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| Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Track events | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 5000 m | men | women |
| 10,000 m | men | women |
| Sprint hurdles | men | women |
| 400 m hurdles | men | women |
| 3000 m steeplechase | men | |
| 4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
| 4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
| Road events | ||
| Marathon | men | women |
| 20 km walk | men | women |
| 50 km walk | men | |
| Field events | ||
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | women |
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | women |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Discus throw | men | women |
| Javelin throw | men | women |
| Hammer throw | men | women |
| Combined events | ||
| Combined | men | women |
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 2134 participating athletes from 193 countries.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 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. Numbers in parenthesis indicate the number of athletes representing each nation.
Medal summary
Men
* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.
Women
* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.
See also
References
- On 2 August 2008 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).
- On 5 October 2007 Marion Jones of the United States admitted to having taken performance enhancing drugs prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics. On 9 October she relinquished her medals to the United States Olympic Committee and on 12 December, the International Olympic Committee formally stripped her of her medals. In 2009, her medals were reawarded as follows
- 100 metres
- not awarded
Ekaterini Thanou 11.12 and 
Tayna Lawrence 11.18- Merlene Ottey 11.19
- 200 metres
Pauline Davis-Thompson 22.27
Susanthika Jayasinghe 22.28- Beverly McDonald 22.35
- Long jump
- ^ On 23 November 2007, the IAAF recommended to the IOC Executive Board to disqualify the USA women's 4x100 m and 4x400 m relay teams after Marion Jones admitted to having taken performance enhancing drugs prior to the Games. On 12 December, the IOC disqualified Jones and stripped her of her relay medals but it did not disqualify the U.S. relay teams. On 10 April 2008, the IOC disqualified both U.S. relay teams and asked for Jones' teammates' medals to be returned. 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, but no medals were redistributed, the IOC opting to leave the medal spots forfeited by the U.S. teams vacant. All members of the U.S. relay teams except Nanceen Perry (and Marion Jones) then appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport who on 16 July 2010 ruled in favor of them due to the fact that, according to the rules at the time, no team should not be disqualified because of a doping offense of one athlete. Their medals were then restored to them.
- The IOC report (page 447 of 548) incorrectly states that Pantelimon finished fourth, despite having an identical jumping record.
External links
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