Athletics at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Pictogram for Athletics
No. of events	46
Competitors	2,134 from 193 nations
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Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races
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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


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	7	4	5	16
2	Ethiopia (ETH)	4	1	3	8
3	Poland (POL)	4	0	0	4
4	Russia (RUS)	3	4	6	13
5	Kenya (KEN)	2	3	2	7
6	Cuba (CUB)	2	2	2	6
6	Great Britain (GBR)	2	2	2	6
8	Germany (GER)	2	1	2	5
9	Belarus (BLR)	2	0	3	5
10	Bahamas (BAH)	2	0	1	3
11	Greece (GRE)	1	3	0	4
12	Romania (ROU)	1	2	2	5
13	Australia (AUS)	1	2	0	3
14	Algeria (ALG)	1	1	2	4
15	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	0	2
	Nigeria (NGR)	1	1	0	2
	Norway (NOR)	1	1	0	2
18	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
	Estonia (EST)	1	0	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	1	0	0	1
	Mozambique (MOZ)	1	0	0	1
26	Jamaica (JAM)	0	6	3	9
27	Italy (ITA)	0	2	0	2
28	Morocco (MAR)	0	1	3	4
29	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	2	3
30	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	1	2
30	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	1	1	2
32	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	0	1
	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	1	0	1
	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	1	0	1
39	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	2	2
40	Barbados (BAR)	0	0	1	1
	Iceland (ISL)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (44 entries)		45	47	47	139

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.

Albania (3 athletes)
Algeria (21)
American Samoa (2)
Andorra (2)
Angola (2)
Antigua and Barbuda (2)
Argentina (11)
Armenia (3)
Aruba (2)
Australia (82)
Austria (12)
Azerbaijan (4)
Bahamas (19)
Bahrain (2)
Bangladesh (2)
Barbados (11)
Belarus (31)
Belgium (9)
Belize (2)
Benin (2)
Bermuda (1)
Bolivia (2)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (4)
Botswana (6)
Brazil (18)
British Virgin Islands (1)
Brunei (1)
Bulgaria (22)
Burkina Faso (2)
Burundi (6)
Cambodia (2)
Cameroon (11)
Canada (36)
Cape Verde (2)
Cayman Islands (2)
Central African Republic (2)
Chad (2)
Chile (7)
China (26)
Chinese Taipei (2)
Colombia (11)
Comoros (2)
Republic of the Congo (2)
Cook Islands (1)
Costa Rica (1)
Ivory Coast (8)
Croatia (15)
Cuba (33)
Cyprus (10)
Czech Republic (24)
Denmark (4)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (2)
Djibouti (2)
Dominica (2)
Dominican Republic (2)
Ecuador (3)
Egypt (2)
El Salvador (2)
Equatorial Guinea (2)
Eritrea (3)
Estonia (5)
Ethiopia (24)
Fiji (1)
Finland (23)
France (53)
Gabon (2)
The Gambia (2)
Georgia (2)
Germany (64)
Ghana (18)
Great Britain (72)
Greece (43)
Grenada (2)
Guam (2)
Guatemala (7)
Guinea (2)
Guinea-Bissau (2)
Guyana (4)
Haiti (3)
Honduras (1)
Hong Kong (5)
Hungary (37)
Iceland (6)
India (24)
Individual Olympic Athletes (2)
Indonesia (5)
Iran (1)
Iraq (2)
Ireland (32)
Israel (8)
Italy (47)
Jamaica (43)
Japan (40)
Jordan (2)
Kazakhstan (25)
Kenya (36)
Kuwait (4)
Kyrgyzstan (8)
Laos (2)
Latvia (17)
Lebanon (2)
Lesotho (2)
Liberia (8)
Libya (1)
Lithuania (18)
Macedonia (2)
Madagascar (7)
Malaysia (2)
Malawi (2)
Maldives (2)
Mali (2)
Malta (2)
Mauritania (2)
Mauritius (6)
Mexico (22)
Federated States of Micronesia (2)
Moldova (11)
Mongolia (2)
Morocco (24)
Mozambique (2)
Myanmar (2)
Namibia (6)
Nepal (2)
Netherlands (9)
Netherlands Antilles (2)
Nicaragua (1)
Niger (2)
Nigeria (28)
New Zealand (8)
North Korea (6)
Norway (12)
Oman (4)
Pakistan (2)
Palau (2)
Palestine (1)
Panama (1)
Papua New Guinea (2)
Paraguay (2)
Peru (2)
Philippines (2)
Poland (35)
Portugal (21)
Puerto Rico (8)
Qatar (12)
Romania (23)
Russia (109)
Rwanda (3)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (2)
Saint Lucia (3)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2)
San Marino (1)
São Tomé and Príncipe (2)
Saudi Arabia (11)
Senegal (9)
Seychelles (2)
Sierra Leone (2)
Slovakia (16)
Slovenia (19)
Solomon Islands (2)
Somalia (2)
South Africa (23)
South Korea (13)
Spain (58)
Sri Lanka (13)
Sudan (2)
Suriname (2)
Swaziland (2)
Sweden (14)
Switzerland (13)
Syria (3)
Tajikistan (2)
Tanzania (4)
Thailand (12)
Trinidad and Tobago (15)
Togo (2)
Tonga (2)
Tunisia (9)
Turkey (5)
Turkmenistan (2)
Uganda (5)
Ukraine (54)
United Arab Emirates (1)
United States (116)
Uruguay (4)
Uzbekistan (22)
Vanuatu (2)
Venezuela (6)
Vietnam (2)
Virgin Islands (3)
Yemen (2)
FR Yugoslavia (24)
Zambia (4)
Zimbabwe (8)

Medal summary

Men

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

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Not awarded^[2]		Ekaterini Thanou Greece	11.12	Merlene Ottey Jamaica	11.19
100 metres details	Not awarded^[2]		Tayna Lawrence Jamaica	11.18	Merlene Ottey Jamaica	11.19
200 metres details	Pauline Davis-Thompson^[3] Bahamas	22.27	Susanthika Jayasinghe Sri Lanka	22.28 (NR)	Beverly McDonald Jamaica	22.35
400 metres details	Cathy Freeman Australia	49.11	Lorraine Graham Jamaica	49.58	Katharine Merry Great Britain	49.72
800 metres details	Maria de Lurdes Mutola Mozambique	1:56.15	Stephanie Graf Austria	1:56.64	Kelly Holmes Great Britain	1:56.80
1500 metres details	Nouria Mérah-Benida Algeria	4:05.10	Violeta Beclea Romania	4:05.15	Gabriela Szabo Romania	4:05.27
5000 metres details	Gabriela Szabo Romania	14:40.79 (OR)	Sonia O'Sullivan Ireland	14:41.02 (NR)	Gete Wami Ethiopia	14:42.23
10,000 metres details	Derartu Tulu Ethiopia	30:17.49 (OR)	Gete Wami Ethiopia	30:22.48	Fernanda Ribeiro Portugal	30:22.88 (NR)
100 metres hurdles details	Olga Shishigina Kazakhstan	12.65	Glory Alozie Nigeria	12.68	Melissa Morrison United States	12.76
400 metres hurdles details	Irina Privalova Russia	53.02	Deon Hemmings Jamaica	53.45	Nezha Bidouane Morocco	53.57
4 × 100 metres relay details	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*^[4]	42.20
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) Jearl Miles Clark Monique Hennagan LaTasha Colander Andrea Anderson*^[4]	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 details	Naoko Takahashi Japan	2:23:14 (OR)	Lidia Șimon Romania	2:23:22	Joyce Chepchumba Kenya	2:24:45
20 kilometres walk details	Wang Liping China	1:29:05 (OR)	Kjersti Plätzer Norway	1:29:33	María Vasco Spain	1:30:23
High jump details	Yelena Yelesina Russia	2.01 m	Hestrie Cloete South Africa	2.01 m	Kajsa Bergqvist Sweden	1.99 m
High jump details	Yelena Yelesina Russia	2.01 m	Hestrie Cloete South Africa	2.01 m	Oana Pantelimon^[5] Romania	1.99 m
Pole vault details	Stacy Dragila United States	4.60 m (OR)	Tatiana Grigorieva Australia	4.55 m	Vala Flosadóttir Iceland	4.50 m
Long jump details	Heike Drechsler Germany	6.99 m	Fiona May Italy	6.92 m	Tatyana Kotova Russia	6.83 m
Triple jump details	Tereza Marinova Bulgaria	15.20 m	Tatyana Lebedeva Russia	15.00 m	Olena Hovorova Ukraine	14.96 m
Shot put details	Yanina Karolchik Belarus	20.56 m	Larisa Peleshenko Russia	19.92 m	Astrid Kumbernuss Germany	19.62 m
Discus throw details	Ellina Zvereva Belarus	68.40 m	Anastasía Kelesídou Greece	65.71 m	Iryna Yatchenko Belarus	65.20 m
Hammer throw details	Kamila Skolimowska Poland	71.16 m	Olga Kuzenkova Russia	69.77 m	Kirsten Münchow Germany	69.28 m
Javelin throw details	Trine Hattestad Norway	68.91 m (OR)	Mirela Maniani-Tzelili Greece	67.51 m	Osleidys Menéndez Cuba	66.18 m
Heptathlon details	Denise Lewis Great Britain	6584	Yelena Prokhorova Russia	6531	Natallia Sazanovich Belarus	6527

* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.

References

^ 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).[1]
^
Marion Jones of the United States admitted in 2007 to having taken performance enhancing steroids 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 re-awarded as follows...
100 metres
1. not awarded
2. Ekaterini Thanou 11.12 and Tayna Lawrence 11.18
3. Merlene Ottey 11.19
The IOC did not initially decide to regrade the results, as silver medalist Ekaterini Thanou had herself been subsequently involved in a doping scandal in the run-up to the 2004 Summer Olympics. After two years of deliberation, in late 2009 the IOC decided to upgrade Lawrence and Ottey to silver and bronze respectively, and leave Thanou as a silver medallist, with the gold medal withheld.
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.
^
Marion Jones of the United States admitted in 2007 to having taken performance enhancing steroids 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 re-awarded 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.
^ ^a ^b The IAAF recommended to the IOC Executive Board to disqualify the USA women's 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 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.[2] 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.[3] Their medals were then restored to them.
^ The IOC report (page 447 of 548) incorrectly states that Pantelimon finished fourth, despite having an identical jumping record.

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