Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics explained

Event:	Athletics
Games:	2000 Summer
Num Events:	46
Nations:	193
Competitors:	2,134
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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.

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.

Medal summary

Men

100 metres		9.87		9.99		10.04
200 metres		20.09		20.14		20.20
400 metres		43.84		44.40		44.70
800 metres		1:45.08		1:45.14		1:45.16
1500 metres		3:32.07 (OR)		3:32:32		3:32.44
5000 metres		13:35.49		13:36.20		13:36.47
10,000 metres		27:18.20		27:18.29		27:19.75
110 metres hurdles		13.00		13.16		13.22
400 metres hurdles		47.50		47.53		47.81
3000 metres steeplechase		8:21.43		8:21.77		8:22.15
4 × 100 metres relay	valign=top	Jon Drummond Bernard Williams Brian Lewis Maurice Greene Tim Montgomery Kenneth Brokenburr	37.61	valign=top	Vicente Lenilson Édson Ribeiro André da Silva Claudinei Quirino Cláudio Souza	37.90	valign=top	Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda Ivan García Freddy Mayola José Ángel César	38.04
4 × 400 metres relay	valign=top	Clement Chukwu Jude Monye Sunday Bada Enefiok Udo-Obong Nduka Awazie Fidelis Gadzama ^[1]	2:58.68	valign=top	Michael Blackwood Greg Haughton Christopher Williams Danny McFarlane Sanjay Ayre Michael McDonald	2:58.78	valign=top	Avard Moncur Troy McIntosh Carl Oliver Chris Brown Timothy Munnings	2:59.23
Marathon		2:10:11		2:10:31		2:11:10
20 kilometres walk		1:18:59 (OR)		1:19:03		1:19:27
50 kilometres walk		3:42:22		3:43:40		3:44:36
High jump		2.35 m		2.32 m		2.32 m
Pole vault		5.90 m		5.90 m		5.90 m
Long jump		8.55 m		8.49 m		8.31 m
Triple jump		17.71 m		17.47 m		17.46 m
Shot put		21.29 m		21.21 m		21.20 m
Discus throw		69.30 m		68.50 m		68.19 m
Hammer throw		80.02 m		79.64 m		79.17 m
Javelin throw		90.17 m (OR)		89.85 m		88.67 m
Decathlon		8642		8606		8595

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

Women

100 metres <	-- The IOC has made it official. There is now a vacancy in the five events. Enter new names once medals are re-awarded. Explanation is in the footnotes. -->	Not awarded^[2]		11.12		11.19
100 metres <		11.18				11.19
200 metres		22.27		22.28 (NR)		22.35
400 metres		49.11		49.58		49.72
800 metres		1:56.15		1:56.64		1:56.80
1500 metres		4:05.10		4:05.15		4:05.27
5000 metres		14:40.79 (OR)		14:41.02 (NR)		14:42.23
10,000 metres		30:17.49 (OR)		30:22.48		30:22.88 (NR)
100 metres hurdles		12.65		12.68		12.76
400 metres hurdles		53.02		53.45		53.57
4 × 100 metres relay	Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Pauline Davis-Thompson Debbie Ferguson Eldece Lewis	41.95	Tayna Lawrence Veronica Campbell Beverly McDonald Merlene Ottey Merlene Frazer	42.13	Chryste Gaines Torri Edwards Nanceen Perry Passion Richardson ^[3]	42.20
4 × 400 metres relay	Jearl Miles Clark Monique Hennagan LaTasha Colander Andrea Anderson	3:22.62	Sandie Richards Catherine Scott Deon Hemmings Lorraine Graham Charmaine Howell Michelle Burgher	3:23.25	Yuliya Sotnikova Svetlana Goncharenko Olga Kotlyarova Irina Privalova Natalya Nazarova Olesya Zykina	3:23.46
Marathon		2:23:14 (OR)		2:23:22		2:24:45
20 kilometres walk		1:29:05 (OR)		1:29:33		1:30:23
High jump		2.01 m		2.01 m		1.99 m
High jump		2.01 m		2.01 m		1.99 m
Pole vault		4.60 m (OR)		4.55 m		4.50 m
Long jump		6.99 m		6.92 m		6.83 m
Triple jump		15.20 m		15.00 m		14.96 m
Shot put		20.56 m		19.92 m		19.62 m
Discus throw		68.40 m		65.71 m		65.20 m
Hammer throw		71.16 m		69.77 m		69.28 m
Javelin throw		68.91 m (OR)		67.51 m		66.18 m
Heptathlon		6584		6531		6527

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

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Notes and 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).http://www.olympic.org/Documents/Commissions_PDFfiles/Executive_Board/2012-06-07-IOC_EB_Decision_Regarding_the_Reallocation_of_the_Medals_and_Diplomas_in_the_mens-4x400m_Relay_Team_2000_Sydney_Games.pdf
[Marion Jones]
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.http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/olympic_news/full_story_uk.asp?id=2536 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.https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/07/16/sports/AP-OLY-ATH-Jones-Medals-Appeal.html?ref=sports Their medals were then restored to them.