.78
3	Bahamas	Avard Moncur Troy McIntosh Carl Oliver Chris Brown in the heats also: Timothy Munnings	2: 59.23
4th	France	Emmanuel Front Marc Foucan Ibrahima Wade Marc Raquil in the heats also: Pierre-Marie Hilaire Bruno Wavelet	3: 01.02
5	Great Britain	Jared Deacon Daniel Caines Iwan Thomas Jamie Baulch	3: 01.22
6th	Poland	Piotr Rysiukiewicz Robert Maćkowiak Piotr Długosielski Piotr Haczek in the heats also: Filip Walotka Jacek Bocian	3: 03.22
7th	Australia	Brad Jamieson Blair Young Patrick Dwyer Michael Hazel in the heats also: Casey Vincent	3: 03.91
DOP	United States	Alvin Harrison Antonio Pettigrew Calvin Harrison Michael Johnson in the preliminary also: Jerome Young Angelo Taylor	2: 56.35

On August 2, 2008, the US squadron was stripped of the gold medal because of the doping case involving Antonio Pettigrew. All other seasons then moved up one place.

20 km walking

→ Main article : 2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Robert Korzeniowski	POLE	1:18:59 OR
2	Noé Hernández	MEX	1:19:03
3	Vladimir Andreyev	RUS	1:19:27
4th	Jefferson Perez	ECU	1:20:18
5	Andreas Erm	GER	1:20:25
6th	Roman Rasskasow	RUS	1:20:57
7th	Francisco Javier Fernández	ESP	1:21:01
8th	Nathan Deakes	OUT	1:21:03

Date: September 22, 2000

50 km of walking

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space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Robert Korzeniowski	POLE	3:42:22
2	Aigars Fadejevs	LAT	3:43:40
3	Joel Sánchez	MEX	3:44:36
4th	Valentí Massana	ESP	3:46:01
5	Nikolai Matyukhin	RUS	3:46:37
6th	Nathan Deakes	OUT	3:47:29
7th	Miguel Ángel Rodríguez	MEX	3:48:12
8th	Roman Magdziarczyk	POLE	3:48:17

Date: September 29, 2000

high jump

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space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Sergei Kljugin	RUS	2.35
2	Javier Sotomayor	CUB	2.32
3	Abderrahmane Hammad	ALG	2.32
4th	Stefan Holm	SWE	2.32
5	Konstantin Matusevich	ISR	2.32
6th	Staffan beach	SWE	2.32
6th	Mark Boswell	CAN	2.32
8th	Wolfgang Kreissig	GER	2.29

Final: September 24, 2000

Pole vault

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space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Nick Hysong	United States	5.90
2	Lawrence Johnson	United States	5.90
3	Maxim Tarasov	RUS	5.90
4th	Michael Stolle	GER	5.90
5	Dmitri Markov	OUT	5.80
5	Viktor Chistiakov	OUT	5.80
7th	Occert Brits	RSA	5.80
8th	Danny Ecker	GER	5.80

Final: September 29, 2000

Long jump

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Iván Pedroso	CUB	8.55
2	Jai Taurima	OUT	8.49
3	Roman Shchurenko	UKR	8.31
4th	Oleksiy Lukashevytsch	UKR	8.26
5	Kofi Amoah Prah	GER	8.19
6th	Peter Burge	OUT	8.15
7th	Luis Felipe Méliz	CUB	8.08
8th	Dwight Phillips	United States	8.06

Final: September 28, 2000

Triple jump

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Jonathan Edwards	GBR	17.71
2	Yoel García	CUB	17.47
3	Denis Kapustin	RUS	17.46
4th	Yoelbi Quesada	CUB	17.37
5	Onochie Achike	GBR	17.29
6th	Phillips Idowu	GBR	17.08
7th	Robert Howard	United States	17.05
8th	Paolo Camossi	ITA	16.96

Final: September 25, 2000

Shot put

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Arsi Harju	FIN	21.29
2	Adam Nelson	United States	21.21
3	John Godina	United States	21.20
4th	Andy Bloom	United States	20.87
5	Jurij Bilonoh	UKR	20.84
6th	Manuel Martínez	ESP	20.55
7th	Janus Robberts	RSA	20.32
8th	Oliver-Sven Buder	GER	20.18

Final: September 22, 2000

Discus throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Virgilijus Alekna	LTU	69.30
2	Lars Riedel	GER	68.50
3	Frantz Kruger	RSA	68.19
4th	Wassil Kapzjuch	BLR	67.59
5	Adam Setliff	United States	66.02
6th	Jason Tunks	CAN	65.80
7th	Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk	BLR	65.13
8th	Jürgen Schult	GER	64.41

Final: September 25, 2000

Hammer throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Szymon Ziółkowski	POLE	80.02
2	Nicola Vizzoni	ITA	79.64
3	Ihar Astapkovich	BLR	79.17
4th	Ivan Zichan	BLR	79.17
5	Ilya Konovalov	RUS	78.56
6th	Loris Paoluzzi	ITA	78.18
7th	Tibor Gécsek	HUN	77.70
8th	Vladimir Maška	CZE	77.32

Final: September 24, 2000

Javelin throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Jan Železný	CZE	90.17 OR
2	Steve Backley	GBR	89.85
3	Sergei Makarov	RUS	88.67
4th	Raymond Hecht	GER	87.76
5	Aki Parviainen	FIN	86.62
6th	Konstandinos Gatsioudis	GRE	86.53
7th	Boris Henry	GER	85.78
8th	Emeterio González	CUB	83.33

Final: September 22, 2000

Decathlon

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space	athlete	country	Points
1	Erki Nool	EST	8641
2	Roman Šebrle	CZE	8606
3	Chris Huffins	United States	8595
4th	Dean Macey	GBR	8567
5	Tom Pappas	United States	8425
6th	Tomáš Dvořák	CZE	8385
7th	Frank Busemann	GER	8351
8th	Attila Zsivóczky	HUN	8277

Date: 27./28. September 2000

Results women

100 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Gold medal not awarded after disqualification of Marion Jones
2	Ekaterini Thanou	GRE	11.12
	Tayna Lawrence	JAM	11.18
3	Merlene Ottey	JAM	11.19
4th	Schanna block	UKR	11.20
5	Chandra Sturrup	BAH	11.21
6th	Savatheda Fynes	BAH	11.22
7th	Debbie Ferguson	BAH	11.29
DOP	Marion Jones	United States	10.75

Final: September 22, 2000

Wind: −0.4 m / s

In December 2007, the first-placed Marion Jones was stripped of the gold medal for doping offenses . In December 2009 the IOC declared that there would be no new award of the gold medal in the 100-meter run. The main beneficiary of this new award would have been the Greek Ekaterini Thanou , who was also suspended for doping abuse in 2004, shortly before the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . The two Jamaicans Tayna Lawrence and Merlene Ottey each moved up one place. Like Thanou, Lawrence received a silver medal and Ottey a bronze medal.

200 m

→ Main article : 2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (women)

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Pauline Davis-Thompson	BAH	22.27
2	Susanthika Jayasinghe	SRI	22.28
3	Beverly McDonald	JAM	22.35
4th	Debbie Ferguson	BAH	22.37
5	Melinda Gainsford-Taylor	OUT	22.42
6th	Cathy Freeman	OUT	22.53
7th	Schanna block	UKR	22.66
DOP	Marion Jones	United States	21.84

Final: September 28, 2000

Wind: +0.7 m / s

The gold medal of the US-American Marion Jones, who was disqualified in 2007 for a doping offense , was awarded by the IOC in December 2009 to Pauline Davis-Thompson of the Bahamas and all other finalists also moved up one position.

400 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Cathy Freeman	OUT	49.11
2	Lorraine Graham	JAM	49.58
3	Katharine Merry	GBR	49.72
4th	Donna Fraser	GBR	49.79
5	Ana Guevara	MEX	49.96
6th	Heide Seyerling	RSA	50.05
7th	Falilat Ogunkoya	NGR	50.12
8th	Olga Kotlyarova	RUS	51.04

Final: September 25, 2000

800 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Maria de Lurdes Mutola	MOZ	1: 56.15
2	Stephanie Graf	AUT	1: 56.64
3	Kelly Holmes	GBR	1: 56.80
4th	Brigita Langerholc	SLO	1: 58.51
5	Helene Dziurová-Fuchsová	CZE	1: 58.56
6th	Zulia Calatayud	CUB	1: 58.66
7th	Hazel Clark	United States	1: 58.75
8th	Hasna Benhassi	MAR	1: 59.27

Final: September 25, 2000

1500 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Nouria Mérah-Benida	ALG	4: 05.10
2	Violeta Szekely	ROME	4: 05.15
3	Gabriela Szabo	ROME	4: 05.27
4th	Kutre Dulecha	ETH	4: 05.33
5	Lidia Chojecka	POLE	4: 06.42
6th	Anna Jakubczak	POLE	4: 06.49
7th	Kelly Holmes	GBR	4: 08.02
8th	Marla Runyan	United States	4: 08.30

Final: September 30, 2000

5000 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Gabriela Szabo	ROME	14: 40.79 OR
2	Sonia O'Sullivan	IRL	14: 41.02
3	Gete Wami	ETH	14: 42.23
4th	Ayelech Worku	ETH	14: 42.67
5	Irina Mikitenko	GER	14: 43.59
6th	Lydia Cheromei	KEN	14: 47.35
7th	Werknesh Kidane	ETH	14: 47.40
8th	Olga Yegorova	RUS	14: 50.31

Final: September 25, 2000

10,000 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Derartu Tulu	ETH	30: 17.49 OR
2	Gete Wami	ETH	30: 22.48
3	Fernanda Ribeiro	POR	30: 22.88
4th	Paula Radcliffe	GBR	30: 26.97
5	Tegla Loroupe	KEN	30: 37.26
6th	Sonia O'Sullivan	IRL	30: 53.37
7th	Li Ji	CHN	31: 06.94
8th	Elana Meyer	RSA	31: 14.70

Final: September 30, 2000

marathon

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space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Naoko Takahashi	JPN	2:23:14 OR
2	Lidia Șimon	ROME	2:23:22
3	Joyce Chepchumba	KEN	2:24:45
4th	Esther Wanjiru Maina	KEN	2:26:17
5	Madina Biktagirova	RUS	2:26:33
6th	Elfenesh Alemu	ETH	2:26:54
7th	Eri Yamaguchi	JPN	2:27:03
8th	Ham bong-sil	PRK	2:27:07

Date: September 24, 2000

100 m hurdles

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Olga Schischigina	KAZ	12.65
2	Glory alozie	NGR	12.68
3	Melissa Morrison	United States	12.76
4th	Delloreen Ennis-London	JAM	12.80
5	Aliuska López	CUB	12.83
6th	Nicole Ramalalanirina	FRA	12.91
7th	Linda Ferga	FRA	13.11
8th	Brigitte Foster	JAM	13.49

Final: September 27, 2000

Wind: 0.0 m / s

400 m hurdles

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Irina Privaleova	RUS	53.02
2	Deon Hemmings	JAM	53.45
3	Nezha Bidouane	MAR	53.57
4th	Daimí Pernía	CUB	53.68
5	Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova	UKR	53.98
6th	Ionela Târlea	ROME	54.35
7th	Guðrún Arnardóttir	ISL	54.63
8th	Tasha Danvers	GBR	55.00

Final: September 27, 2000

4 × 100 m relay

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space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	Bahamas	Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Pauline Davis-Thompson Debbie Ferguson in the heats as well: Eldece Clarke-Lewis	41.95
2	Jamaica	Tayna Lawrence Veronica Campbell Beverly McDonald Merlene Ottey in the preliminary also: Merlene Frazer	42.13
3	United States	Chryste Gaines Torri Edwards Nanceen Perry ( Marion Jones ) in the heats as well: Passion Richardson	42.20
4th	France	Linda Ferga Muriel Hurtis Fabé Dia Christine Arron in the preliminary also: Sandra Citte	42.42
5	Russia	Natalja Ignatowa Marina Trandenkowa Irina Chabarowa Natalja Pomoschtschnikowa-Voronowa in the preliminary also: Marina Kislowa	43.02
6th	Germany	Gabriele Rockmeier Sabrina Mulrain Andrea Philipp Marion Wagner	43.11
7th	Nigeria	Glory Alozie Benedicta Ajudua Mercy Nku Mary Onyali-Omagbemi	44.05
8th	People's Republic of China	Zeng Xiujun Liu Xiaomei Qin Wangping Li Xuemei	44.87

Final: September 30, 2000

On December 12, 2007, Marion Jones was disqualified for violating the doping rules. On April 10, 2008, the IOC Executive Committee decided to disqualify the United States relay altogether. Three of the four other runners - Chryste Gaines, Torri Edwards, Passion Richardson - sued this decision before the International Court of Justice (CAS), which ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in July 2010.

4 × 400 m relay

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space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	United States	Jearl Miles Clark Monique Hennagan ( Marion Jones ) LaTasha Colander in the preliminary also: Andrea Anderson	3: 22.62
2	Jamaica	Sandie Richards Catherine Scott-Pomales Deon Hemmings Lorraine Graham in the preliminary also: Charmaine Howell Michelle Burgher	3: 23.25
3	Russia	Julija Sotnikowa Svetlana Goncharenko Olga Kotljarowa Irina Priwalowa in the preliminary stages also: Olesja Sykina Natalja Nasarowa	3: 23.46
4th	Nigeria	Olabisi Afolabi Charity Opara Rosemary Okafor Falilat Ogunkoya in the preliminary also: Doris Jacob	3: 23.80
5	Australia	Nova Peris-Kneebone Tamsyn Lewis Melinda Gainsford-Taylor Cathy Freeman in the preliminary also: Susan Andrews Jana Pittman	3: 23.81
6th	Great Britain	Tasha Danvers Donna Fraser Allison Curbishley Katharine Merry in the heats also: Helen Frost	3: 25.67
7th	Czech Republic	Jitka Burianová Hana Benešova Lenka Ficková Helena Dziurová-Fuchsová	3: 29.17
8th	Cuba	Zulia Calatayud Julia Duporty Idalmis Bonne Daimí Pernía	3: 29.47

Final: September 30, 2000

On December 12, 2007, Marion Jones was disqualified for violating the doping rules. On April 10, 2008, the IOC Executive Committee decided to disqualify the United States relay altogether. The other four runners appealed against this decision to the International Court of Justice for Sports (CAS), which ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in July 2010.

20 km walking

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space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Wang Liping	CHN	1:29:05 OR
2	Kjersti places	NOR	1:29:33
3	Maria Vasco	ESP	1:30:23
4th	Erica Alfridi	ITA	1:31:25
5	María Guadalupe Sánchez	MEX	1:31:33
6th	Norica Câmpean	ROME	1:31:50
7th	Kerry Saxby-Junna	OUT	1:32:02
8th	Tatyana Gudkova	RUS	1:32:35

Date: September 24, 2000

high jump

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space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Jelena Jelessina	RUS	2.01
2	Hestrie Cloete	RSA	2.01
3	Kajsa Bergqvist	SWE	1.99
3	Oana Pantelimon	ROME	1.99
5	Inha Babakowa	UKR	1.96
6th	Svetlana Salevskaya	KAZ	1.96
7th	Wita Palamar	UKR	1.96
8th	Amewu Mensah	GER	1.93

Final: September 30, 2000

Pole vault

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space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Stacy Dragila	United States	4.60 OR
2	Tatiana Grigorieva	OUT	4.55
3	Vala Flosadóttir	ISL	4.50
4th	Daniela Bártová	CZE	4.50
5	Nicole Humbert	GER	4.45
6th	Yvonne Buschbaum	GER	4.40
7th	Monika Pyrek	POLE	4.40
8th	Marie Bagger Rasmussen	THE	4.35

Final: September 25, 2000

Long jump

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Heike Drechsler	GER	6.99
2	Fiona May	ITA	6.92
3	Tatiana Kotova	RUS	6.83
4th	Olga Rublyova	RUS	6.79
5	Susen Tiedtke	GER	6.74
6th	Jackie Edwards	BAH	6.59
7th	Do Vaszi	HUN	6.59
8th	Lyudmila Galkina	RUS	6.56

Final: September 29, 2000

The bronze medal of Marion Jones from the USA , who was initially disqualified for doping offenses in 2007 , was awarded by the IOC in December 2009 to Russian Tatyana Kotova. In 2013 it was found that Kotowa was also doped at the 2005 World Championships . However, this had no effect on Kotowa's rating here in Sydney .

Triple jump

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Teresa Marinova	BUL	15.20
2	Tatiana Lebedeva	RUS	15.00
3	Olena Howorova	UKR	14.96
4th	Yamilé Aldama	CUB	14.30
5	Baya Rahouli	ALG	14.17
6th	Cristina Nicolau	ROME	14.17
7th	Olga Vasdeki	GRE	14.15
8th	Oxana Rogova	RUS	13.97

Final: September 24, 2000

Shot put

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Janina Karoltschyk	BLR	20.56
2	Larissa Peleschenko	RUS	19.92
3	Astrid Kumbernuss	GER	19.62
4th	Svetlana Kriweljowa	RUS	19.37
5	Krystyna Zabawska	POLE	19.18
6th	Yumileidi Cumbá	CUB	18.70
7th	Kalliopi Ouzouni	GRE	18.63
8th	Nadine Kleinert	GER	18.49

Final: September 28, 2000

Discus throw

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Elina Swerava	BLR	68.40
2	Anastasia Kelesidou	GRE	65.71
3	Iryna Yatchanka	BLR	65.20
4th	Natalia Sadova	RUS	65.00
5	Styliani Tsikouna	GRE	64.08
6th	Franka Dietzsch	GER	63.18
7th	Ilke Wyludda	GER	63.16
8th	Lisa-Marie Vizaniari	OUT	62.57

Final: September 27, 2000

Hammer throw

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Kamila Skolimowska	POLE	71.16 OR
2	Olga Kusenkova	RUS	69.77
3	Kirsten Münchow	GER	69.28
4th	Yipsi Moreno	CUB	68.33
5	Deborah Sosimenko	OUT	67.95
6th	Lyudmila Hubkina	BLR	67.08
7th	Dawn Ellerbe	United States	66.80
8th	Amy Palmer	United States	66.15

Final: September 29, 2000

Javelin throw

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Trine Hattestad	NOR	68.91 OR
2	Mirela Manjani	GRE	67.51
3	Osleidys Menéndez	CUB	66.18
4th	Steffi Nerius	GER	64.84
5	Sonia Bisset	CUB	63.26
6th	Xiomara Rivero	CUB	62.92
7th	Tatiana Schikolenko	RUS	62.91
8th	Nikola Tomečková	CZE	62.10

Final: September 30, 2000

Heptathlon

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space	Athlete	country	Points
1	Denise Lewis	GBR	6584
2	Elena Prokhorova	RUS	6531
3	Natallia Sasanovich	BLR	6527
4th	Urszula Włodarczyk	POLE	6470
5	Sabine Braun	GER	6355
6th	Natalia Roschtschupkina	RUS	6237
7th	Karin Ertl	GER	6209
8th	Tiia Hautala	FIN	6173

Final: 23./24. September 2000

literature

• Rudi Cerne (Ed.), Sydney 2000, The Games of the XXVII. Olympiad with contributions by Rudi Cerne, Birgit Fischer , Willi Phillip Knecht , Willi Leissl and Jan Ullrich , MOHN Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh, pp. 6–29, pp. 48–51, (General information on the games in Atlanta), p. 56–81 (athletics reports), pp. 224–227 (athletics medalists)

Web links

• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on March 18, 2018
• Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference.com database , accessed on March 18, 2018
• Olympic Games. Sydney 2000 , IOC Official Site , accessed March 18, 2018
• 27th Olympic Games. Sydney (Olympic Stadium), AUSTRALIA SEP 22 2000 - OCT 01 2000 , results and reports, accessed April 17, 2018
• Sydney 2000: Return of the Olympic spirit on rio.sportschau.de, accessed on March 18, 2018
• Sydney 2000 at olympia-lexikon.de, accessed on March 18, 2018
• Gigantic Olympia , Focus September 11, 2000, No. 37/2000, accessed on March 18, 2018
• Aboriginal people lit the flame , Spiegel Online September 15, 2000, accessed March 18, 2018
• The Aborigines , Church and Sport from www.kirche-und-sport, accessed on March 18, 2018
• Superlatives in Sydney , Spiegel Online October 1, 2000, accessed March 18, 2018
• USA two medals are taken , RP Online April 10, 2008, accessed March 18, 2018
• Expensive Olympia 2000 , Zeit Online September 2, 1999, accessed March 18, 2018

Video

• The Sydney 2000 Olympics - The Complete Film / Olympic History on youtube.com, published June 26, 2013, accessed March 18, 2018

Footnotes

1. ↑ South and North Korea may compete together , Spiegel Online January 20, 2018, accessed on March 18, 2018
2. ↑ Former Centennial Olympic Stadium Bought on aroundtherings.com, accessed on February 22, 2018
3. ↑ Rudi Cerne (ed.), Sydney 2000, Die Spiele der XXVII. Olympiad with contributions by Rudi Cerne, Birgit Fischer , Willi Phillip Knecht , Willi Leissl and Jan Ullrich , MOHN Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh, p. 22
4. ↑ Aborigines. Cathy Freeman - The current success model on planet-wissen.de, accessed on March 18, 2018
5. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : Jones returns Olympic medals after confessing doping ( Memento from February 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). October 9, 2007, accessed March 18, 2018
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Final Award - CAS 2008 / A / 1545 Andrea Anderson, LaTasha Colander Clark, Jearl Miles-Clark, Torri Edwards, Chryste Gaines, Monique Hennagan, Passion Richardson v / IOC ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2014 on the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 210 kB). dated July 17, 2010, accessed March 18, 2018 
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Former US Track Athlete, Antonio Pettigrew, Accepts Responsibility For Doping Violation , US Anti-Doping Agency, accessed March 18, 2018
8. ↑ Gatlin Coach trained nine doped athletes on spiegel.de August 1, 2006, accessed on March 18, 2018
9. ^ IOC decision to award Nigeria 4x400m gold medal from Sydney 2000 comes too late for Sunday Bada , Inside The Games July 21, 2012, accessed on March 18, 2018
10. ↑ Russian woman tested positive , Spiegel Online September 30, 2000, accessed on March 18, 2018
11. ↑ ^{a b c} IOC: IOC reallocates Marion Jones' medals ( Memento from December 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). December 9, 2009
12. ↑ ^{a b} Highlights of last IOC Executive Board meeting of the year , accessed March 18, 2018
13. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Subsequent test: Tatyana Kotova suspended , www.leichtathletik.de, February 9, 2013, accessed on March 18, 2018