Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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 competed as Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

in Sydney
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, Australia
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. British athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games
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The Sydney Games were one of the best performances by Great Britain in the Olympic Games, with British competitors winning a total of 28 medals.

Gold

  • Ben Ainslie
    Ben Ainslie
    Charles Benedict Ainslie, CBE is an English sailor and three-times Olympic gold medalist. He started sailing at the age of 8 and first competed at the age of 10...

     — Sailing, Men's laser class individual competition
  • Stephanie Cook — Modern pentathlon, Women's individual competition
  • Jonathan Edwards
    Jonathan Edwards (athlete)
    Jonathan David Edwards, CBE, is a former British triple jumper. He is a former Olympic, Commonwealth, European and World champion, and has held the world record in the event since 1995....

     — Athletics, Men's triple jump

  • Richard Faulds
    Richard Faulds
    Richard Bruce Faulds MBE , is an English sport shooter, who competed for Great Britain in the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the men's double trap....

     — Target shooting, Men's double trap shotgun

  • Audley Harrison
    Audley Harrison
    Audley Harrison is a British professional boxer from Harlesden, England who fights in the heavyweight division. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney he became the first British fighter to win an Olympic gold medal in the superheavyweight division. He stands and usually weighs around .Harrison turned...

     — Boxing, Men's super heavyweight division

  • Denise Lewis
    Denise Lewis
    Denise Lewis OBE is a retired British athlete who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.-2000 Olympics:...

     — Athletics, Women's heptathlon

  • Iain Percy
    Iain Percy
    Iain Bryden Percy OBE is a British sailor and double Olympic champion.-Sailing competitions:Percy competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he won a gold medal in the Finn class...

     — Sailing, Men's finn class individual competition

  • Jason Queally
    Jason Queally
    Jason Paul Queally is an English track cyclist. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.Born at Great Heywood, Staffordshire, Queally attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he was part of the swimming squad in the mid-1980s, later representing Lancaster and British Universities...

     — Cycling, Men's 1 km time trial

  • Shirley Robertson
    Shirley Robertson
    Shirley Ann Robertson, OBE is a Scottish sailor and Olympic gold medallist. She made it in the history books by becoming the first British woman to win two Olympic gold medals at consecutive games, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004....

     — Sailing, Women's Europe class individual competition

  • James Cracknell
    James Cracknell
    James Cracknell, OBE is a British rowing champion and double Olympic gold medalist and adventurer. Cracknell is married to TV and radio presenter Beverley Turner; they have three children. In the New Year Honours List, 2004, he was appointed OBE for services to sport...

    , Tim Foster
    Tim Foster
    Timothy "Tim" James Carrington Foster MBE is a British rower. He began rowing at Bedford Modern School and competed in the Junior World Rowing Championships in 1987 and 1988. In the latter he competed in a pair with a Matthew Pinsent. He became the first British rower to win gold medals at two...

    , Matthew Pinsent
    Matthew Pinsent
    Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent CBE is an English rower and broadcaster. During his rowing career, he won 10 world championship gold medals and four consecutive Olympic gold medals, of which three were with Steve Redgrave...

    , and Steve Redgrave
    Steve Redgrave
    Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave CBE is an English rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships gold medals...

     — Rowing, Men's coxless four

  • Louis Attrill
    Louis Attrill
    Louis Attrill is a British rower and Olympics gold medallist.Attrill took up rowing at Shanklin Rowing Club on the Isle of Wight and won novice at Milford regatta. The following year he furthered his interest in the sport at Imperial College Boat Club in 1993. Previously he had played rugby and...

    , Simon Dennis
    Simon Dennis
    Simon Dennis MBE is a British rower and Olympic gold medalist.He started rowing at St Paul's School, London, coached by Michael Streat and his first international appearance was in 1994 in the GB eight at the Junior World Rowing Championships, winning a bronze medal...

    , Rowley Douglas
    Rowley Douglas
    Rowley Douglas is a competition rower and Olympic champion for Great Britain.Douglas won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as a member of the British rowing team.-References:...

    , Luka Grubor
    Luka Grubor
    Luka Grubor is a competition rower, born in Zagreb, who competed for Yugoslavia and Croatia, and became Olympic champion for Great Britain....

    , Ben Hunt-Davis
    Ben Hunt-Davis
    Benedict Hunt-Davis was a British competition rower and Olympic Champion.Ben was educated at Shiplake College, Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire...

    , Andrew Lindsay
    Andrew Lindsay
    Andrew Lindsay is a British competition rower and Olympic champion.Lindsay won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as a member of the British rowing team....

    , Fred Scarlett
    Fred Scarlett
    Fred Scarlett is an Olympic gold medalist as a British rower.He took up rowing at The King's School Canterbury, and was Captain of Boats in his final year. At Oxford Brookes University, he won two Henley Royal Regatta medals, in the Temple Challenge Cup, and the Visitors Challenge Cup...

    , Steve Trapmore
    Steve Trapmore
    Stephen Patrick 'Steve' Trapmore is an English competition rower and Olympic champion.Trapmore won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as a member of the British rowing team....

    , and Kieran West
    Kieran West
    Kieran Martin West, MBE is a British rower and Olympic champion.-Education:Born in Kingston upon Thames, West was educated at Dulwich College, in south-east London, before going to Christ's College, Cambridge in 1995, to study for a BA in Economics and Land Economy, followed by a PGCE in...

     — Rowing, Men's Eights

Silver

  • Steve Backley
    Steve Backley
    Stephen James Backley OBE is a retired British athlete who was formerly the world record holder for javelin throwing...

     — Athletics, Men's Javelin

  • Darren Campbell
    Darren Campbell
    Darren Andrew Campbell MBE is a former English sprint athlete. He competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres, as well as the 4 × 100 metres relay...

     — Athletics, Men's 200 m

  • Kate Howey
    Kate Howey
    Kate Louise Howey is a former British judoka, the only British judoka to have competed at four Olympic Games. Howey is also the only British woman to have won two Olympic judo medals...

     — Judo, Women's 70 kg category

  • Chris Hoy
    Chris Hoy
    Sir Christopher Andrew "Chris" Hoy, MBE is a Scottish track cyclist representing Great Britain and Scotland. He is a multiple world champion and Olympic Games gold medal winner...

     and Jason Queally
    Jason Queally
    Jason Paul Queally is an English track cyclist. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.Born at Great Heywood, Staffordshire, Queally attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he was part of the swimming squad in the mid-1980s, later representing Lancaster and British Universities...

     — Cycling, Olympic Sprint

  • Ian Peel
    Ian Peel
    Ian Peel is a sport shooter who has represented Great Britain in the Summer Olympic Games on three occasions....

     — Target Shooting, Olympic Trap

  • Paul Ratcliffe
    Paul Ratcliffe
    Paul Ratcliffe is a British slalom canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-1 event at Sydney in 2000....

     — Canoeing, Men's K1 Slalom

  • Jeanette Brakewell
    Jeanette Brakewell
    Jeanette Brakewell, born 4 February 1974, has been riding since the age of four and is a competitive professional Event Rider.She was a member of both the British silver medal team at the Athens Olympics of 2004, and the silver medal team in the same event at the Summer Olympics in Sydney 2000...

    , Pippa Funnell
    Pippa Funnell
    Pippa Funnell MBE is an equestrian sportswoman, regarded as one of three-day eventing's sporting elite...

    , Leslie Law
    Leslie Law
    Leslie Law is a British eventer, who won the individual gold medal in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. He started riding at age 10, competing with his brother, and participated in his first accredited event in 1982.He attended Lady Hawkins' School, where his passion for riding really shone...

    , and Ian Stark
    Ian Stark
    Ian David Stark is a Scottish equestrian who competes in the sport of eventing. Stark was born in Galashiels in the Borders in 1954 and began riding horses at the age of 10....

     — Equestrian, Three Day Event

  • Guin Batten
    Guin Batten
    Guin Batten is a British rower . She at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the quadruple scull with her elder sister Miriam Batten, Gillian Lindsay and Katherine Grainger....

    , Miriam Batten
    Miriam Batten
    Miriam Batten is a British rower. She won silver at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the quadruple scull with her younger sister Guin Batten and gold at the 1998 World Rowing Championships in the double scull with Gillian Lindsay....

    , Katherine Grainger
    Katherine Grainger
    Katherine Grainger MBE is a Scottish rower.Her family moved to Netherley, Aberdeenshire and Katherine represents Edinburgh's St Andrew Boat Club in rowing events. She trained on the River Dee, which has the distinction of being the only river she has fallen into whilst rowing.She is a three time...

    , and Gillian Lindsay
    Gillian Lindsay
    Gillian Lindsay is a Scottish rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

     — Rowing, Women's Quadruple Sculls

  • Ian Barker
    Ian Barker (sailor)
    Ian Barker is a British sailor. He won a silver medal in the High Performance Dinghy class at the 2000 Summer Olympics with Simon Hiscocks.-References:* at sports-reference.com...

     and Simon Hiscocks
    Simon Hiscocks
    Simon Hiscocks is a British sailor who won a bronze medal for Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the mixed 49er. Hiscocks also won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the same category.-References:...

     — Sailing, Men's 49er Class Team competition
  • Mark Covell
    Mark Covell
    Mark Covell is a Scottish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist. He won a silver medal in the Star class at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, along with Ian Walker.-References:...

     and Ian Walker
    Ian Walker (sailor)
    Ian Walker is one of Britain’s most successful sailors, with two Olympic silver medals to his name. Walker also coached Shirley Robertson and her Yngling Team to gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics...

     — Sailing, Men's Star Class Team competition

Bronze

  • Kate Allenby
    Kate Allenby
    Kate Allenby is a British modern pentathlete who competed in two Summer Olympics .She was born in London.Allenby won a bronze medal in 2000 at Sydney...

     — Modern Pentathlon, Women's Individual Competition
  • Tim Brabants
    Tim Brabants
    Tim Brabants MBE is a British sprint kayaker who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals with one gold and two bronzes .Brabants won the K-1 1000 m European championship at Szeged, Hungary in 2002, the first time a British paddler had...

     — Canoeing, Men's K1 1000 m

  • Kelly Holmes
    Kelly Holmes
    Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...

     — Athletics, Women's 800 m

  • Yvonne McGregor
    Yvonne McGregor
    Yvonne McGregor MBE is an English former professional cyclist from Wibsey. She was made an MBE for services to cycling in the new year's honours list in January 2002.-Palmarès:1994...

     — Cycling, Women's 3.000 m Individual Pursuit

  • Katherine Merry — Athletics, Women's 400 m

  • Simon Archer
    Simon Archer
    Simon Archer is an English badminton player.Archer once held the world record for the fastest smash at 162 mph.-Career:-Summer Olympics:...

     and Joanne Goode
    Joanne Goode
    Joanne Goode is a former English female badminton player.-Career:Goode competed in badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics in mixed doubles with Simon Archer and won a bronze medal...

     — Badminton, Mixed Doubles

  • Jonathon Clay, Rob Hayles
    Rob Hayles
    Robert John Hayles is a track and road racing cyclist, riding for Great Britain and England on the track and his professional team Endura Racing on the road. Hayles rides the team pursuit and madison events....

    , Paul Manning
    Paul Manning (cyclist)
    Paul Christian Manning MBE is a former English professional track and road bicycle racer who rode for the UCI Professional Continental team Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner in 2007 and 2008...

    , Chris Newton
    Chris Newton
    Christopher Malcolm Newton is a successful road and track racing cyclist. Newton is a multiple world champion and Olympian.-Biography:Newton is an alumnus of the University of Teesside in Middlesbrough...

    , Bryan Steel
    Bryan Steel
    Bryan Steel is an English former professional racing cyclist. He represented Great Britain at the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. Steel was born in Nottingham and now lives in Peterborough....

    , and Bradley Wiggins
    Bradley Wiggins
    Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE is a British professional track and road bicycle racer, currently riding for Team Sky. Wiggins' career began on the track, where he specialised in the pursuit and madison disciplines....

     — Cycling, Men's 4.000 m Team Pursuit


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Archery
Archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held at Sydney International Archery Park in Sydney, Australia with ranking rounds on 16 September and regular competition held from 17 September to 20 September...

The three British archers had a combined record of 3-3.
Men's individual
Simon Needham
1/32 eliminations Defeated Ken Uprichard
Ken Uprichard
Kenneth Philip Uprichard is an athlete from New Zealand, who competes in archery.Uprichard competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. In 2000 he placed 48th, and in 2004 he was defeated in the first round of elimination, placing 40th...

 
New Zealand
160-155
1/16 eliminations Lost to Ismely Arias 
Cuba
164-164

Women's individual
Alison Williamson
Alison Williamson
Alison Jane Williamson is an athlete from Great Britain. She competes in archery.Williamson, who is a member of the Long Mynd Archers, has represented Great Britain at five Olympic Games, from 1992-2008....

Vladlena Priestman
1/32 eliminations Defeated Kristina Norlander 
Sweden
156-145 Lost to Cornelia Pfohl
Cornelia Pfohl
Cornelia Pfohl is an Olympic Archer.-1992 Olympics:Pfohl was a member of the 10th place finishing team. She placed 44th in the individual event.-1996 Olympics:...

 
Germany
159-155
1/16 eliminations Defeated Elif Altinkaynak 
Turkey
157-154 - - -
1/8 eliminations Lost to Mi-Jin Yun 
Korea
173-164 - - -

Men's competition

Men's 100 m
  • Darren Campbell
    Darren Campbell
    Darren Andrew Campbell MBE is a former English sprint athlete. He competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres, as well as the 4 × 100 metres relay...

  • Round 1 — 10.28
  • Round 2 — 10.21
  • Semifinal — 10.19
  • Final — 10.13 (→ 6th place)
  • Dwain Chambers
    Dwain Chambers
    Dwain Anthony Chambers is an English sprinter of Afro-Caribbean descent. He has won medals on the international stage numerous times and is one of the fastest European sprinters in the history of recorded athletics. His primary event is the 100 metres sprint, in which he has the second...

  • Round 1 — 10.38
  • Round 2 — 10.12
  • Semifinal — 10.14
  • Final — 10.08 (→ 4th place)
  • Jason Gardener
    Jason Gardener
    Jason Carl Gardener is a retired British sprint athlete, and former World Indoor Champion. Gardener was educated at Beechen Cliff School and the City of Bath College, and went on to graduate from Bath Spa University.-Athletics career:Gardener started his career at the World Junior Championships in...

  • Round 1 — 10.38
  • Round 2 — 10.27 (→ did not advance)


Men's 200 m
  • Christian Malcolm
    Christian Malcolm
    Christian Sean Malcolm is a Welsh athlete, specialising in the 200m.Malcolm was born in Cardiff and resides in Newport, Wales. He won the title of World Junior Athlete of the Year in 1998 and in the 1998 World Junior Championships, he won the 200m in 20.44 seconds...

  • Round 1 — 20.52
  • Round 2 — 20.19
  • Semifinal — 20.19
  • Final — 20.23 (→ 5th place)
  • Darren Campbell
    Darren Campbell
    Darren Andrew Campbell MBE is a former English sprint athlete. He competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres, as well as the 4 × 100 metres relay...

  • Round 1 — 20.71
  • Round 2 — 20.13
  • Semifinal — 20.23
  • Final — 20.14 (→ Silver Medal)
  • Marlon Devonish
    Marlon Devonish
    Marlon Ronald Devonish, MBE is an English sprint athlete.He is a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers athletics club and is coached by Tony Lester. Early in his career he was successful at both 100 and 200 metre distances, winning English Schools and European Junior titles at both, but in recent...

  • Round 1 — 20.89
  • Round 2 — 20.82 (→ did not advance)


Men's 400 m
  • Daniel Caines
    Daniel Caines
    Daniel Stephen Caines is an English athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres.-Early life:He was educated at Solihull School, a British independent school in the affluent West Midlands town of Solihull...

  • Round 1 — 45.39
  • Round 2 — 45.37
  • Semifinal — 45.55 (→ did not advance)
  • Sean Baldock
  • Round 1 — 46.45 (→ did not advance)
  • Jamie Baulch
    Jamie Baulch
    James Steven Baulch , but raised by foster parents in Risca, near Newport, is a British sprint athlete and television presenter. He won the 400 metres gold medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships. As a member of British 4 x 400 metres relay teams, he won a gold medal at the 1997 World...

  • Round 1 — 46.52 (→ did not advance)


Men's 800 m
  • James McIlroy
  • Round 1 — 01:47.44
  • Semifinal — 01:46.39 (→ did not advance)
  • Andrew Hart
    Andrew Hart (athlete)
    Andrew Hart, also referred to as Andy Hart is a retired English middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. His personal best time was 1:45.71 minutes, achieved when he placed fifth at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, his most prestigious championship achievement...

  • Round 1 — 01:48.78 (→ did not advance)


Men's 1,500 m
  • John Mayock
    John Mayock
    John Paul Mayock is a British middle distance runner. He has competed at three Olympic Games, at the 1996 games in Atlanta and the 2000 games in Sydney in the 1500 m and at the 2004 games in Athens in the 5000 m...

  • Round 1 — 03:39.08
  • Semifinal — 03:38.68
  • Final — 03:39.41 (→ 9th place)
  • Andrew Graffin
  • Round 1 — 03:39.75
  • Semifinal — 03:42.72 (→ did not advance)
  • Anthony Whiteman
  • Round 1 — DNF (→ did not advance)


Men's 5,000 m
  • Kristen Bowditch
  • Round 1 — 14:11.65 (→ did not advance)


Men's 10,000 m
  • Karl Keska
    Karl Keska
    Karl Keska is an English long-distance runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres.College: University of Oregon from 1992–1996-Achievements:-Personal bests:*3000 metres - 7:50.04 min...

  • Round 1 — 27:48.29
  • Final — 27:44.09 (→ 8th place)
  • Andres Jones
  • Round 1 — 28:11.20 (→ did not advance)
  • Robert Denmark
  • Round 1 — 28:43.74 (→ did not advance)


Men's 110 m Hurdles
  • Colin Jackson
    Colin Jackson
    Colin Ray Jackson CBE is a British former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. Over his career representing Great Britain and Wales he won an Olympic silver medal, became world champion three times, went undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and...

  • Round 1 — 13.38
  • Round 2 — 13.27
  • Semifinal — 13.34
  • Final — 13.28 (→ 5th place)
  • Damien Greaves
    Damien Greaves
    Damien David Greaves is a sprints and hurdling track and field athlete, who represented Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.-References:*...

  • Round 1 — 14.01
  • Round 2 — 14.08 (→ did not advance)
  • Tony Jarrett
    Tony Jarrett
    Anthony Alexander Jarrett is a former sprint and hurdling athlete from England. He was a sliver medalist in the 110 metres hurdles at the World Championships in 1993 and 1995, and at the European Championships in 1990, and won the gold medal in the event at the Commonwealth Games in 1998.Jarrett...

  • Round 1 — DSQ (→ did not advance)


Men's 400 m Hurdles
  • Matt Douglas
  • Round 1 — 49.62
  • Semifinal — 49.53 (→ did not advance)
  • Anthony Borsumato
  • Round 1 — 50.73 (→ did not advance)
  • Christopher Rawlinson
    Chris Rawlinson
    Christopher Lee Rawlinson is a track and field athlete who competes in the 400 metre hurdles.He also appeared in the 1995 series of the popular TV series Gladiators....

  • Round 1 — 51.3
  • Semifinal — 49.25 (→ did not advance)


Men's 4×100 m Relay
  • Dwain Chambers
    Dwain Chambers
    Dwain Anthony Chambers is an English sprinter of Afro-Caribbean descent. He has won medals on the international stage numerous times and is one of the fastest European sprinters in the history of recorded athletics. His primary event is the 100 metres sprint, in which he has the second...

    , Allyn Condon
    Allyn Condon
    Allyn Condon is an English former sprinter and current bobsleigher. At the Vancouver Olympic Games in 2010 he became the second person to have competed for Great Britain in both the summer and winter Olympic games having already competed in the Sydney Olympics in 2000.-Athletics:Condon has been...

    , Marlon Devonish
    Marlon Devonish
    Marlon Ronald Devonish, MBE is an English sprint athlete.He is a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers athletics club and is coached by Tony Lester. Early in his career he was successful at both 100 and 200 metre distances, winning English Schools and European Junior titles at both, but in recent...

    , and Jason Gardener
    Jason Gardener
    Jason Carl Gardener is a retired British sprint athlete, and former World Indoor Champion. Gardener was educated at Beechen Cliff School and the City of Bath College, and went on to graduate from Bath Spa University.-Athletics career:Gardener started his career at the World Junior Championships in...

  • Round 1 — DSQ (→ did not advance)


Men's 4×400 m Relay
  • Jamie Baulch
    Jamie Baulch
    James Steven Baulch , but raised by foster parents in Risca, near Newport, is a British sprint athlete and television presenter. He won the 400 metres gold medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships. As a member of British 4 x 400 metres relay teams, he won a gold medal at the 1997 World...

    , Daniel Caines
    Daniel Caines
    Daniel Stephen Caines is an English athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres.-Early life:He was educated at Solihull School, a British independent school in the affluent West Midlands town of Solihull...

    , Jared Deacon, and Iwan Thomas
    Iwan Thomas
    Iwan Gwyn Thomas MBE is a sprinter who represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400 m, and Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Thomas is the current UK record holder at 400 m with a time of 44.36 seconds and is a former European and Commonwealth games champion...

  • Round 1 — 03:04.35
  • Semifinal — 03:01.35
  • Final — 03:01.22 (→ 5th place)


Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase
  • Justin Chaston
  • Round 1 — 08:31.01 (→ did not advance)
  • Christian Stephenson
  • Round 1 — 08:46.66 (→ did not advance)


Men's Shot Put
  • Mark Proctor
  • Qualifying — 18.49 (→ did not advance)


Men's Discus
  • Robert Weir
    Robert Weir (athlete)
    Robert Weir is a retired English discus thrower, who is a twelve-time national champion. Weir attended Handsworth Grammar School in Birmingham....

  • Qualifying — 60.01 (→ did not advance)
  • Glen Smith
    Glen Smith (athlete)
    Glen Smith is an English discus thrower.His personal best throw is 65.11 metres, achieved in July 1999 in Barking. This places him third among English discus throwers, behind Perriss Wilkins and Richard Slaney.-Achievements:-References:...

  • Qualifying — 56.22 (→ did not advance)


Men's Javelin Throw
  • Steve Backley
    Steve Backley
    Stephen James Backley OBE is a retired British athlete who was formerly the world record holder for javelin throwing...

  • Qualifying — 83.74
  • Final — 89.85 (→ Silver Medal)
  • Michael Hill
    Mick Hill (athlete)
    Michael Christopher Hill is a former British javelin thrower, who won three silver medals and one bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games, a bronze medal at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics and a silver medal at the 1998 European Championships in Athletics...

  • Qualifying — 82.24
  • Final — 81.00 (→ 11th place)
  • Nick Nieland
    Nick Nieland
    Dr Nicholas Nieland is a British javelin thrower.He was the British number three for many years...

  • Qualifying — 82.12 (→ did not advance)


Men's Triple Jump
  • Jonathan Edwards
    Jonathan Edwards (athlete)
    Jonathan David Edwards, CBE, is a former British triple jumper. He is a former Olympic, Commonwealth, European and World champion, and has held the world record in the event since 1995....

  • Qualifying — 17.08
  • Final — 17.71 (→ Gold Medal)
  • Phillips Idowu
    Phillips Idowu
    Phillips Olaosebikan Idowu MBE is a Nigerian-English triple jumper...

  • Qualifying — 17.12
  • Final — 17.08 (→ 6th place)
  • Onochie Achike
    Onochie Achike
    Onochie Achike is an English athlete of Nigerian origin. He was born in Islington, London.A former rugby player, Achike eventually specialized in triple jump and won the gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games...

  • Qualifying — 17.30
  • Final — 17.29 (→ 5th place)


Men's High Jump
  • Ben Challenger
    Ben Challenger
    Benjamin Arthur "Ben" Challenger is an English high jumper. His personal best jump of 2.30 metres was achieved when he won the 1999 Summer Universiade...

  • Qualifying — 2.15 (→ did not advance)


Men's Pole Vault
  • Kevin Hughes
  • Qualifying — 5.55 (→ did not advance)


Men's 50 km Walk
  • Chris Maddocks
    Chris Maddocks
    Christopher Lloyd Maddocks is a retired race walker from Great Britain, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1984. He retired from international competition after finishing last in the 50 km race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,...

  • Final — 4:52:12 (→ 39th place)


Men's marathon
  • Jon Brown
    Jon Brown
    Jonathan Michael Brown is a former British athlete, now representing Canada. He specialises in the marathon....

  • Final — 2:11:17 (→ 4th place)
  • Keith Cullen
  • Final — 2:16:59 (→ 19th place)
  • Mark Steinle
  • Final — 2:24:42 (→ 56th place)


Men's Decathlon
  • Dean Macey
    Dean Macey
    Dean Macey is an English athlete from Canvey Island. He is best known for competing in the decathlon, which he did from 1995 to 2008, winning World Championship and Commonwealth Games medals, as well as twice finishing fourth in the Olympic Games...

  • 100 m — 10.81
  • Long Jump — 7.77
  • Shot Put — 14.62
  • High Jump — 2.09
  • 400 m — 46.41
  • 100 m Hurdles — 14.53
  • Discus Throw — 43.37
  • Pole Vault — 4.80
  • Javelin Throw — 60.38
  • 1,500 m — 04:23.45
    • Points — 8567.00 (→ 4th place)

Women's Competition

Women's 100 m
  • Joice Maduaka
    Joice Maduaka
    Joice Maduaka is a British athlete who competes over the 100, 200 and occasionally 400 metres. She holds the record for winning the most medals of any athlete at the British Athletics Championships, standing at 19 medals to date, including being the 100m champion 6 times, and the 200m champion...

  • Round 1 — 11.51 (→ did not advance)
  • Shani Anderson
    Shani Anderson
    Shani Anderson was born on 7 August 1975 in St Vincent and was a resident of Catford, London.She competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics in the 4x100m relay and the 100m....

  • Round 1 — 11.55 (→ did not advance)
  • Marcia Richardson
  • Round 1 — 11.62 (→ did not advance)


Women's 200 m
  • Samantha Davies
  • Round 1 — 23.36
  • Round 2 — 23.20 (→ did not advance)
  • Joice Maduaka
    Joice Maduaka
    Joice Maduaka is a British athlete who competes over the 100, 200 and occasionally 400 metres. She holds the record for winning the most medals of any athlete at the British Athletics Championships, standing at 19 medals to date, including being the 100m champion 6 times, and the 200m champion...

  • Round 1 — 23.36
  • Round 2 — 23.57 (→ did not advance)


Women's 400 m
  • Donna Fraser
    Donna Fraser
    Donna Karen Fraser in Thornton Heath, Croydon is an English athlete who mainly competed in the 200 and 400 metres.-Career:...

  • Round 1 — 52.33
  • Round 2 — 50.77
  • Semifinal — 50.21
  • Final — 49.79 (→ 4th place)
  • Allison Curbishley
    Allison Curbishley
    Allison Curbishley is a former British athlete from Teesside but who represented Scotland. She specialised in the 400m. A play scheme in the summer holiday when she was ten years old got Curbishley interested in sport and although athletics was the sport she eventually chose she also reached...

  • Round 1 — 52.20
  • Round 2 — 52.50 (→ did not advance)
  • Katharine Merry
    Katharine Merry
    Katharine Merry is a former English female sprinter.-Career:A member of the Birchfield Harriers athletics club, Merry won a bronze medal in the 400 metre sprint at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.Merry had a career that spanned 20 years. Aged 12 she topped the UK Under 13 Rankings in...

  • Round 1 — 51.61
  • Round 2 — 50.50
  • Semifinal — 50.32
  • Final — 49.72 (→ Bronze Medal)


Women's 800 m
  • Kelly Holmes
    Kelly Holmes
    Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...

  • Round 1 — 02:01.76
  • Semifinal — 01:58.45
  • Final — 01:56.80 (→ Bronze Medal)
  • Diane Modahl
    Diane Modahl
    Diane Modahl, née Edwards is an English former middle distance runner.Originally from Manchester, of Jamaican parents, she was 800 m champion in the Commonwealth Games of 1990. She competed in four Olympic Games: 1988 in Seoul, 1992 in Barcelona, 1996 in Atlanta, and 2000 in Sydney...

  • Round 1 — 02:02.41 (→ did not advance)


Women's 1,500 m
  • Helen Pattinson
  • Round 1 — 04:08.80
  • Semifinal — 04:09.60 (→ did not advance)
  • Kelly Holmes
    Kelly Holmes
    Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...

  • Round 1 — 04:10.38
  • Semifinal — 04:05.35
  • Final — 04:08.02 (→ 7th place)
  • Hayley Tullett
    Hayley Tullett
    Hayley Tullett is a Welsh middle distance runner mainly competing over 1500 metres. Her main claim to fame is the bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships...

  • Round 1 — 04:10.58
  • Semifinal — 04:05.34
  • Final — 04:22.29 (→ 11th place)


Women's 5,000 m
  • Jo Pavey
    Jo Pavey
    Joanne Pavey is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for Great Britain. She competes mainly in the 5000 metres distance but also on 1500 metres, 3000 metres and 10,000 metres events, and road racing. In 2006 she won silver in the 5000 m in the Commonwealth Games...

  • Round 1 — 15:08.82
  • Final — 14:58.27 (→ 12th place)
  • Andrea Whitcombe
  • Round 1 — 16:15.82 (→ did not advance)


Women's 10,000 m
  • Paula Radcliffe
    Paula Radcliffe
    Paula Jane Radcliffe, MBE is an English long-distance runner. She is the current women's world record holder in the marathon with her time of 2:15:25 hours...

  • Round 1 — 32:34.73
  • Final — 30:26.97 (→ 4th place)


Women's 100 m Hurdles
  • Diane Allahgreen
    Diane Allahgreen
    Diane Allahgreen is a former British Olympic sprint hurdler.She won a bronze medal in the 60 m hurdles at the 1998 European Indoor Athletics Championships in Valencia and represented Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics and England at the 2002 Commonwealth GamesShe retired from competition in...

  • Round 1 — 13.11
  • Round 2 — 13.22 (→ did not advance)


Women's 400 m Hurdles
  • Natasha Danvers
  • Round 1 — 55.68
  • Semifinal — 54.95
  • Final — 55.00 (→ 8th place)
  • Sinead Dudgeon
  • Round 1 — 57.82 (→ did not advance)
  • Keri Maddox
  • Round 1 — 57.44 (→ did not advance)


Women's 4×100 m Relay
  • Shani Anderson
    Shani Anderson
    Shani Anderson was born on 7 August 1975 in St Vincent and was a resident of Catford, London.She competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics in the 4x100m relay and the 100m....

    , Samantha Davies
    Samantha Davies
    Samantha Davies is a British yachtswoman. She has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from St John's College, Cambridge.-Biography:...

    , Joice Maduaka
    Joice Maduaka
    Joice Maduaka is a British athlete who competes over the 100, 200 and occasionally 400 metres. She holds the record for winning the most medals of any athlete at the British Athletics Championships, standing at 19 medals to date, including being the 100m champion 6 times, and the 200m champion...

    , Marcia Richardson, and Sarah Wilhelmy
  • Round 1 — 43.26
  • Semifinal — 43.19 (→ did not advance)


Women's 4×400 m Relay
  • Allison Curbishley
    Allison Curbishley
    Allison Curbishley is a former British athlete from Teesside but who represented Scotland. She specialised in the 400m. A play scheme in the summer holiday when she was ten years old got Curbishley interested in sport and although athletics was the sport she eventually chose she also reached...

    , Natasha Danvers, Donna Fraser
    Donna Fraser
    Donna Karen Fraser in Thornton Heath, Croydon is an English athlete who mainly competed in the 200 and 400 metres.-Career:...

    , Helen Frost, and Katharine Merry
    Katharine Merry
    Katharine Merry is a former English female sprinter.-Career:A member of the Birchfield Harriers athletics club, Merry won a bronze medal in the 400 metre sprint at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.Merry had a career that spanned 20 years. Aged 12 she topped the UK Under 13 Rankings in...

  • Round 1 — 03:25.28
  • Final — 03:25.67 (→ 6th place)


Women's 800 m Wheelchair
  • Tanni Grey-Thompson
    Tanni Grey-Thompson
    Carys Davina "Tanni" Grey-Thompson, Baroness Grey-Thompson, DBE is a Welsh athlete and TV presenter.Grey-Thompson was born with spina bifida and uses a wheelchair. She is considered to be one of the most successful disabled athletes in the UK...

  • Final — 01:56.86 (→ 4th place)


Women's Shot Put
  • Judy Oakes
    Judy Oakes
    Judith Miriam Oakes is a retired English shot putter. She was given an Order of the British Empire in 1999....

  • Qualifying — 17.81 (→ did not advance)


Women's Hammer Throw
  • Lorraine Shaw
    Lorraine Shaw
    Lorraine Shaw is an English hammer thrower. Her personal best throw is 68.93 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Loughborough. This is the British record.-Achievements:-References:* at Sporting Heroes...

  • Qualifying — 63.21
  • Final — 64.27 (→ 9th place)


Women's Long Jump
  • Jo Wise
  • Qualifying — 6.59 (→ did not advance)


Women's Triple Jump
  • Ashia Hansen
    Ashia Hansen
    Ashia Hansen, MBE was a British triple jumper who competed internationally from 1994-2008.-Early life:...

  • Qualifying — 14.29
  • Final — 13.44 (→ 11th place)


Women's Pole Vault
  • Janine Whitlock
    Janine Whitlock
    Janine Whitlock is an English pole vaulter.Her personal best is 4.47 metres, achieved in July 2005 at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, in the same meet that Yelena Isinbayeva became the first woman to clear 5 metres....

  • Qualifying — 4.15 (→ did not advance)


Women's 20 km Walk
  • Lisa Kehler
    Lisa Langford
    Lisa Martine Kehler is a female race walker from England, who twice competed for Great Britain at the Summer Olympics . She later competed 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi....

  • Final — 1:37:47 (→ 33rd place)


Women's Marathon
  • Marian Sutton
  • Final — 2:34:33 (→ 26th place)


Women's Heptathlon
  • Denise Lewis
    Denise Lewis
    Denise Lewis OBE is a retired British athlete who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.-2000 Olympics:...

  • 100 m Hurdles — 13.23
  • High Jump — 1.75
  • Shot Put — 15.55
  • 200 m — 24.34
  • Long Jump — 6.48
  • Javelin Throw — 50.19
  • 800 m — 02:16.83
  • Points — 6584 (→ Gold Medal)

Badminton
Badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Badminton was held at The Dome and Exhibition Complex at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney from September 17–23, 2000. The competition included five events ....

Men's Singles
  • Peter Knowles
  • Round of 64: Bye
  • Round of 32: Lost to Ong Ewe Hock
    Ong Ewe Hock
    Ong Ewe Hock is a former Malaysian Chinese badminton singles player whose prime years were in the 1990s. He is best known for his fighting spirit and his fast game play.-Achievements:...

     of Malaysia
  • Richard Vaughan
    Richard Vaughan (badminton)
    Richard Vaughan is a Welsh badminton player from Llanbradach, Caerphilly, Wales. Vaughan is currently the Chief Executive of Badminton Ireland and has a MBA from Leicester University; MA Sports Development from Bath University, having previously achieved a BSc in Economics and Politics.Vaughan...

  • Round of 64: Defeated Boonsak Ponsana
    Boonsak Ponsana
    Boonsak Ponsana is a male badminton player from Thailand.His younger sister Salakjit Ponsana is also part of the Thailand badminton team.-Career:...

     of Thailand
  • Round of 32: Defeated Rasmus Wengberg
    Rasmus Wengberg
    Rasmus Wengberg is a Swedish badminton player who was bronze medalist in the 2002 European Championships in Malmö.Born and raised in Skåne, Wengberg played until 2005 for IFK umeå...

     of Sweden
  • Round of 16: Lost to Sun Jun
    Sun Jun (badminton)
    Sun Jun is a former world number 1 singles badminton player from China in the late 1990s whose resume includes the World Championship, World Cup, Asian Championship and All England Men's Singles titles...

     of China


Men's Doubles
  • Julian Robertson, Peter Knowles
  • Round of 32: Defeated Denis Constantin, Edouard Clarisse of Mauritius
  • Round of 16: Lost to Lee Dong-soo
    Lee Dong-soo
    Lee Dong-soo is a former male badminton player from South Korea.-Competition:Lee competed for Korea in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Yoo Yong-sung. They defeated José Antonio Crespo and Sergio Llopis of Spain in the first round and Luluk Hadiyanto and Alvent...

    , Yoo Yong-sung
    Yoo Yong-sung
    Yoo Yong-sung is a male badminton player from South Korea.Yoo competed for Korea in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Lee Dong-soo. They defeated José Antonio Crespo and Sergio Llopis of Spain in the first round and Luluk Hadiyanto and Alvent Yulianto of...

     of Korea
  • Simon Archer
    Simon Archer
    Simon Archer is an English badminton player.Archer once held the world record for the fastest smash at 162 mph.-Career:-Summer Olympics:...

    , Nathan Robertson
    Nathan Robertson
    Nathan James Robertson is an English badminton player who has achieved international success in both the men's events and the mixed doubles event...

  • Round of 32: Bye
  • Round of 16: Defeated Michal Logosz
    Michal Logosz
    Michał Andrzej Łogosz is a male badminton player from Poland. He was named Best Sportsman in Plock in 1995.-Career:...

    , Robert Mateusiak
    Robert Mateusiak
    Robert Bogumił Mateusiak is a male badminton player from Poland.-Career:Mateusiak competed in badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics, both times in men's doubles with partner Michał Łogosz....

     of Poland
  • Quarterfinal: Lost to Tony Gunawan
    Tony Gunawan
    Tony Gunawan is an Indonesian born badminton player of Chinese descent.-Career:Gunawan is a former Olympic gold medalist and world champion for Indonesia, and now represents the United States. He is regarded by many, including his peers, as one of the greatest doubles players badminton's history...

    , Candra Wijaya
    Candra Wijaya
    -Career:Wijaya is a doubles specialist who, as of 2008, has rated among the best men's doubles players in the world for over a decade. Noted for his ability in all phases of the doubles game, he has reached the final of the BWF World Championships three times with countryman Sigit Budiarto. They...

     of Indonesia


Women's Singles
  • Kelly Morgan
    Kelly Morgan
    Kelly Morgan is a Welsh Commonwealth and Olympic Games badminton player born in Pontypridd.Morgan attended Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive school in Beddau, Wales.- 1996 Olympics :...

  • Round of 64: Defeated Apama Popat of India
  • Round of 32: Defeated Wai Chee Louisa Koon of Hong Kong
  • Round of 16: Lost to Camilla Martin
    Camilla Martin
    Camilla Martin Nygaard née Martin is a retired badminton player from Denmark. She and Lene Køppen, who played two decades earlier, are the only Danish women to have won both the All-England and World singles titles....

     of Denmark
  • Julia Mann
  • Round of 64: Defeated Amrita Sawaram of Mauritius
  • Round of 32: Defeated Maja Pohar of Slovenia
  • Round of 16: Lost to Yasuko Mizui of Japan


Women's Doubles
  • Sarah Hardaker, Joanne Davies
  • Round of 32: Defeated Deyana Gresye S. Lomban, Nathanael Elysa of Indonesia
  • Round of 16: Lost to Ra Kyung-min
    Ra Kyung-min
    Ra Kyung-min is a female badminton player from South Korea.Ra was a dominating mixed doubles team with her partner Kim Dong-moon from late 1990s to early 2000s, resulting 70-match winning streak and 14 consecutive titles in international tournaments.- Career :Ra competed for Korea in badminton at...

    , Jae Hee Chung of Korea
  • Joanne Goode
    Joanne Goode
    Joanne Goode is a former English female badminton player.-Career:Goode competed in badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics in mixed doubles with Simon Archer and won a bronze medal...

    , Donna Kellogg
    Donna Kellogg
    Donna Victoria Kellogg MBE is an English badminton player. She first played badminton at the age of 10.-Career:Her first representative match for England was against China at the World Championships 1997 in Scotland...

  • Round of 32: Bye
  • Round of 16: Defeated Milaine Cloutier
    Milaine Cloutier
    Milaine Cloutier is a female badminton player from Canada, who won the gold medal in the women's doubles competition at the 1999 Pan American Games alongside Robbyn Hermitage. A resident of Calgary, Alberta, she represented Canada at the 2000 Summer Olympics.-References:*...

    , Robbyn Hermitage
    Robbyn Hermitage
    Robbyn Hermitage is a female badminton player from Canada, who won the gold medal in the women's doubles competition at the 1999 Pan American Games alongside Milaine Cloutier. She also took away silver from that tournament, won in the mixed doubles competition partnering Brent Olynyk...

     of Canada
  • Quarterfinal: Lost to Qin Yiyuan
    Qin Yiyuan
    Qin Yiyuan is a Chinese former world level women's badminton player.-Career:A doubles specialist, Qin played internationally for China from the mid 1990s through the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, a period during which her fellow countrywomen Ge Fei and Gu Jun dominated international women's doubles...

    , Gao Ling
    Gao Ling
    Gao Ling is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:Noted for her consistency, anticipation, forecourt prowess, and sporting smile, Gao is unarguably, to many fans, the most successful doubles specialists in the history of women's badminton. In addition, she earned...

     of China


Mixed Doubles
  • Chris Hunt
    Chris Hunt (badminton)
    -Career:Hunt won the gold medal at the European Badminton Championships in men's doubles with Simon Archer in 1994 and 1998. In 1996 they won the bronze medal....

    , Donna Kellogg
    Donna Kellogg
    Donna Victoria Kellogg MBE is an English badminton player. She first played badminton at the age of 10.-Career:Her first representative match for England was against China at the World Championships 1997 in Scotland...

  • Round of 32: Lost to Bambang Suprianto
    Bambang Suprianto
    Bambang Suprianto is a retired male badminton player from Indonesia.-Career:A durable all around player who won singles at the Singapore Open in 1991, Suprianto's greatest success came in doubles events. In the mid 1990s he and fellow countryman Rudy Gunawan formed one of the world's leading men's...

    , Zelin Resiana of Indonesia
  • Joanne Goode
    Joanne Goode
    Joanne Goode is a former English female badminton player.-Career:Goode competed in badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics in mixed doubles with Simon Archer and won a bronze medal...

    , Simon Archer
    Simon Archer
    Simon Archer is an English badminton player.Archer once held the world record for the fastest smash at 162 mph.-Career:-Summer Olympics:...

  • Round of 32: Defeated Robbyn Hermitage
    Robbyn Hermitage
    Robbyn Hermitage is a female badminton player from Canada, who won the gold medal in the women's doubles competition at the 1999 Pan American Games alongside Milaine Cloutier. She also took away silver from that tournament, won in the mixed doubles competition partnering Brent Olynyk...

    , Brent Olynyk
    Brent Olynyk
    Brent Olynyk is a badminton player from Canada, who won the gold medal in the men's doubles competition at the 1999 Pan American Games alongside Iain Sydie. He also took away silver from that tournament, won in the mixed doubles competition partnering Robbyn Hermitage...

     of Canada
  • Round of 16: Defeated Jon Holst-Christensen
    Jon Holst-Christensen
    Jon Holst-Christensen is a retired male badminton player from Denmark.-Summer Olympics:Jon Holst-Christensen competed in badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with Thomas Lund...

    , Ann Jorgensen of Denmark
  • Quarterfinal: Defeated Chris Bruil
    Chris Bruil
    Christiaan "Chris" Gerrit Herman Bruil is a male badminton player from the Netherlands.Bruil competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed double's with partner Lotte Bruil-Jonathans, who is his wife. They had a bye in the first round and were defeated by Kim Dong-moon and Ra...

    , Erica van den Heuvel of Netherlands
  • Semifinal: Lost to Tri Kusharyanto, Minarti Timur
    Minarti Timur
    -Career:Though she won women's singles at the 1990 Dutch Open, Minarti was primarily a doubles player, particularly excelling in mixed doubles. During the 1990s and the early 2000s, she won numerous international mixed doubles titles; the majority with Tri Kusharjanto but also, later, with Bambang...

     of Indonesia
  • Bronze medal match: Defeated Michal Sogaard, Rikke Olsen
    Rikke Olsen
    -2004 Summer Olympics:Olsen competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Ann-Lou Jørgensen. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Nicole Grether and Juliane Schenk of Germany in the second...

     of Denmark — Bronze medal

Boxing
Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was held over a period of sixteen days at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour...

Men's 81 kg
  • Courtney Fry
    • Round 1 — Lost to Charles Adamu
      Charles Adamu
      Charles Adamu is a Ghanain professional boxer fighting in the super middleweight division. As an amateur he represented Ghana in the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games winning a bronze medal and in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games reaching the second round...

       of Ghana (did not advance)


Men's +91 kg
  • Audley Harrison
    Audley Harrison
    Audley Harrison is a British professional boxer from Harlesden, England who fights in the heavyweight division. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney he became the first British fighter to win an Olympic gold medal in the superheavyweight division. He stands and usually weighs around .Harrison turned...

    • Round 1 — Bye
    • Round 2 — Defeated Alexey Lezin of Russia
    • Quarterfinal — Defeated Oleksii Mazikin of Ukraine
    • Semifinal — Defeated Paolo Vidoz
      Paolo Vidoz
      Paolo Vidoz is a boxer from Italy, who won the Olympic bronze medal, twice won the bronze medal at the World Amateur Boxing Championships: 1997 and 1999 and also won a silver medal at the European Championships....

       of Italy
    • Final — Defeated Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov
      Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov
      Mukhtarkhan Koblanbekovich Dildabekov is a Kazakh boxer, best known to win the silver medal in the Super Heavyweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics.-Career:...

       of Kazakhstan — Gold medal

Men's competition

Men's Kayak Singles 500 m
  • Ian Wynne
    Ian Wynne
    Ian Wynne is a British sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event at Athens in 2004....

  • Qualifying Heat — 01:42.779
  • Semifinal — 01:41.486 (did not advance)


Men's Kayak Singles 1000 m
  • Tim Brabants
    Tim Brabants
    Tim Brabants MBE is a British sprint kayaker who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals with one gold and two bronzes .Brabants won the K-1 1000 m European championship at Szeged, Hungary in 2002, the first time a British paddler had...

  • Qualifying Heat — 03:36.903
  • Semifinal — 03:37.205
  • Final — 03:35.057 (Bronze medal)


Men's Kayak Doubles 500 m
  • Paul Darby-Dowman
    Paul Darby-Dowman
    Paul Darby-Dowman is a British sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of seventh in the K-2 1000 m event at Athens in 2004.-Reference:*...

    , Ross Sabberton
    Ross Sabberton
    Ross Sabberton is a British sprint canoer who competed in the early 2000s. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-2 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events.-References:*...

  • Qualifying Heat — 01:32.782
  • Semifinal — 01:33.173 (did not advance)


Men's Kayak Doubles 1,000 m
  • Paul Darby-Dowman
    Paul Darby-Dowman
    Paul Darby-Dowman is a British sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of seventh in the K-2 1000 m event at Athens in 2004.-Reference:*...

    , Ross Sabberton
    Ross Sabberton
    Ross Sabberton is a British sprint canoer who competed in the early 2000s. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-2 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events.-References:*...

  • Qualifying Heat — 03:19.392
  • Semifinal — 03:19.826 (did not advance)


Men's Canoe Doubles 500 m
  • Andrew Train
    Andrew Train
    Andrew Train is a British sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1980s to the early 2000s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two silvers , and five bronzes .Train also competed in five Summer Olympics, earning his best...

    , Stephen Train
    Stephen Train
    Stephen Train is a British sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1980s to the early 2000s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two silvers , and four bronzes .Train also competed in five Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice Stephen Train (born...

  • Qualifying Heat — 01:46.986
  • Semifinal — 01:49.931 (did not advance)


Men's Canoe Doubles 1,000 m
  • Andrew Train
    Andrew Train
    Andrew Train is a British sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1980s to the early 2000s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two silvers , and five bronzes .Train also competed in five Summer Olympics, earning his best...

    , Stephen Train
    Stephen Train
    Stephen Train is a British sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1980s to the early 2000s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two silvers , and four bronzes .Train also competed in five Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice Stephen Train (born...

  • Qualifying Heat — 03:39.599
  • Semifinal — 03:45.624 (did not advance)

Women's competition

Women's Kayak Singles 500 m
  • Anna Hemmings
    Anna Hemmings
    Anna Lucina Hemmings MBE is a British marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s and 2000s, winning six world championship gold medals....

  • Qualifying Heat — 01:59.190
  • Semifinal — 01:59.664 (did not advance)

Men's competition

Men's Kayak Singles
  • Paul Ratcliffe
    Paul Ratcliffe
    Paul Ratcliffe is a British slalom canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-1 event at Sydney in 2000....

  • Qualifying — 253.69
  • Final — 223.71 (Silver medal)


Men's Canoe Singles
  • Stuart McIntosh
    Stuart McIntosh
    Stuart McIntosh is a British slalom canoeist who competed in the 2000s. Winning many World Cup Series medals, including a silver medal at the 2004 World Cup Final at Bourg st.Maurice, France...

  • Qualifying — 274.39
  • Final — 243.61 (8th place)


Men's Canoe Doubles
  • Stuart Bowman, Nick Smith
    Nick Smith (canoer)
    Nick Smith is a British slalom canoer who competed from 2000 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of fourth in the C-2 event at Sydney in 2000.-Reference:*...

  • Qualifying — 280.60
  • Final — 249.93 (4th place)

Women's competition

Women's Kayak Singles
  • Laura Blakeman
    Laura Blakeman
    Laura Blakeman is a British slalom canoeist who has competed since the early 2000s. She won five medals in the K-1 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold , a silver and three bronzes .Blakeman also finished 12th in the K-1 event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in...

  • Qualifying — 311.47
  • Final — 273.71 (12th place)

Cross Country Mountain Bike

Men's Cross Country Mountain Bike
  • Oliver Beckingsale
  • Final — 2:18:17.01 (23rd place)
  • Nick Craig
    Nick Craig
    Nicholas Ian Craig is a professional racing cyclist specialising in cross country mountain bike racing and cyclo-cross, and a multiple national champion.-Cyclo-cross:199419951996199819992002200420052007-MTB:...

  • Final — 2:20:00.27 (25th place)


Women's Mountain Bike
  • Caroline Alexander
    Caroline Alexander
    Caroline Alexander is a cross country mountain biker and road cyclist born in Barrow in Furness, Lancashire. She represented Great Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...

  • Final — 1:56:50.62 (12th place)
  • Louise Robinson
  • Final — 1:59:23.27 (15th place)

Men's competition

Men's Individual Time Trial
  • Chris Boardman
    Chris Boardman
    Christopher "Chris" Boardman MBE is a former English racing cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times, as well as winning three stages and wearing the yellow jersey on three separate occasions at the Tour de France...

  • Final — 0:59:32 (11th place)
  • David Millar
    David Millar
    David Millar is a British road racing cyclist riding for . He has won three stages of the Tour de France, two of the Vuelta a España and one Stage of the Giro d'Italia. He was the British national road champion and the national time trial champion, both in 2007...

  • Final — 1:00:17 (16th place)


Men's Road Race
  • Maximilian Sciandri
  • Final — 5:30:46 (35th place)
  • John Tanner
    John Tanner (cyclist)
    John Tanner is a British racing cyclist from Yorkshire. He competed in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games.He has won the season-long British Cycling Premier Calendar five times.-Palmarés:1992199419951997...

  • Final — 5:30:46 (38th place)
  • Rob Hayles
    Rob Hayles
    Robert John Hayles is a track and road racing cyclist, riding for Great Britain and England on the track and his professional team Endura Racing on the road. Hayles rides the team pursuit and madison events....

  • Final — DNF
  • Jeremy Hunt
    Jeremy Hunt (cyclist)
    Jeremy Hunt is a British road racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team . He is mainly a sprinter. Hunt was the British national road race champion in 1997 and in 2001....

  • Final — DNF
  • Nick Craig
    Nick Craig
    Nicholas Ian Craig is a professional racing cyclist specialising in cross country mountain bike racing and cyclo-cross, and a multiple national champion.-Cyclo-cross:199419951996199819992002200420052007-MTB:...

  • Final — DNF

Women's competition

Women's Individual Time Trial
  • Ceris Gilfillan
  • Final — 0:44:29 (14th place)
  • Yvonne McGregor
    Yvonne McGregor
    Yvonne McGregor MBE is an English former professional cyclist from Wibsey. She was made an MBE for services to cycling in the new year's honours list in January 2002.-Palmarès:1994...

  • Final — 0:44:37.09 (17th place)


Women's Road Race
  • Sara Symington
    Sara Symington
    Sara Symington is an English professional cyclist, she was a member of the triathlon national team prior to becoming a full-time cyclist. She represented Great Britain at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. Symington was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, she now lives in Aylestone,...

  • Final — 3:06:31 (10th place)
  • Yvonne McGregor
    Yvonne McGregor
    Yvonne McGregor MBE is an English former professional cyclist from Wibsey. She was made an MBE for services to cycling in the new year's honours list in January 2002.-Palmarès:1994...

  • Final — 3:06:31 (24th place)
  • Ceris Gilfillan
  • Final — 3:06:37 (27th place)

Men's competition

Men's Sprint
  • Craig MacLean
    Craig MacLean
    Craig MacLean is a Scottish track cyclist who has represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, winning a Silver Medal in the Team Sprint at the 2000 Olympics....

    • Qualifying — 10.459
    • Repechage — 1st place — Heat 2
    • First Round — Lost to Jose Villanueva
      José Villanueva
      José Luis Villanueva was an amateur boxer from the Philippines who represented his country at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics...

       of Spain
    • 1/8 Finals — Lost to Laurent Gané
      Laurent Gané
      Laurent Gané is a French professional track cyclist.He was awarded the Vélo d'Or français, which is awarded by a panel of French journalists, in 1999 and 2003.Gané is also the cousin of cyclist Hervé Gané....

       of France
    • Quarterfinal — Lost to Marty Nothstein
      Marty Nothstein
      Martin "Marty" Wayne Nothstein is an American professional road bicycle racer and track cyclist. He is a 3-time world champion in track events and an Olympic gold and silver medalist.-Early life:...

       of United States
    • 1/8 Finals Repechage — 1st place — Heat 2
    • Finals 5-8 — 8th place


Men's Individual Pursuit
  • Rob Hayles
    Rob Hayles
    Robert John Hayles is a track and road racing cyclist, riding for Great Britain and England on the track and his professional team Endura Racing on the road. Hayles rides the team pursuit and madison events....

    • Qualifying — 04:20.996
    • Semifinal — Lost to Jens Lehmann
      Jens Lehmann (cyclist)
      Jens Lehmann is a German professional cyclist and double Olympic champion. Despite his many successes , he will probably be remembered best as the person caught by Chris Boardman riding the revolutionary 'Lotus Superbike,...

       of Germany
    • Final — Lost to Brad McGee of Australia


Men's 1 km Time Trial
  • Jason Queally
    Jason Queally
    Jason Paul Queally is an English track cyclist. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.Born at Great Heywood, Staffordshire, Queally attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he was part of the swimming squad in the mid-1980s, later representing Lancaster and British Universities...

    • Final — 01:01.609 (Gold medal)


Men's Point Race
  • Jonny Clay
    • Points — 10
    • Laps Down — 2 (13th place)


Men's Keirin
  • Chris Hoy
    Chris Hoy
    Sir Christopher Andrew "Chris" Hoy, MBE is a Scottish track cyclist representing Great Britain and Scotland. He is a multiple world champion and Olympic Games gold medal winner...

    • First Round — Heat — 2; Place — 4
    • Repechage — Heat — 3; DNF (did not advance)


Men's Olympic Sprint
  • Chris Hoy
    Chris Hoy
    Sir Christopher Andrew "Chris" Hoy, MBE is a Scottish track cyclist representing Great Britain and Scotland. He is a multiple world champion and Olympic Games gold medal winner...

    , Craig MacLean
    Craig MacLean
    Craig MacLean is a Scottish track cyclist who has represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, winning a Silver Medal in the Team Sprint at the 2000 Olympics....

    , Jason Queally
    Jason Queally
    Jason Paul Queally is an English track cyclist. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.Born at Great Heywood, Staffordshire, Queally attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he was part of the swimming squad in the mid-1980s, later representing Lancaster and British Universities...

    • Qualifying — 44.659
    • Second Round — 44.517
    • Final — 44.680 (Silver medal)


Men's Team Pursuit
  • Bryan Steel
    Bryan Steel
    Bryan Steel is an English former professional racing cyclist. He represented Great Britain at the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. Steel was born in Nottingham and now lives in Peterborough....

    , Paul Manning
    Paul Manning (cyclist)
    Paul Christian Manning MBE is a former English professional track and road bicycle racer who rode for the UCI Professional Continental team Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner in 2007 and 2008...

    , Bradley Wiggins
    Bradley Wiggins
    Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE is a British professional track and road bicycle racer, currently riding for Team Sky. Wiggins' career began on the track, where he specialised in the pursuit and madison disciplines....

    , Chris Newton
    Chris Newton
    Christopher Malcolm Newton is a successful road and track racing cyclist. Newton is a multiple world champion and Olympian.-Biography:Newton is an alumnus of the University of Teesside in Middlesbrough...

    • Qualifying — 04:04.030
    • Quarterfinal — 04:04.143
    • Semifinal — 04:02.387 (did not advance)


Men's Madison
  • Bradley Wiggins
    Bradley Wiggins
    Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE is a British professional track and road bicycle racer, currently riding for Team Sky. Wiggins' career began on the track, where he specialised in the pursuit and madison disciplines....

    , Rob Hayles
    Rob Hayles
    Robert John Hayles is a track and road racing cyclist, riding for Great Britain and England on the track and his professional team Endura Racing on the road. Hayles rides the team pursuit and madison events....

    • Final — 13 (4th place)

Women's competition

Women's Individual Pursuit
  • Yvonne McGregor
    Yvonne McGregor
    Yvonne McGregor MBE is an English former professional cyclist from Wibsey. She was made an MBE for services to cycling in the new year's honours list in January 2002.-Palmarès:1994...

    • Qualifying — 03:35.492
    • Semifinal — Lost to Marion Clignet
      Marion Clignet
      Marion Clignet is a French former track cyclist. Clignet was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 22 and was shunned by the United States Cycling Federation, and she subsequently raced for France.- Palmarès :...

       of France
    • Final — Defeated Sarah Ulmer
      Sarah Ulmer
      Sarah Elizabeth Ulmer, ONZM is the first New Zealander to win an Olympic cycling gold. She won a gold medal and set world records at the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens,....

       of New Zealand (Bronze medal)


Women's Point Race
  • Emma Davies
    Emma Davies (cyclist)
    Emma Davies Jones is a British Olympic cyclist. She competed in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.-Biography:Born in Knutsford, Cheshire...

    • Points — 0 (14th place)

Diving
Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, eight diving events were contested for the first time due to the inclusion of synchronized variants for each of the traditional events...

Men's 3 Metre Springboard
  • Tony Ally
    Tony Ally
    Antonio Piero Ally is a British diver. He was born in Luton, England.In 1998 he was a bronze medalist at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, won Gold in the European Championships for the three metre event in 1999, and won Silver at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games.He placed 18th and...

  • Preliminary — 393.36
  • Semi-final — 206.25 — 599.61
  • Final — 377.55 — 583.8 (12th place)


Men's 3 Metre Springboard
  • Mark Shipman
    Mark Shipman
    Mark Shipman is a British diver.He has competed at European, Commonwealth, World and Olympic levels on the 3 metre springboard. With Tony Ally he came 7th in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney....

  • Preliminary — 285.9 (46th place, did not finish)


Men's 10 Metre Platform
  • Leon Taylor
    Leon Taylor
    Leon Taylor is a British former competitive diver.He was hyperactive as a child and his parents were advised to channel his energies and enthusiasm into sport. He was a swimmer and gymnast from the age of two and only took up competitive diving when he was eight...

  • Preliminary — 399.9
  • Semi-final — 185.91 — 585.81 (13th place, did not advance)


Men's 10 Metre Platform
  • Peter Waterfield
    Peter Waterfield
    Peter Graham Waterfield is a British diver. His specialism is the 10 metre platform event, both as solo competitor and in the synchronised event with his former partner Leon Taylor...

  • Preliminary — 317.31 (33rd place, did not advance)


Men's Synchronized 3 Metre Springboard
  • Tony Ally
    Tony Ally
    Antonio Piero Ally is a British diver. He was born in Luton, England.In 1998 he was a bronze medalist at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, won Gold in the European Championships for the three metre event in 1999, and won Silver at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games.He placed 18th and...

    , Mark Shipman
    Mark Shipman
    Mark Shipman is a British diver.He has competed at European, Commonwealth, World and Olympic levels on the 3 metre springboard. With Tony Ally he came 7th in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney....

  • Final — 296.64 (7th place)


Men's Synchronized 10 Metre Platform
  • Leon Taylor
    Leon Taylor
    Leon Taylor is a British former competitive diver.He was hyperactive as a child and his parents were advised to channel his energies and enthusiasm into sport. He was a swimmer and gymnast from the age of two and only took up competitive diving when he was eight...

    , Peter Waterfield
    Peter Waterfield
    Peter Graham Waterfield is a British diver. His specialism is the 10 metre platform event, both as solo competitor and in the synchronised event with his former partner Leon Taylor...

  • Final — 335.34 (4th place)


Women's 3 Metre Springboard
  • Karen Smith
  • Preliminary — 224.58 (31st place, did not advance)


Women's 3 Metre Springboard
  • Jane Smith
  • Preliminary — 269.22
  • Semi-final — 207.9 — 477.12 (16th place, did not advance)


Women's 10 Metre Platform
  • Sally Freeman
  • Preliminary — 256.17 (25th place, did not advance)


Women's 10 Metre Platform
  • Lesley Ward
  • Preliminary — 238.65 (28th place, did not advance)

Gymnastics
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, three different gymnastics disciplines were contested: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and trampoline. The artistic gymnastics and trampoline events were held at the Sydney SuperDome on September 16–25 and September 22–23, respectively...

Women's Artistic Gymnastics:
  • Lisa Mason
    Lisa Mason
    Lisa Elena Jane Mason is a British gymnast who trained at Huntingdon Gym Club, starting at the age of five, and competed at both domestic and international level....

    • Women's Artistic Individual All-around — 23rd place — (37.167)
  • Emma Williams
    Emma Williams (gymnast)
    Emma Williams is a British artistic gymnast that competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics-External links:...

    • Women's Artistic Individual All-around — 32nd place — (36.443)
  • Annika Reeder
    Annika Reeder
    Annika Louise Reeder is a British artistic gymnast. She was the first gymnast from Great Britain to compete in two Olympic Games, in 1996 and 2000....

    • Women's Artistic Individual All-around — 35th place — (16.536)


Women's Trampolining:
  • Jaime Moore
    Jaime Moore
    Jaime Moore is a British former Olympic trampolinist. She represented her nation at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the first time the event was recognised by the competition...


Men's team competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Great Britain — Netherlands 2-4
  • Great Britain — Pakistan 1-8
  • Great Britain — Malaysia 2-2
  • Great Britain — Canada 1-1
  • Great Britain — Germany 2-1
  • Classification Matches
  • 5th-8th place: Great Britain — India 2-1
  • 5th-6th place: Great Britain — Germany 0-4 (→ Sixth place)
  • Team Roster
  • ( 1.) Simon Mason (gk)
  • ( 2.) David Luckes (gk)
  • ( 3.) Jon Wyatt
  • ( 4.) Julian Halls
  • ( 5.) Tom Bertram
    Tom Bertram
    Tom Quesenbery Bertram is an English field hockey player. Bertram played in two Summer Olympics for Great Britain in 2000 and 2004....

  • ( 6.) Craig Parnham
    Craig Parnham
    Craig Parnham is an English field hockey defender, who participated in two Summer Olympics for Great Britain: in 2000 and 2004...

  • ( 7.) Guy Fordham
  • ( 8.) Ben Sharpe
  • ( 9.) Mark Pearn
  • (10.) Jimmy Wallis
  • (11.) Brett Garrard
  • (12.) Bill Waugh
  • (13.) Daniel Hall
    Danny Hall (field hockey)
    Daniel James Hall is a retired makle field hockey player from England, who participated in three Summer Olympics for Great Britain: in 1996, 2000 and 2004.-References:...

  • (14.) Michael Johnson
  • (15.) Calum Giles
    Calum Giles
    Calum Giles is a former Great Britain olympic field hockey player, who competed in the British squad at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...

  • (16.) David Hacker
  • Head Coach: Barry Dancer
    Barry Dancer
    Barry Dancer is a former field hockey player from Australia who competed in 48 international matches for Australia between 1973 and 1979.-External links:*...


Women's team competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Great Britain — Australia 1-2
  • Great Britain — Argentina 0-1
  • Great Britain — South Korea 2-2
  • Great Britain — Spain 2-0
  • Classification Matches
  • Great Britain — South Africa 3-2
  • Great Britain — Germany 0-2 (→ 9th place)
  • Team Roster
  • ( 1.) Carolyn Reid
    Carolyn Reid
    Carolyn Marie Reid is a retired female field hockey goalkeeper, who was a member of the British squad that competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She won a total number of three medals, , during her career at the Commonwealth Games.-References:*...

     (gk)
  • ( 2.) Hilary Rose
    Hilary Rose
    Hilary Mary Rose is a British field hockey goalkeeper, who plays for Ipswich and England, and has played for Great Britain. She represented England from 1993 to 2002.-References:*...

     (gk)
  • ( 3.) Kristy Bowden
  • ( 4.) Jane Smith
    Jane Smith (field hockey)
    Jane Caroline Smith is a British Olympic field hockey team member.-References:*...

  • ( 6.) Melanie Clewlow
    Melanie Clewlow
    Melanie Clewlow is an English field hockey international, who was a member of the England and Great Britain women's field hockey team during the late 1990s and 2000s.-References:**...

  • ( 7.) Tina Cullen
    Tina Cullen
    Christina Louise "Tina" Cullen is a field hockey forward from England. She represented Great Britain in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 when the team ended up in fourth place....

  • ( 8.) Kathryn Johnson
    Kathryn Johnson
    Kathryn Louise Johnson is a former field hockey player, who was a member of the British squad that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. She played club hockey for Leicester Ladies.-References:* * *...

  • ( 9.) Lucilla Wright
    Lucilla Wright
    Lucilla Mary Wright is an English field hockey international, who was a member of the England and Great Britain women's field hockey team during the late 1990s and 2000s.-References:**...

  • (10.) Jane Sixsmith
    Jane Sixsmith
    Janet Theresa "Jane" Sixsmith MBE is a former field hockey player, who was a member of the British squad that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She retired from the international scene after scoring over hundred goals and winning 165 caps for England and 158 for Great...

  • (11.) Rhona Simpson
    Rhona Simpson
    Rhona Isabel Simpson is a female field hockey player from Scotland. She twice represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics...

  • (12.) Denise Marston-Smith
    Denise Marston-Smith
    Denise Marston-Smith is an English field hockey international, who was a member of the England and Great Britain women's field hockey team. She started playing hockey at the age of 12 at Gordano School near Bristol...

  • (13.) Helen Henderson
  • (14.) Fiona Greenham
  • (15.) Pauline Stott
    Pauline Robertson
    Pauline Judith Robertson-Stott is a retired female field hockey player from Scotland. She represented Great Britain in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 when she captained the team that ended up in fourth place....

  • (16.) Kate Walsh
    Kate Walsh (hockey player)
    Kathrin Louise Walsh is the field hockey captain for Great Britain and England. When she was 28 she had over 130 caps for England and 60 for Great Britain...

  • (17.) Mandy Nicholson
  • Head Coach: Jon Royce

Modern Pentathlon
Modern pentathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Final results for the modern pentathlon at the 2000 Summer OlympicsThe women's individual match was newly introduced.Men's held September 30. Women's held on October 1.Shooting, held on 6:45 at the Pavilion 2 Fencing, held on 8:00 at the Pavilion 2...

Women's:
  • Stephanie Cook — 5381 pts, gold medal
  • Kate Allenby — 5273 pts, bronze medal

Sailing
Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Sailing/Yachting is a Olympic sport starting from the Games of the 1st Olympiad . With the exception of 1904 and possible 1916 sailing was always a part of the Olympic program....

Great Britain competed in ten of the eleven Sailing events at the Sydney Olympics. They won three gold medals and two Silver medals.

Men's Mistral
  • Nick Dempsey
    Nick Dempsey
    Nick Dempsey is an English windsurfer, who lives in Weymouth. He married Sarah Ayton in October 2008 just 2 months after their gold medal victories. In June 2009, they had a son, Thomas-Flynn....

  • Race 1 — (37) OCS
  • Race 2 — 15
  • Race 3 — 2
  • Race 4 — (28)
  • Race 5 — 19
  • Race 6 — 27
  • Race 7 — 23
  • Race 8 — 9
  • Race 9 — 19
  • Race 10 — 2
  • Race 11 — 9
  • Final — 125 (16th place)


Men's Single Handed Dinghy (Finn)
  • Iain Percy
    Iain Percy
    Iain Bryden Percy OBE is a British sailor and double Olympic champion.-Sailing competitions:Percy competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he won a gold medal in the Finn class...

  • Race 1 — 2
  • Race 2 — 1
  • Race 3 — 9
  • Race 4 — 2
  • Race 5 — 5
  • Race 6 — 8
  • Race 7 — 1
  • Race 8 — 6
  • Race 9 — 1
  • Race 10 — (14)
  • Race 11 — (26) DNC
  • Final — 35 (Gold medal)


Men's Double Handed Dinghy (470)
  • Nicholas Rogers and Joe Glanfield
  • Race 1 — 4
  • Race 2 — 3
  • Race 3 — 17
  • Race 4 — 1
  • Race 5 — 8
  • Race 6 — (18)
  • Race 7 — (19)
  • Race 8 — 6
  • Race 9 — 6
  • Race 10 — 6
  • Race 11 — 7
  • Final — 58 (4th place)


Men's Laser
  • Ben Ainslie
    Ben Ainslie
    Charles Benedict Ainslie, CBE is an English sailor and three-times Olympic gold medalist. He started sailing at the age of 8 and first competed at the age of 10...

  • Race 1 — (22)
  • Race 2 — 1
  • Race 3 — 1
  • Race 4 — 3
  • Race 5 — 4
  • Race 6 — 4
  • Race 7 — 10
  • Race 8 — 11
  • Race 9 — 4
  • Race 10 — 4
  • Race 11 — (36)
  • Final — 42 (Gold medal)


Men's Tornado
  • Hugh Styles and Adam May
  • Race 1 — 2
  • Race 2 — 5
  • Race 3 — 3
  • Race 4 — 10
  • Race 5 — 7
  • Race 6 — 6
  • Race 7 — (17) OCS
  • Race 8 — (17) DSQ
  • Race 9 — 10
  • Race 10 — 7
  • Race 11 — 3
  • Final — 53 (6th place)


Men's Two Handed Keelboat (Star)
  • Ian Walker
    Ian Walker (sailor)
    Ian Walker is one of Britain’s most successful sailors, with two Olympic silver medals to his name. Walker also coached Shirley Robertson and her Yngling Team to gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics...

     and Mark Covell
    Mark Covell
    Mark Covell is a Scottish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist. He won a silver medal in the Star class at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, along with Ian Walker.-References:...

  • Race 1 — 1
  • Race 2 — (9)
  • Race 3 — (11)
  • Race 4 — 7
  • Race 5 — 2
  • Race 6 — 3
  • Race 7 — 2
  • Race 8 — 1
  • Race 9 — 7
  • Race 10 — 9
  • Race 11 — 3
  • Final — 35 (Silver medal)


Men's Three Handed Keelboat (Soling)
  • Andy Beadsworth, Barry Parkin and Richard Sydenham
  • Round Robin Round 1 — (1-4) — 1 point — Did not advance


Women's Mistral
  • Christine Johnston
  • Race 1 — 25
  • Race 2 — 9
  • Race 3 — (26)
  • Race 4 — 17
  • Race 5 — 2
  • Race 6 — 18
  • Race 7 — 19
  • Race 8 — 24
  • Race 9 — 19
  • Race 10 — (26)
  • Race 11 — 13
  • Final — 146 (18th place)


Women's Single Handed Dinghy (Europe)
  • Shirley Robertson
    Shirley Robertson
    Shirley Ann Robertson, OBE is a Scottish sailor and Olympic gold medallist. She made it in the history books by becoming the first British woman to win two Olympic gold medals at consecutive games, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004....

  • Race 1 — 4
  • Race 2 — 3
  • Race 3 — 1
  • Race 4 — 6
  • Race 5 — 1
  • Race 6 — (13)
  • Race 7 — 8
  • Race 8 — 9
  • Race 9 — 2
  • Race 10 — (16)
  • Race 11 — 3
  • Final — 37 (Gold medal)


Mixed High Performance Two Handed Dinghy (49er)
  • Ian Barker
    Ian Barker (sailor)
    Ian Barker is a British sailor. He won a silver medal in the High Performance Dinghy class at the 2000 Summer Olympics with Simon Hiscocks.-References:* at sports-reference.com...

     and Simon Hiscocks
    Simon Hiscocks
    Simon Hiscocks is a British sailor who won a bronze medal for Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the mixed 49er. Hiscocks also won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the same category.-References:...

  • Race 1 — (13)
  • Race 2 — 5
  • Race 3 — 6
  • Race 4 — (10)
  • Race 5 — 6
  • Race 6 — 2
  • Race 7 — 4
  • Race 8 — 2
  • Race 9 — 9
  • Race 10 — 5
  • Race 11 — 4
  • Race 12 — 4
  • Race 13 — 5
  • Race 14 — 4
  • Race 15 — 1
  • Race 16 — 3
  • Final — 60 (Silver medal)

Swimming
Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 32 swimming events were contested, between September 15–23, 2000. There was a total of 954 participants from 150 countries competing.-Medal table:-Men:...

Men's 50 m Freestyle
  • Mark Foster
    Mark Foster (swimmer)
    Mark Andrew Foster is a British professional swimmer, specialising in butterfly and freestyle at 50 metres....

  • Preliminary Heat — 22.65
  • Semi-final — 22.32
  • Final — 22.41 (7th place)


Men's 200 m Freestyle
  • Paul Palmer
    Paul Palmer (swimmer)
    Paul Palmer is a former international freestyle swimmer for England and Great Britain.Coached by Ian Turner at the City of Lincoln Pentaqua Swimming Club, Palmer qualified for the 200 m, 400 m and 1500 m freestyle at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, finishing a respectable 9th position ...

  • Preliminary Heat — 1:49.83
  • Semi-final — 1:48.79
  • Final — 1:47.95 (5th place)
  • James Salter
    James Salter (swimmer)
    James Salter is a former international freestyle swimmer for England and Great Britain. He trained with the City of Edinburgh Swimming Club, Scotland...

  • Preliminary Heat — 1:48.77
  • Semi-final — 1:48.64
  • Final — 1:48.74 (6th place)


Men's 400 m Freestyle
  • Paul Palmer
    Paul Palmer (swimmer)
    Paul Palmer is a former international freestyle swimmer for England and Great Britain.Coached by Ian Turner at the City of Lincoln Pentaqua Swimming Club, Palmer qualified for the 200 m, 400 m and 1500 m freestyle at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, finishing a respectable 9th position ...

  • Preliminary Heat — 03:51.06 (did not advance)
  • James Salter
    James Salter (swimmer)
    James Salter is a former international freestyle swimmer for England and Great Britain. He trained with the City of Edinburgh Swimming Club, Scotland...

  • Preliminary Heat — 03:52.01 (did not advance)


Men's 1500 m Freestyle
  • Paul Palmer
    Paul Palmer (swimmer)
    Paul Palmer is a former international freestyle swimmer for England and Great Britain.Coached by Ian Turner at the City of Lincoln Pentaqua Swimming Club, Palmer qualified for the 200 m, 400 m and 1500 m freestyle at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, finishing a respectable 9th position ...

  • Preliminary Heat — 15:21.09 (did not advance)
  • Adam Faulkner
  • Preliminary Heat — 15:39.86 (did not advance)


Men's 100 m Butterfly
  • James Hickman
    James Hickman
    James Hickman is a former swimmer from Great Britain, who became a world champion five times on the 200 m butterfly in short course , twice world record holder, Commonwealth Champion and four times European Champion. He announced his retirement from the sport in 2004...

  • Preliminary Heat — 53.48
  • Semi-final — 53.55 (did not advance)


Men's 200 m Butterfly
  • Stephen Parry
    Stephen Parry (swimmer)
    Stephen Benjamin Parry is a former British butterfly swimmer. He competed internationally in 100-metre and 200-metre butterfly distances....

  • Preliminary Heat — 01:58.00
  • Semi-final — 01:57.23
  • Final — 01:57.00 (6th place)
  • James Hickman
    James Hickman
    James Hickman is a former swimmer from Great Britain, who became a world champion five times on the 200 m butterfly in short course , twice world record holder, Commonwealth Champion and four times European Champion. He announced his retirement from the sport in 2004...

  • Preliminary Heat — 01:57.88
  • Semi-final — 01:57.84 (did not advance)


Men's 100 m Breaststroke
  • Darren Mew
    Darren Mew
    Darren Mew is a British swimmer specialising in breaststroke. He is a member of Ellesmere College Titans and studied sport as a student at the University of Bath...

  • Preliminary Heat — 01:02.42
  • Semi-final — 01:01.98 (did not advance)
  • Adam Whitehead
    Adam Whitehead
    Adam Whitehead is a former breaststroke swimmer from Great Britain, who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There he was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the men's 100 m and 200m breaststroke....

  • Preliminary Heat — 01:02.91 (did not advance)


Men's 200 m Breaststroke
  • Adam Whitehead
    Adam Whitehead
    Adam Whitehead is a former breaststroke swimmer from Great Britain, who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There he was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the men's 100 m and 200m breaststroke....

  • Preliminary Heat — 02:17.16 (did not advance)


Men's 100 m Backstroke
  • Adam Ruckwood
    Adam Ruckwood
    Adam Ruckwood is a retired backstroke swimmer from England, who competed for the United Kingdom at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 ....

  • Preliminary Heat — 56.19
  • Semi-final — 56.34 (did not advance)


Men's 200 m Backstroke
  • Adam Ruckwood
    Adam Ruckwood
    Adam Ruckwood is a retired backstroke swimmer from England, who competed for the United Kingdom at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 ....

  • Preliminary Heat — 02:01.11 (did not advance)
  • Simon Militis
  • Preliminary Heat — 02:01.20 (did not advance)


Men's 400 m Individual Medley
  • Simon Militis
  • Preliminary Heat — 04:24.38 (did not advance)


Men's 4×100 m Freestyle
  • Paul Belk, Sion Brinn
    Sion Brinn
    Sion Brinn is a former swimmer and Olympian from Jamaica. He swam for his native Jamaica at the 1996 Olympics; and for Great Britain at the 2000 Olympics....

    , Anthony Howard
    Anthony Howard (swimmer)
    Anthony Howard is a former British freestyle swimmer.Howard was part of the bronze medal winning British 4×50 m freestyle teams at the 2000 and 2005 European SC Championships....

    , and Mark Stevens
  • Preliminary Heat — 03:20.45 (did not advance)


Men's 4×200 m Freestyle
  • Andrew Clayton
    Andrew Clayton
    Andrew Clayton is a former international freestyle swimmer for England and Great Britain.Clayton twice competed at the Summer Olympics for Great Britain...

    , Graeme Smith
    Graeme Smith (swimmer)
    Graeme Smith is a former British freestyle swimmer.He won the bronze medal in the 1500 m freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Three years later, at the European Short Course Swimming Championships 1999 in Lisbon, he captured the golden medal in the same event...

    , Paul Palmer
    Paul Palmer (swimmer)
    Paul Palmer is a former international freestyle swimmer for England and Great Britain.Coached by Ian Turner at the City of Lincoln Pentaqua Swimming Club, Palmer qualified for the 200 m, 400 m and 1500 m freestyle at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, finishing a respectable 9th position ...

    , James Salter
    James Salter (swimmer)
    James Salter is a former international freestyle swimmer for England and Great Britain. He trained with the City of Edinburgh Swimming Club, Scotland...

    , Edward Sinclair, and Marc Spackman
  • Preliminary Heat — 07:20.69
  • Final — 07:12.98 (5th place)


Men's 4×100 m Medley
  • Neil Willey
    Neil Willey
    Neil Willey is a former international backstroke swimmer from England. He represented Great Britain twice at the Summer Olympics: in 1996 and 2000 . Willey won several medals in the 1990s as a member of the British short course relay teams.-References:*...

    , Darren Mew
    Darren Mew
    Darren Mew is a British swimmer specialising in breaststroke. He is a member of Ellesmere College Titans and studied sport as a student at the University of Bath...

    , James Hickman
    James Hickman
    James Hickman is a former swimmer from Great Britain, who became a world champion five times on the 200 m butterfly in short course , twice world record holder, Commonwealth Champion and four times European Champion. He announced his retirement from the sport in 2004...

    , and Sion Brinn
    Sion Brinn
    Sion Brinn is a former swimmer and Olympian from Jamaica. He swam for his native Jamaica at the 1996 Olympics; and for Great Britain at the 2000 Olympics....

  • Preliminary Heat — 03:39.60
  • Final — 03:40.19 (8th place)


Women's 50 m Freestyle
  • Alison Sheppard
    Alison Sheppard
    Alison Sheppard MBE is a freestyle swimmer from Scotland, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics for Great Britain, starting in 1988.-Personal bests and records held:-External links:*...

  • Preliminary Heat — 25.53
  • Semi-final — 25.32
  • Final — 25.45 (7th place)


Women's 100 m Freestyle
  • Sue Rolph
    Sue Rolph
    Susan Rolph is a former freestyle and medley swimmer from Great Britain, who was one of the dominating forces in the 1990s of British swimming. She won her first medal as a member of the 4×100 m freestyle relay team at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.-References:* *...

  • Preliminary Heat — 55.77
  • Semi-final — 55.69 (did not advance)
  • Karen Pickering
    Karen Pickering
    Karen Pickering is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain, who made her international senior debut in 1986. She was first selected to represent her country at the European Junior Championships...

  • Preliminary Heat — 56.08
  • Semi-final — 55.71 (did not advance)


Women's 200 m Freestyle
  • Karen Pickering
    Karen Pickering
    Karen Pickering is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain, who made her international senior debut in 1986. She was first selected to represent her country at the European Junior Championships...

  • Preliminary Heat — 02:01.42 (did not advance)
  • Karen Legg
    Karen Legg
    Karen Legg-Crumpler is a former British freestyle swimmer.During her seven year international career , she won four world, two European and seven Commonwealth medals. Legg also competed for Great Britain in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney in the women's 4×200 m freestyle...

  • Preliminary Heat — DNS (did not advance)


Women's 800 m Freestyle
  • Rebecca Cooke
    Rebecca Cooke
    Rebecca Cooke is a former British freestyle swimmer.She has won medals at every major international championships with the exception of the Olympic Games. She retired from international competition in April 2008 after failing to make the British team for the 2008 Games in Beijing.-References:...

  • Preliminary Heat — 08:43.07 (did not advance)


Women's 100 m Butterfly
  • Margaretha Pedder
  • Preliminary Heat — 01:01.53 (did not advance)


Women's 200 m Butterfly
  • Georgina Lee
  • Preliminary Heat — 02:11.09
  • Semi-final — 02:10.33 (did not advance)
  • Margaretha Pedder
  • Preliminary Heat — 02:11.59
  • Semi-final — 02:10.49 (did not advance)


Women's 100 m Breaststroke
  • Heidi Earp
  • Preliminary Heat — 01:10.56 (did not advance)


Women's 200 m Breaststroke
  • Jaime King
    Jaime King (swimmer)
    Jaime King is a former breaststroke swimmer from Great Britain, who represented her native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992....

  • Preliminary Heat — 02:33.10 (did not advance)


Women's 100 m Backstroke
  • Katy Sexton
    Katy Sexton
    Katy Sexton MBE is a British swimmer.One of her most significant achievements was becoming the first British female swimmer to win gold at the 2003 World Championships in the 200 m backstroke...

  • Preliminary Heat — 01:02.67
  • Semi-final — 01:02.35 (did not advance)


Women's 100 m Backstroke
  • Sarah Price
    Sarah Price
    This article is about the swimmer. For the filmmaker see Sarah Price Sarah Price is a former backstroke swimmer from the United Kingdom. She began her swimming career at the Potters Bar club, and turned professional aged fifteen. She set her first British record in 1997 in the 50 m backstroke...

  • Preliminary Heat — 01:03.22 (did not advance)


Women's 200 m Backstroke
  • Joanna Fargus
  • Preliminary Heat — 02:12.99
  • Semi-final — 02:13.57 (did not advance)
  • Helen Don-Duncan
    Helen Don-Duncan
    Helen Don-Duncan is a former backstroke swimmer from England, who competed for Great Britain at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. There she ended up in 15th place in the women's 200 m backstroke event.-References:*...

  • Preliminary Heat — 02:14.18
  • Semi-final — 02:14.97 (did not advance)


Women's 200 m Individual Medley
  • Sue Rolph
    Sue Rolph
    Susan Rolph is a former freestyle and medley swimmer from Great Britain, who was one of the dominating forces in the 1990s of British swimming. She won her first medal as a member of the 4×100 m freestyle relay team at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.-References:* *...

  • Preliminary Heat — 02:16.43
  • Semi-final — 02:15.98 (did not advance)
  • Kathryn Evans
  • Preliminary Heat — 02:19.41 (did not advance)


Women's 4×100 m Freestyle
  • Rosalind Brett
    Rosalind Brett
    Rosalind Brett is a former British swimmer.During her swimming career Brett represented Great Britain in numerous world and European championships in butterfly and freestyle over various distances, winning a handful of medals as part of relay teams...

    , Karen Pickering
    Karen Pickering
    Karen Pickering is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain, who made her international senior debut in 1986. She was first selected to represent her country at the European Junior Championships...

    , Sue Rolph
    Sue Rolph
    Susan Rolph is a former freestyle and medley swimmer from Great Britain, who was one of the dominating forces in the 1990s of British swimming. She won her first medal as a member of the 4×100 m freestyle relay team at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.-References:* *...

    , and Alison Sheppard
    Alison Sheppard
    Alison Sheppard MBE is a freestyle swimmer from Scotland, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics for Great Britain, starting in 1988.-Personal bests and records held:-External links:*...

  • Preliminary Heat — 03:42.47
  • Final — 03:40.54 (5th place)


Women's 4×200 m Freestyle
  • Janine Belton
    Janine Belton
    Janine Claire Belton is a former English swimmer. She is best known for winning gold at the 2001 World Championships as part of the British women's 4×200 m freestyle relay team alongside Nicola Jackson, Karen Legg and Karen Pickering.She represented Great Britain at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic...

    , Claire Huddart
    Claire Huddart
    Claire Huddart is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996.-References:*...

    , Nicola Jackson
    Nicola Jackson
    Nicola Jackson is a British swimmer, who won two world championships in relay events.In 1999, Jackson won a silver medal at the World Short Course Championships in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay...

    , Karen Legg
    Karen Legg
    Karen Legg-Crumpler is a former British freestyle swimmer.During her seven year international career , she won four world, two European and seven Commonwealth medals. Legg also competed for Great Britain in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney in the women's 4×200 m freestyle...

    , and Karen Pickering
    Karen Pickering
    Karen Pickering is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain, who made her international senior debut in 1986. She was first selected to represent her country at the European Junior Championships...

  • Preliminary Heat — 08:07.41
  • Final — 08:03.69 (6th place)


Women's 4×100 m Medley
  • Heidi Earp, Karen Pickering
    Karen Pickering
    Karen Pickering is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain, who made her international senior debut in 1986. She was first selected to represent her country at the European Junior Championships...

    , Sue Rolph
    Sue Rolph
    Susan Rolph is a former freestyle and medley swimmer from Great Britain, who was one of the dominating forces in the 1990s of British swimming. She won her first medal as a member of the 4×100 m freestyle relay team at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.-References:* *...

    , and Katy Sexton
    Katy Sexton
    Katy Sexton MBE is a British swimmer.One of her most significant achievements was becoming the first British female swimmer to win gold at the 2003 World Championships in the 200 m backstroke...

  • Preliminary Heat — 04:07.52
  • Final — 04:07.61 (7th place)

Triathlon
Triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Triathlon made its Olympic Games debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The sport consists of three different disciplines, competed consecutively with no rest between them.The Olympic distances for the three disciplines are:...

The three British triathletes that finished the inaugural Olympic triathlon placed highly, with none lower than fifteenth place and two in the top ten. However, three more British athletes did not finish the competition.

Women's:
  • Stephanie Forrester
    Stephanie Forrester (athlete)
    Stephanie Forrester is an athlete from the United Kingdom, who competes in triathlon.Forrester competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She took fifteenth place with a total time of 2:03:56.11. That same year, Forrester took 1st place at the 2000 ITU Duathlon World...

     — 2:03:56.11 (15th place)
  • Sian Brice
    Sian Brice
    Sian Brice is a triathlete from the United Kingdom.She was born in Leigh, Greater Manchester.Brice competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was one of the three British athletes, along with Michelle Dillon and Andrew Johns, not to finish the competition.-External...

     — DNF
  • Michelle Dillon
    Michelle Dillon
    Michelle Dillon is a British triathlete.Dillon's first Olympic triathlon was at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was one of the three British athletes, along with Sian Brice and Andrew Johns, not to finish the competition...

     — DNF


Men's:
  • Simon Lessing
    Simon Lessing
    Simon Christopher Lessing, MBE, is a British triathlete who won five Olympic-distance world titles . He also won races at 70.3, ITU long distance and Ironman-distance events. He set an Olympic-distance world record in 1996, and is noted for his 2004 Ironman Lake Placid win, where he set a course...

     — 1:49:24.32 (9th place)
  • Timothy Don — 1:49:28.85 (10th place)
  • Andrew Johns
    Andrew Johns (triathlete)
    Andrew Johns is a male triathlete from the United Kingdom. Johns is a former European and World Cup Champion as well as a World Championship bronze medalist....

     — DNF

Gymnastics
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, three different gymnastics disciplines were contested: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and trampoline. The artistic gymnastics and trampoline events were held at the Sydney SuperDome on September 16–25 and September 22–23, respectively...

Lisa Mason
Lisa Mason
Lisa Elena Jane Mason is a British gymnast who trained at Huntingdon Gym Club, starting at the age of five, and competed at both domestic and international level....

, Annika Reeder
Annika Reeder
Annika Louise Reeder is a British artistic gymnast. She was the first gymnast from Great Britain to compete in two Olympic Games, in 1996 and 2000....

, Emma Williams, Sharna Murray, Kelly Hackman & Paula Thomas represented Great Britain. The Team placed 10th which was the highest placing attained by GBR Women's Artistic Gymnastics at an Olympic Games.

Qualification:
  • Lisa Mason
    Lisa Mason
    Lisa Elena Jane Mason is a British gymnast who trained at Huntingdon Gym Club, starting at the age of five, and competed at both domestic and international level....

     - 22nd - 37.580 total - qualified for the All Around Final
  • Annika Reeder
    Annika Reeder
    Annika Louise Reeder is a British artistic gymnast. She was the first gymnast from Great Britain to compete in two Olympic Games, in 1996 and 2000....

     - 27th - 37.368 total - qualified for the All Around Final
  • Emma Williams - 38th - 36.961 total - qualified for the All Around Final
  • Sharna Murray - 72nd - 27.818 total - (did not compete on Floor)
  • Kelly Hackman - 74th - 27.374 total - (did not compete on Vault)
  • Paula Thomas - 87th - 18.812 total - (did not compete on Bars or Beam)


All Around Finals:
  • Lisa Mason
    Lisa Mason
    Lisa Elena Jane Mason is a British gymnast who trained at Huntingdon Gym Club, starting at the age of five, and competed at both domestic and international level....

     - 23rd - 37.167 total
  • Emma Williams - 32nd - 36.443 total
  • Annika Reeder
    Annika Reeder
    Annika Louise Reeder is a British artistic gymnast. She was the first gymnast from Great Britain to compete in two Olympic Games, in 1996 and 2000....

     - 35th - 16.536 total after having to retire injured after vaulting, having only competed on Floor and Vault)

Weightlifting

Men
Athlete Event Snatch Clean & Jerk Total Rank
1 2 3 1 2 3
Thomas Yule
Thomas Yule
Thomas Lister Yule is a retired male weightlifter, who was born in South Africa. He represented Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where he was disqualified in the men's heavyweight division after three false snatches...

– 105 kg
Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 105 kg
The Men's Heavyweight Weightlifting Event is the seventh men's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 105 kilograms of body mass...

155.0 155.0 155.0 DNF
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