Cameroon at the 2000 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	CMR
Nocname:	Cameroon Olympic and Sports Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2000
Website:
Location:	Sydney
Competitors:	34
Flagbearer:	Cécile Ngambi^[1]
Rank:	50
Gold:	1
Silver:	0
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1964

Cameroon competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The men's football team won the nation's first Olympic gold medal.^[2]

Medalists

See main article: 2000 Summer Olympics medal table.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[3]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics	4	7	11
Boxing	2	–	2
Football	18	0	18
Judo	1	2	3
Total	25	9	34

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Men

Track and road events

Athletes	Events	Heat Round 1		Heat Round 2		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Joseph Batangdon	100 metres	10.45	38 Q	10.52	37	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
Serge Bengono		10.35	20 Q	10.46	34	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
Joseph Batangdon	200 metres	20.70	13 Q	20.55	18	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
Alfred Moussambani Serge Bengono Joseph Batangdon Benjamin Sirimou	4 × 100 metres relay	39.62	24	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance

Women

Track & road events

Athletes	Events	Heat Round 1		Heat Round 2		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Myriam Mani	100 metres	11.24	8 Q	11.23	11 Q	11.40	13	align=center colspan=2	Did not advance
	200 metres	22.68	4 Q	22.88	10 Q	23.47	16	align=center colspan=2	Did not advance
Claudine Komgang	400 metres	51.74	8 Q	51.57	18	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance
Mireille Nguimgo		51.88	14 Q	51.08	11 Q	52.03	14	align=center colspan=2	Did not advance
Esther Mvondo Anne-Marie Mouri-Nkeng Carine Eyenga Françoise Mbango	4 × 100 metres relay	45.82	24	align=center colspan=4	Did not advance

Field events

Boxing

See main article: article and Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Herman Ngoudjo	Bantamweight	L RSC-R3	Did not advance
Sakio Bika Mbah	Light middleweight	L 5–8	Did not advance

Football

See main article: Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

See main article: Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament.

Team rosterHead Coach: Jean-Paul Akono

• Stand-by players

Group play--------

Quarterfinal

Semifinal

Gold medal match

Judo

See main article: article and Judo at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Judith Esseng Abolo	−52 kg	L	Did not advance
Françoise Nguele	−57 kg		L	Did not advance

References

• Book: Higham, James. Sport Tourism Destinations. 2012. Routledge. 978-0-7506-5937-6.
• Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. .
• International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• International Olympic Committee Web Site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cécile Ngambi . olympedia.org . . 23 December 2023.
2. Web site: When Cameroon's Indomitable Lions dominated the Olympics . 7 August 2021 . 7 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210807233840/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/when-cameroons-indomitable-lions-dominated-the-olympics . dead .
3. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/ALG/editions/25 Algeria at the 2000 Summer Olympics