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.

Athletics at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Host stadium (shown in 2022)
No. of events	46
Competitors	2,134 from 193 nations
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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
	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
	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
			Tayna Lawrence  Jamaica	11.18
200 metres details	Pauline Davis-Thompson[2]  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*[3]	42.20
4 × 400 metres relay details	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 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
					Oana Pantelimon[4]  Romania
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.

See also

• Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Qualification
• Athletics at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
• 2000 in athletics (track and field)