2000 Summer Olympics / Participant (United States)

United States

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The United States of America took part in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in the Australian metropolis of Sydney with 586 athletes, 333 men and 253 women, in 31 sports.

Since 1896 it was the 23rd participation of the United States in the Summer Olympics .

Flag bearer

Canoeist Cliff Meidl wore the stars and stripes , the flag of the United States , during the opening ceremony at Stadium Australia , at the closing ceremony it was carried by wrestler Rulon Gardner .

Medals

37 won gold, 24 silver and 32 bronze medals, the US team took 1st place in the medals table .

Participants by sport

badminton

• Kevin Han

  Men's singles

baseball

Men (gold )

• Brent Abernathy
• Kurt Ainsworth
• Pat Borders
• Sean Burroughs
• John Cotton
• Travis Dawkins
• Adam Everett
• Ryan Franklin
• Chris George
• Shane Heams
• Marcus Jensen
• Mike Kinkade
• Rick Krivda
• Doug Mientkiewicz
• Mike Neill
• Roy Oswalt
• Jon Rauch
• Anthony Sanders
• Bobby Seay
• Ben sheets
• Brad Wilkerson
• Todd Williams
• Ernie Young
• Tim Young

basketball

Men (gold )	Women (gold )
Shareef Abdur-Rahim Ray Allen Vin Baker Vincent Carter Kevin Garnett Tim Hardaway Allan Houston Jason Kidd Antonio McDyess Alonzo Mourning Gary Payton Steve Smith Team boss Rudy Tomjanovich	Ruthie Bolton-Holifield Teresa Edwards Yolanda Griffith Chamique Holdsclaw Lisa Leslie Nikki McCray DeLisha Milton-Jones Katie Smith Dawn Staley Sheryl Swoopes Natalie Williams Kara Wolters Team leader Nell Fortner

Archery

• Janet Dykman

  Ladies

• Denise Parker

  Ladies

• Karen Scavotto

  Ladies

• Butch Johnson (bronze with the team)

  Men's

• Rod White (bronze with the team)

  Men's

• Vic Wunderle (silver in the individual, bronze with the team)

  Men's

Boxing

discipline	athlete
Half fly weight (up to 48 kg)	Brian Viloria
Flyweight (up to 51 kg)	José Navarro
Bantam weight (up to 54 kg)	Clarence Vinson (bronze )
Feather weight (up to 57 kg)	Rocky Juarez (silver )
Lightweight (up to 60 kg)	David Jackson
Half welter weight (up to 63.5 kg)	Ricardo Williams (silver )
Welter weight (up to 67 kg)	Dante Craig
Medium weight (up to 71 kg)	Jermain Taylor (bronze )
Middle weight (up to 75 kg)	Jeff Lacy
Light heavyweight (up to 81 kg)	Olanda Anderson
Heavy weight (up to 91 kg)	Michael Bennett
Super heavyweight (over 91 kg)	Calvin Brock

fencing

• Epee singles, gentlemen
  • Tamir Bloom
• Foil singles, men
  • Cliff Bayer
• Saber singles, gentlemen
  • Keeth Smart
  • Akhnaten Spencer-El
• Epee singles, ladies
  • Ann Marsh
• Foil singles and teams, women
  • Arlene Stevens
  • Felicia Zimmermann
  • Iris Zimmermann

Soccer

Men's Jeff Agoos Chris Albright DaMarcus Beasley Chris Brown Danny Califf Conor Casey Ramiro Corrales Joey DiGiamarino Landon Donovan Brian Dunseth Brad Friedel Frankie Hejduk Tim Howard Chad McCarty Matt Napoleon John O'Brien Ben Olsen Peter Vagenas Sasha Victorine Evan Whitfield Brian Winters Josh Wolff Trainer Clive Charles Results Preliminary round  Czech Republic : 2-2  Cameroon : 1: 1  Kuwait : 3-1 Quarter finals  Japan : 2: 2 ae, 5: 4 ae Semifinals  Spain : 1: 3 3rd place match  Chile : 0-2

Women (silver ) Jenni Branam Susan Bush Brandi Chastain Lorrie Fair Joy Fawcett Julie Foudy Michelle French Mia Hamm Kristine Lilly Shannon MacMillan Kate Margrave Tiffeny Milbrett Siri Mullinix Carla Overbeck Cindy Parlow Christie Rampone Briana Scurry Nikki Serlenga Danielle Slaton Aly Wagner Christie Welsh Sara Whalen trainer April Heinrichs Results Preliminary round  Norway : 2-0  People's Republic of China : 1: 1  Nigeria : 3-1 Semifinals  Brazil : 1-0 final  Norway : 2-3 a.m.

Weightlifting

• Oscar Chaplin
• Tara Cunningham (Gold )
• Robin Goad
• Shane Hamman
• Cheryl Haworth (bronze )
• Cara Heads Lane

Judo

• Sandy Bacher
• Martin Boonzaayer
• Brandan Greczkowski
• Ato hand
• Lauren Meece
• Jason Morris
• Brian Olson
• Alex Ottiano
• Jimmy Pedro
• Colleen Rosensteel
• Celita protection
• Amy Tong
• Ellen Wilson
• Hillary Wolf

canoe

Racing

• Philippe Boccara (kayak)
• Kathy Colin (Kayak)
• Tamara Jenkins (kayak)
• Stein Jorgensen (kayak)
• Jordan Malloch (Canadier)
• Cliff Meidl (kayak)
• John Mooney (Kayak)
• Peter Newton (kayak)
• Angel Pérez (kayak)

slalom

• Rebecca Giddens (Kayak)
• Lecky Haller (Canadian)
• David Hearn (Canadian)
• Scott Shipley (Kayak)
• Matt Taylor (Canadian)

athletics

discipline	Men's	Ladies
100 m	Maurice Greene (Gold ) Jon Drummond Curtis Johnson	Torri Edwards Chryste Gaines Marion Jones
200 m	John Capel Floyd Heard Coby Miller	Torri Edwards Marion Jones Nanceen Perry
400 m	Michael Johnson (Gold ) Alvin Harrison (Silver ) Antonio Pettigrew	LaTasha Colander Michelle Collins Monique Hennagan
800 m	Mark Everett Rich Kenah Bryan Woodward	Hazel Clark Joetta Clark-Diggs Jearl Miles-Clark
1500 m	Gabe Jennings Jason Pyrah Michael Stember	Shayne Culpepper Suzy Favor-Hamilton Marla Runyan
5000 m	Adam Goucher Brad Hauser Nick Rogers	Elva Dryer Anne Marie Lauck Amy Rudolph
10,000 m	Abdihakem Abdirahman Alan Culpepper Meb Keflezighi	Libbie Hickman Deena Kastor Jen Rhines
marathon	Rod DeHaven	Christine Clark
20 km walking	Tim Seaman	Debbi Lawrence Michelle Rohl Chen Yueling
50 km of walking	Curt Clausen Phillip Dunn Andrew Hermann
100 m hurdles		Melissa Morrison (Bronze ) Sharon Couch-Jewell Gail Devers
110 m hurdles	Terrence Trammell (Silver ) Mark Crear (Bronze ) Allen Johnson
400 m hurdles	Angelo Taylor (Gold ) James Carter Eric Thomas	Kim Batten Tonja Buford-Bailey Sandra Glover
3000 m obstacle	Tony Cosey Mark Croghan Pascal Dobert
4 x 100 meter relay	Kenny Brokenburr (Gold for pre-deployment) Jon Drummond (Gold ) Maurice Greene (Gold ) Brian Lewis (Gold ) Tim Montgomery (Gold for pre-deployment) Bernard Williams (Gold )	Torri Edwards (bronze ) Chryste Gaines (bronze ) Marion Jones Nanceen Perry (bronze ) Passion Richardson (bronze for preliminary use)
4 x 400 meter relay	Alvin Harrison Calvin Harrison Michael Johnson Antonio Pettigrew Angelo Taylor Jerome Young	Andrea Anderson (gold for preliminary work) LaTasha Colander (gold ) Monique Hennagan (gold ) Marion Jones Jearl Miles-Clark (gold )
high jump	Charles Austin Kenny Evans Nathan Leeper	Amy Acuff Erin Aldrich Karol Damon
Pole vault	Nick Hysong (Gold ) Lawrence Johnson (Silver ) Chad Harting	Stacy Dragila (Gold ) Melissa Mueller Kellie Suttle
Long jump	Mel Lister Dwight Philipps Savanté Stringfellow	Dawn Burrell Marion Jones Shana Williams
Triple jump	LaMark Carter Walter Davis Robert Howard	Nicole Gamble
Javelin throw	Breaux Greer	Lynda Blood Kingdom
Discus throw	John Godina Adam Setliff Anthony Washington	Kris Kuehl Suzy Powell-Roos Seilala Sua
Shot put	Adam Nelson (silver ) John Godina (bronze ) Andy Bloom	Jesseca Cross Connie Price-Smith Teri Tunks
Hammer throw	Lance Deal Jud Logan Kevin McMahon	Jesseca Cross Dawn Ellerbe Amy Palmer
Heptathlon		Shelia Burrell DeDee Nathan
Decathlon	Chris Huffins (bronze ) Tom Pappas Kip Janvrin

Marion Jones was subsequently stripped of her medals won in the relay competitions because of doping.

Modern pentathlon

• Mary Beth Iagorashvili

  Ladies, singles

• Velizar Iliev

  Gentlemen, singles

• Emily deRiel (silver )

  Ladies, singles

• Chad Sr.

  Gentlemen, singles

Cycling

• Lance Armstrong
• Chelly Arrue
• Johnny Bairos
• Derek Bouchard-Hall
• Travis Brown
• J'me Carney
• Jonas Carney
• Antonio Cruz
• Alison Dunlap
• Nicole Freedman
• Mariano Friedick
• Tyler Hamilton
• Erin Hartwell
• George Hincapie
• Mari Holden (silver )
• Tinker Juarez
• Karen Kurreck
• Tanya Lindenmuth
• Ruthie Matthes
• Erin Mirabella
• Tommy Mulkey
• Marty Nothstein (gold )
• Fred Rodriguez
• Ann Trombley
• Christian Vande Velde
• Chris Witty

horse riding

• Susan Blinks (Bronze )
• Robert Costello
• Robert Dover (bronze )
• Nina Fout (bronze )
• Nona Garson
• Margie Goldstein-Engle
• Lauren Hough
• Laura herb
• Karen Loin O'Connor (Bronze )
• David O'Connor (gold , bronze )
• Julie Richards
• Guenter Seidel (bronze )
• Christine Sad (Bronze )
• Linden Wiesman (bronze )

Wrestling

• Kevin Bracken
• Terry Brands (Bronze )
• Charles Burton
• Quincey Clark
• Melvin Douglas
• Rulon Gardner (Gold )
• Jim Gruenwald
• Samuel Henson (silver )
• Cary Kolat
• Matt Lindland (Silver )
• Garrett Lowney (bronze )
• Steven Mays
• Kerry McCoy
• Lincoln McIlravy (Bronze )
• Heath Sims
• Brandon Slay (Gold )

rowing

• Chris Ahrens
• Tom Auth
• Sebastian Bea (silver )
• Pete Cipollone
• Christine Collins (bronze )
• Porter Collins
• Ruth Davidon
• Jennifer Dore
• Mike Ferry
• Torrey Folk
• Amy Fuller
• Sarah Garner (bronze )
• Hilary Gehman
• Conal groom
• Sean Hall
• Sarah Jones
• Bob Kaehler
• Jeff Klepacki
• Laurel Korholz
• Jamie Koven
• Karen Kraft (bronze )
• Katie Maloney
• Amy Martin
• Elizabeth McCagg
• Ian McGowan
• Garrett Miller
• Linda Miller
• Wolf Moser
• Eric Mueller
• Ted Murphy (silver )
• Lianne Nelson
• Henry Nuzum
• Nick Peterson
• Greg Ruckman
• Kelly Salchow
• Marc Schneider
• Missy Schwen-Ryan (Bronze )
• Raj Shah
• Dave Simon
• Carol Skricki
• Donald Smith
• Paul Teti
• Monica Tranel Michini
• Steve Tucker
• Bryan Volpenhein
• Thomas Welsh
• Jake Wetzel
• Mike Wherley

shoot

• Michael Anti
• Lance Bade
• Janine Bowman
• Christina Cassidy
• Bill Demarest
• Lance Dement
• Jayme Dickman
• Michael Douglass
• Glenn Dubis
• Walton Eller
• Jean Foster
• Cindy Gentry
• James Graves (bronze )
• Kenneth Johnson
• Thrine Kane
• Bill Keever
• Josh Lakatos
• John McNally
• Melissa Mulloy
• Nancy Johnson (Gold )
• Jason Parker
• Kimberly Rhode (bronze )
• Adam Saathoff
• Michael Schmidt, Jr.
• Cindy Shenberger
• Beki Snyder
• Daryl Szarenski
• Tom Tamas

swim

discipline	Men's	Ladies
50 m freestyle	Anthony Ervin (Gold ) Gary Hall Junior (Gold )	Dara Torres (bronze ) Amy Van Dyken
100 m freestyle	Gary Hall junior (bronze ) Neil Walker	Jenny Thompson (bronze ) Dara Torres (bronze )
200 m freestyle	Josh Davis Scott Goldblatt	Lindsay Benko Rada Owen
400 m freestyle	Klete Keller (bronze ) Chad Carvin	Brooke Bennett (Gold ) Diana Munz (Silver )
800 m freestyle		Brooke Bennett (Gold ) Kaitlin Sandeno (Bronze )
1500 m freestyle	Chris Thompson (bronze ) Erik Vendt
100 m back	Lenny Krayzelburg (Gold ) Neil Walker	BJ Bedford Courtney Shealy
200 m back	Lenny Krayzelburg (Gold ) Aaron Peirsol (Silver )	Amanda Adkins Lindsay Benko
100 m chest	Ed Moses (silver ) Pat Calhoun	Megan Jendrick (Gold ) Staciana Stitts
200 m chest	Kyle Salyards Tom Wilkens	Kristy Kowal (Silver ) Amanda Beard (Bronze )
100 m butterfly	Ian Crocker Tommy Hannan	Dara Torres (bronze ) Jenny Thompson
200 m butterfly	Tom Malchow (Gold ) Michael Phelps	Misty Hyman (Gold ) Kaitlin Sandeno
200 m layers	Tom Dolan (silver ) Tom Wilkens (bronze )	Cristina Teuscher (silver ) Gabrielle Rose
400 m layers	Tom Dolan (Gold ) Erik Vendt (Silver )	Maddy Crippen Kaitlin Sandeno
4 × 100 m freestyle	Anthony Ervin / Gary Hall junior / Jason Lezak / Neil Walker (silver ) Forward: Josh Davis / Anthony Ervin / Jason Lezak / Scott Tucker	Courtney Shealy / Jenny Thompson / Dara Torres / Amy Van Dyken (Gold ) Forward : Erin Phenix / Courtney Shealy / Ashley Tappin / Amy Van Dyken
4 × 200 m freestyle	Josh Davis / Scott Goldblatt / Klete Keller / Jamie Rauch (Silver ) Forward : Chad Carvin / Nate Dusing / Klete Keller / Jamie Rauch	Samantha Arsenault / Lindsay Benko / Diana Munz / Jenny Thompson (Gold ) Vorlauf: Samantha Arsenault / Kim Black / Diana Munz / Julia Stowers
4 × 100 m layers	Ian Crocker / Gary Hall junior / Lenny Krayzelburg / Ed Moses (Gold ) Preliminary: Tommy Hannan / Jason Lezak / Ed Moses / Neil Walker	BJ Bedford / Megan Jendrick / Jenny Thompson / Dara Torres (Gold ) Preliminary: Courtney Shealy / Staciana Stitts / Ashley Tappin / Amy Van Dyken

Note: Ervin and Hall reached the finish line in the men's 50 meter swimming competitions in exactly 21.98 seconds and therefore shared the gold medal. The same applied to the women's swimming competitions over 100 meters, in which Thompson and Torres swam the same time and thus both won bronze.

Synchronized swimming

Carrie Barton , Tammy Cleland-McGregor , Bridget Finn , Anna Kozlova , Kristina Lum , Elicia Marshall , Tuesday Middaugh , Heather Pease-Olson , Kim Wurzel

sailing

• Courtenay Becker-Dey
• Carrie Butler-Beashel
• Paul Foerster (silver )
• Michael Gebhardt
• Sarah Glaser (silver )
• Craig Healy
• JJ Isler (silver )
• Hartwell Jordan
• Magnus Liljedahl (gold )
• John Lovell
• Jeff Madrigali
• Charles McKee (bronze )
• Jonathan McKee (bronze )
• Robert Merrick (silver )
• John Myrdal
• Charlie Ogletree
• Mark Reynolds (Gold )
• Russ Silvestri

Softball

Women (gold )

• Christie Ambrosi
• Laura Berg
• Jennifer Brundage
• Crystl Bustos
• Sheila Cornell-Douty
• Lisa Fernandez
• Lori Harrigan
• Danielle Henderson
• Jennifer McFalls
• Stacey Nuveman
• Leah O'Brien
• Dot Richardson
• Michele Smith
• Michelle Venturella
• Christa Williams

Taekwondo

• Barbara Kunkel
• Steven Lopez (Gold )
• Juan Moreno
• Kay Poe

tennis

Men's

Singles:

• Michael Chang
• Todd Martin
• Vincent Spadea
• Jeff Tarango

Double:

• Alex O'Brien / Jared Palmer

Ladies

Singles:

• Lindsay Davenport
• Monica Seles (bronze )
• Venus Williams (gold )

Double:

• Serena Williams / Venus Williams (Gold )

Table tennis

• Tawny Banh

  Women, singles and doubles

• Yinghua Cheng

  Men, singles and doubles

• Michelle Thu

  Ladies, doubles

• Jasna Fazlić

  Women, singles and doubles

• Gao Jun

  Women, singles and doubles

• Khoa Dinh Nguyen

  Gentlemen, doubles

• Todd Sweeris

  Gentlemen, doubles

• David Zhuang

  Men, singles and doubles

Triathlon

• Ryan Bolton

  Men's

• Hunter Kemper

  Men's

• Nick Radkewich

  Men's

• Jennifer Gutierrez

  Ladies

• Sheila Taormina

  Ladies

• Joanna Pointer

  Ladies

do gymnastics

Gymnastics

Men's

• Morgan Hamm
• Paul Hamm
• Stephen McCain
• John Roethlisberger
• Sean Townsend
• Blaine Wilson

Women (all bronze in the team all-around competition)

• Amy Chow
• Jamie Dantzscher
• Dominique Dawes
• Kristen Maloney
• Elise Ray
• Tasha Schwikert-Warren

Trampoline exercise

• Jennifer Parilla
  • Ladies, singles

volleyball

beach volleyball

Men's

Team 1: Dain Blanton , Eric Fonoimoana (Gold ) Team 2: Robert Heidger , Kevin Wong

Ladies

Team 1: Misty May-Treanor , Holly McPeak Team 2: Annett Davis , Jenny Johnson Jordan

Indoor volleyball

Men's 1 lloy ball 3 Mike Lambert 5 Erik Sullivan 7 John Hyden 9 Ryan Millar 10 Chip McCaw 12 Thomas Hoff 13 Jeff Nygaard 14 Kevin Barnett 15 George Roumain 16 Dan Landry 17 Andy Witt

Ladies 1 Demetria Sance 2 Danielle Scott-Arruda 5 Stacy Sykora 7 Heather Bown 8 Charlene Tagaloa 9 Kerri Walsh 10 Mickisha Hurley 11 Robyn Ah Mow-Santos 13 Tara Cross-Battle 15 Logan Tom 16 Sarah Noriega 18 Allison Weston

Water polo

Men's team Gavin Arroyo Tony Azevedo Ryan Bailey Dan Hackett Chris Humbert Sean Kern Kyle Kopp Chi Kredell Robert Lynn Sean Nolan Chris Oeding Brad Schumacher Wolf Wigo Results Preliminary round  Croatia : 7:10  Yugoslavia : 5: 8  Netherlands : 12: 8  Hungary : 9:10  Greece : 9: 3 Quarter finals  Russia : 10:11 Placement game  Croatia : 9: 8 a.d. Play for 5th place  Italy : 8:10

Women (silver ) team Robin Beauregard Julie Ertel Ellen Estes Courtney Johnson Ericka Lorenz Heather Moody Maureen O'Toole Bernice Orwig Nicole Payne Heather Petri Kathy Sheehy Coralie Simmons Brenda Villa Results Preliminary round  Netherlands : 6: 4  Canada : 8: 8  Russia : 7: 5  Australia : 6: 7  Kazakhstan : 9: 6 Semifinals  Netherlands : 6: 5 final  Australia : 3: 4

Diving

• Michelle Davison

  Ladies

• Troy Dumais

  Men's

• Jenny Keim

  Ladies

• David Pichler

  Men's

• Sara Hildebrand

  Ladies

• Mark Ruiz

  Men's

• Laura Wilkinson (gold )

  Ladies

Web links

• American Olympic team from 2000 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )