Kuwait at the 2000 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	KUW
Nocname:	Kuwait Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2000
Website:
Location:	Sydney
Competitors:	29 (all men)
Sports:	6
Flagbearer:	Fawzi Al-Shammari^[1]
Rank:	71
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
See also:	(2016)

Kuwait competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The nation won its first Olympic medal at these Games. 29 competitors, all men, took part in ten events in six sports.^[2]

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Men's 400m

• Fawzi Al Shammari
  1. Round 1 – 46.38 (did not advance)

Men's 4 × 400 m

• Musad Al Azimi, Badar Al Fulaij, Mishal Al Harbi, Fawzi Al Shammari
  1. Round 1 – DQ (did not advance)

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 2000 Summer Olympics. One fencer represented Kuwait in 2000.

Men's foil

• Abdul Muhsen Ali

Football

See main article: Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Men's team competition

Team Roster

• (1.) Shehab Kankune

• (2.) Naser Al-Omran

• (3.) Jamal Mubarak

• (4.) Bader Najem

• (5.) Abdullah Husan

• (6.) Nawaf Humaidan

• (7.) Adel Al-Anezi

• (8.) Naser Al-Othman

• (9.) Bashar Abdulaziz

• (10.) Faraj Saeed

• (11.) Abdullah Saihan

• (12.) Hamad Al-Tayyar

• (13.) Sadoun Salman

• (14.) Khalaf Al-Mutairi

• (15.) Saleh Al-Buraiki

• (16.) Yousef Zayed

• (17.) Esam Al-Kandari

• (18.) Nawaf Al-Khaldi

Group C

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Men's 100m Backstroke

• Faisal Al Mahmeed
  1. Preliminary Heat – 01:05.17 (did not advance)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

• Sultan Altotaibi
  1. Preliminary Heat – 02:16.23 (did not advance)

Taekwondo

See main article: Taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Notes

• 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: Fawzi Al-Shammari . olympedia.org . 31 December 2023.
2. Web site: Kuwait at the 2000 Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417042524/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/KUW/summer/2000/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2012-03-10 . sports-reference.com.