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The 2000 Summer Olympics were held in Sydney, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000. 10,651 athletes from 199 National Olympic Committees (NOC) countries participated. The competition was made up of 300 events in 28 sports were held; 165 events were opened to men, 127 were opened to women and 10 were mixed events
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. There were a total number of 2,134 participating athletes from 193 countries.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). "Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games". olympics.com. Archived from the original on 9 November 2000; Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). "Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games" (PDF).
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000. [1] A total of 10,651 athletes from 199 nations represented by National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (with four individual athletes from East Timor because ...
The official mascots chosen for the 2000 Summer Olympics were Syd the platypus, Millie the echidna, and Olly the kookaburra, [43] designed by Matthew Hattan and Jozef Szekeres and named by Philip Sheldon of agency Weekes Morris Osborn in response to the original SOCOG recommendation of Murray, Margery, and Dawn after famous Australian athletes.
It includes top-three placings in the 1896 Olympic Games and 1900 Olympic Games, before medals were actually awarded for those placings. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. For simplicity, when an athlete has won medals for more than one nation, their entry in this list only mentions the last Nation represented.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, she won bronze in the women's 100m dash. [9] Oldest female athletics gold medalist 39 Ellina Zvereva: At the 2000 Summer Olympics, she won gold for the discus throw. [9] Swimming Oldest swimming medalist 41 Dara Torres: Torres won silver for the women's 4x100 freestyle team relay as anchor at the 2008 Summer ...
1.3 2000 Sydney. 1.4 2004 Athens. ... List of Olympic medalists for the United States. ... This is a list of the United States athletes who won an Olympic medal since ...