South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

competed 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

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Silver

• Hestrie Cloete
  Hestrie Cloete
  Hestrie Cloete-Storbeck is a former, highly successful South African high jumper. Her foremost achievements were winning two world championships and two silver medals at Olympic Games.-Career:...
  
   — Athletics, Women's High Jump
• Terence Parkin
  Terence Parkin
  Terence Parkin is a deaf swimmer from South Africa, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres breaststroke...
  
   — Swimming, Men's 200m Breaststroke

Bronze

• Llewellyn Herbert
  Llewellyn Herbert
  Llewellyn Herbert is a South African athlete competing over 400 metres hurdles. He won an Olympic bronze medal in 2000 and set five national records over the distance.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
   — Athletics, Men's 400 m Hurdles
• Frantz Kruger
  Frantz Kruger
  Frantz Kruger is a South African born Finnish discus thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 2000. He is also a double African champion...
  
   — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
• Penny Heyns — Swimming, Women's 100 m Breaststroke

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...

South Africa returned two of the archers that had competed four years earlier. Again, Lewis had the nation's only victory.

Women's Individual
	Kirstin Lewis			Jill Borresen
1/32 eliminations	Defeated	Natalia Nasaridze Natalia Nasaridze Natalia Nasaridze is a three-time European champion archer, currently competing internationally for Turkey....   Turkey	154-153	Lost to	Cristina Ioriatti  Italy	154-145
1/16 eliminations	Lost to	Michelle Tremelling  Australia	162-147	-	-	-

Men's Competition

Men's 100 m

• Matthew Quinn
  Matthew Quinn
  Mathew Quinn is a South African sprinter. Together with Morne Nagel, Corne Du Plessis and Lee Roy Newton he won a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics....
  
  
• Round 1 — 10.44
• Round 2 — 10.27 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 m

• Hendrick Mokganyetsi
  Hendrick Mokganyetsi
  Hendrick Mokganyetsi is a South African sprinter who specializes in the 400 meters.His personal best time is 44.59 seconds, achieved in September 2000 in Yokohama. He also has a strong personal best in the 800 meters, 1:44.62 minutes from 1997...
  
  
• Round 1 — 45.22
• Round 2 — 45.15
• Semifinal — 45.52
• Final — 45.26 (→ 6th place)
• Arnaud Malherbe
  Arnaud Malherbe
  Arnaud Malherbe is a South African sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 44.59 seconds, achieved in March 1999 in Roodepoort. It is also the current South African Record...
  
  
• Round 1 — 45.73
• Round 2 — 45.59 (→ did not advance)

Men's 800 m

• Johan Botha
  Johan Botha (athlete)
  Johan Botha is a South African middle distance runner who won the gold medal over 800 metres at the World Indoor Championships in Athletics in Maebashi in 1999. In the course of the race he defeated world record holder Wilson Kipketer and Nico Motchebon in a winning time of 1:45.47...
  
  
• Round 1 — 01:46.91
• Semifinal — 01:45.49 (→ did not advance)
• Hezekiél Sepeng
  Hezekiél Sepeng
  Hezekiél Sello Sepeng , is a South African middle distance runner who came second in the Olympic 800 metres final in Atlanta 1996 , the 1998 Commonwealth Games and the World Championships' final in Seville 1999...
  
  
• Round 1 — 01:47.46
• Semifinal — 01:44.85
• Final — 01:45.29 (→ 4th place)
• Werner Botha
• Round 1 — 01:47.83
• Semifinal — 01:46.53 (→ did not advance)

Men's 110 m Hurdles

• Shaun Bownes
  Shaun Bownes
  Shaun Bownes is a South African hurdler.His personal best time is 13.26 seconds, achieved in July 2001 in Heusden. This is the current African record. He also holds the African record in 60 metres hurdles with 7.52 seconds, achieved in February 2001 in Ghent.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  
• Round 1 — 13.53
• Round 2 — 13.54
• Semifinal — 13.41 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 m Hurdles

• Llewellyn Herbert
  Llewellyn Herbert
  Llewellyn Herbert is a South African athlete competing over 400 metres hurdles. He won an Olympic bronze medal in 2000 and set five national records over the distance.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  
• Round 1 — 49.25
• Semifinal — 48.38
• Final — 47.81 (→ Bronze Medal)
• Alwyn Myburgh
  Alwyn Myburgh
  Alwyn Myburgh is a South African hurdler.His personal best time is 48.09 seconds, achieved at the 2001 Summer Universiade in Beijing.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.66 s...
  
  
• Round 1 — 49.57
• Semifinal — 49.25 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x400 m

• Werner Botha, Llewellyn Herbert
  Llewellyn Herbert
  Llewellyn Herbert is a South African athlete competing over 400 metres hurdles. He won an Olympic bronze medal in 2000 and set five national records over the distance.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  , Arnaud Malherbe
  Arnaud Malherbe
  Arnaud Malherbe is a South African sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 44.59 seconds, achieved in March 1999 in Roodepoort. It is also the current South African Record...
  
  , Hendrick Mokganyetsi
  Hendrick Mokganyetsi
  Hendrick Mokganyetsi is a South African sprinter who specializes in the 400 meters.His personal best time is 44.59 seconds, achieved in September 2000 in Yokohama. He also has a strong personal best in the 800 meters, 1:44.62 minutes from 1997...
  
  , Alwyn Myburgh
  Alwyn Myburgh
  Alwyn Myburgh is a South African hurdler.His personal best time is 48.09 seconds, achieved at the 2001 Summer Universiade in Beijing.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.66 s...
  
  , Hezekiél Sepeng
  Hezekiél Sepeng
  Hezekiél Sello Sepeng , is a South African middle distance runner who came second in the Olympic 800 metres final in Atlanta 1996 , the 1998 Commonwealth Games and the World Championships' final in Seville 1999...
  
  
• Round 1 — 03:04.08
• Semifinal — 03:01.25 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1,500 m Wheelchair

• Ernst van Dyk
  Ernst van Dyk
  Ernst Van Dyk is a South African wheelchair racer. He has won a record 9 wheelchair titles in the Boston Marathon. He is also the current world record holder for men's wheelchair marathon from his record-setting race in the 2004 Boston Marathon, which he completed in 1 hour, 18 minutes, 27 seconds...
  
  
• Final — 03:12.35 (→ 7th place)

Men's Shot Put

• Janus Robberts
  Janus Robberts
  Janus Robberts is a South African athlete who competes in the shot put, and occasionally discus throw. He is the current African record holder in shot put with 21.97 metres, and also a former junior world record holder...
  
  
• Qualifying — 19.79
• Final — 20.32 (→ 7th place)
• Burger Lambrechts
  Burger Lambrechts
  Burger Lambrechts is a South African shot putter.He attended Laerskool Nelspruit, where he was head-boy in 1986 and Hoërskool Waterkloof, where he was vice head-boy in 1991....
  
  
• Qualifying — 19.75 (→ did not advance)
• Karel Potgieter
• Qualifying — 19.02 (→ did not advance)

Men's Discus

• Frantz Kruger
  Frantz Kruger
  Frantz Kruger is a South African born Finnish discus thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 2000. He is also a double African champion...
  
  
• Qualifying — 67.54
• Final — 68.19 (→ Bronze Medal)

• Frits Potgieter
• Qualifying — 61.56 (→ did not advance)

Men's Javelin Throw

• Ali Al-Jadani
• Qualifying — 68.70 (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

• Salem Al-Ahmadi
• Qualifying — 15.99 (→ did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault

• Okkert Brits
  Okkert Brits
  Okkert Brits is a South African athlete competing in the pole vault. His current personal best of 6.03m, set in 1995, is also the African record. He has won numerous medals at international events. He has competed in the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games finishing 7th in 2000...
  
  
• Qualifying — 5.65
• Final — 5.80 (→ 7th place)

Men's Marathon

• Hendrick Ramaala
• Final — 2:16:19 (→ 12th place)
• Josia Thugwane
  Josia Thugwane
  Josia Thugwane is a South African athlete, best known for winning the gold medal in the marathon race at the 1996 Summer Olympics...
  
  
• Final — 2:16:59 (→ 20th place)
• Johannes Maremane
• Final — 2:21:25 (→ 43rd place)

Women's Competition

Women's 400 m

• Heide Seyerling
• Round 1 — 51.92
• Round 2 — 50.87
• Semifinal — 51.06
• Final — 50.05 (→ 6th place)

Women's 10,000 m

• Elana Meyer
  Elana Meyer
  Elana Meyer is a former long-distance runner from South Africa, who won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the 10,000 metre event....
  
  
• Round 1 — 32:35.32
• Final — 31:14.70 (→ 8th place)

Women's High Jump

• Hestrie Cloete
  Hestrie Cloete
  Hestrie Cloete-Storbeck is a former, highly successful South African high jumper. Her foremost achievements were winning two world championships and two silver medals at Olympic Games.-Career:...
  
  
• Qualifying — 1.94
• Final — 2.01 (→ Silver Medal)

Women's Pole Vault

• Elmarie Gerryts
  Elmarie Gerryts
  Elmarie Gerryts is a retired pole vaulter from South Africa.She finished tenth at the 1999 World Championships and won the silver medal at the 1999 All-Africa Games...
  
  
• Qualifying — 4.30
• Final — NM

Women's Marathon

• Colleen De Reuck
  Colleen De Reuck
  Colleen S. De Reuck is a long-distance runner from South Africa, who became an American citizen on December 11, 2000...
  
  
• Final — 2:36:48 (→ 31st place)

Baseball

Baseball at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Baseball at the 2000 Summer Olympics was the third time an Olympic baseball tournament had been held as a full medal sport, and the ninth time it had been part of the Summer Olympic Games in any capacity. It was held in Sydney, Australia from 17 September through to the bronze and gold medal games...

South Africa's first appearance in the Olympic baseball tournament resulted in a last-place finish. The baseball team finished the preliminary round with a 1-6 record, having lost by 10 runs or more four times. The only team that South Africa defeated was the Netherlands

Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The Netherlands competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.-Medalists:- Gold:* Pieter van den Hoogenband — Swimming, Men's 100m Freestyle* Pieter van den Hoogenband — Swimming, Men's 200m Freestyle...

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Men's:

• Preliminaries (1-6)
• Lost to Cuba 0-16
• Lost to United States 1-11
• Lost to Italy 0-13
• Lost to Australia 4-10
• Lost to Japan 0-8
• Defeated Netherlands 3-2
• Lost to Korea 3-13 (→ did not advance)

• Team Roster
• Neil Adonis
  Neil Adonis
  Neil Isaac Adonis is a South African baseball player. Adonis competed for South Africa at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where he appeared in 3 games as the designated hitter , going 0-8 in his plate appearances.-References:...
  
  
• Clint Alfino
  Clint Alfino
  Clint Alfino is a South African baseball player. Alfino competed for South Africa at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where he appeared in 1 game as the designated hitter and 5 games as the left fielder, going 2-14 in his plate appearances with one run scored.-References:...
  
  
• Francisco Alfino
• Paul Bell
• Vaughn Berriman
• Jason Cook
• Errol Davis
• Simon de la Rey
• Nick Dempsey
• Ashley Dove
• Darryl Gonsalves
• Brian Harrell
• Tim Harrell
  Tim Harrell
  Timothy Allen Harrell is a South African professional baseball player. In the 1998 MLB Draft, Harrell was drafted in the 20th round by the Los Angeles Dodgers...
  
  
• Richard Harrell
• Ian Holness
• Kevin Johnson
• Willem Kemp
• More MacKay
• Liall Mauritz
• Glen Morris
• Alan Phillips
• Darryn Smith
  Darryn Smith
  Darryn Smith is a South African baseball pitcher. Smith competed for South Africa at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where he appeared in 1 game as the pitcher, giving up 3 runs in 3 innings against South Korea. Smith also pitched for South Africa at the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classic.-References:...
  
  
• Russell van Niekerk

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 48 kg

• Phumzile Matyhila
  • Round 1 — Bye
  • Round 2 — Lost to Suleiman Wanjau Bilali of Kenya (→ did not advance)

Men's 57 kg

• Jeffrey Mathebula
  Jeffrey Mathebula
  Jeffrey Mathebula is a professional boxer in the super bantamweight division. He is currently ranked as the fifth best super bantamweight in the world by Ring Magazine, and has been ranked in top ten best super bantamweights by Ring Magazine since mid-2009.-External links:...
  
  
  • Round 1 — Defeated Nouzeddine Medjehoud of Algeria
  • Round 2 — Lost to Bekzat Sattarkhanov
    Bekzat Sattarkhanov
    Bekzat Sattarkhanov was a Kazakh boxer who competed in the men's featherweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal....
    
     of Kazakhstan (→ did not advance)

Men's 81 kg

• Danie Venter
  • Round 1 — Defeated Ihab Alyousef of Syria
  • Round 2 — Lost to Gurcharan Singh of India (→ did not advance)

Men's Competition

Men's Kayak Singles 500 m

• Alan van Coller
  Alan van Coller
  Alan van Coller is a South African sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of eighth in the K-1 500 m event at Sydney in 2000.-References:*...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 01:41.805
• Semifinal — 01:40.656
• Final — 02:04.981 (→ 8th place)

Men's Kayak Singles 1000 m

• Alan van Coller
  Alan van Coller
  Alan van Coller is a South African sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of eighth in the K-1 500 m event at Sydney in 2000.-References:*...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 03:39.573
• Semifinal — 03:41.727 (→ did not advance)

Women's Competition

Women's Kayak Singles 500 m

• Ruth Nortje
  Ruth Nortje
  Ruth Nortje is a South African-born, American sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s. She won three medals for the United States at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo....
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 01:51.047
• Semifinal — Bye
• Final — 02:20.274 (→ 7th place)

Cross Country Mountain Bike

Women's Mountain Bike

• Erica Lynn Green
• Final — 2:03:32.37 (→ 25th place)

Road Cycling

Men's Road Race

• David George
• Final — 5:45:51 (→ 86th place)
• Robert Owen Hunter
• Final — DNF

Men's 1 km Time Trial

• Garen Bloch
• Final — 01:04.478 (→ 8th place)

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group D)
• South Africa 1 - 2 Japan
• South Africa 3 - 1 Brazil
• South Africa 1 - 2 Slovakia
• Quarterfinals
• Did not qualify → 11th place
• Team Roster
• Emile Baron
  Emile Baron
  Emile Baron is a South African football goalkeeper for Bidvest Wits in the Premier Soccer League and South Africa.-International career:...
  
  
• Fabian McCarthy
  Fabian McCarthy
  Fabian McCarthy is a South African football player who plays as a central defender for Moroka Swallows in the Premier Soccer League and South Africa....
  
  
• David Kannemeyer
  David Kannemeyer
  David Kannemeyer is a South African football defender for Supersport United and South Africa.-External links:* at National Football Teams...
  
  
• Nkhiphitheni Matombo
• Matthew Booth
• Quinton Fortune
• Stanton Fredericks
  Stanton Fredericks
  Stanton "Stiga" Fredericks is a South African football player who plays as midfielder for Bidvest Wits in the Premier Soccer League and has previously represented South Africa....
  
  
• Daniel Matsau
• Nkosinathi Nhleko
• Steve Lekoelea
  Steve Lekoelea
  Steve "Chippa" Lekoelea is a South African football midfielder for Premier Soccer League club Platinum Stars and South Africa....
  
  
• Jabu Pule
• Dumisa Ngobe
  Dumisa Ngobe
  Vincent Dumisa Ngobe is a retired South African football midfielder. He last plays for the South Africa national team and works currently as head of development by Mpumalanga Black Aces F.C.-Clubs:*1996–1997: Kaizer Chiefs...
  
  
• Abram Nteo
• Aaron Mokoena
  Aaron Mokoena
  Teboho Aaron Mokoena is a South African footballer who plays for and captains Football League Championship club Portsmouth and the South African national team.-Early career:...
  
  
• Siyabonga Nomvethe
  Siyabonga Nomvethe
  Siyabonga Eugene Nomvethe is a South African soccer player who has played in several European leagues, and now represents Moroka Swallows in the Premier Soccer League...
  
  
• Delron Buckley
  Delron Buckley
  Delron Sebastian Buckley is a South African footballer playing for Karlsruher SC.-Club career:Buckley's soccer career began with his local team Butcherfille Rovers Durban, but when he was 17 years old he was signed by German club VfL Bochum...
  
  
• Benni McCarthy
  Benni McCarthy
  Benedict Saul "Benni" McCarthy is a South African footballer who is currently contracted to Orlando Pirates in South Africa.McCarthy holds the record of international goals for a South African...
  
  
• Brian Baloyi
  Brian Baloyi
  Brian Baloyi is a retired South African football goalkeeper.Baloyi made his professional debut in 1993. He joined league rivals Mamelodi Sundowns in 2004 after playing for Kaizer Chiefs for over a decade...
  
  
• Lebohang Kukane
• Mzunani Mgwigwi
• Patrick Mbuthu
• Rowen Fernandez
  Rowen Fernandez
  Rowen Fernández is a South African footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Supersport United in the South African Premier Soccer League, as well as the South African national team...
  
  

Women's Competition

• Eliminated in Group D (1-1-2)
• Classification Match
• 7th-10th place: Lost to Great Britain
• Classification Match
• 9th-10th place: Defeated South Korea
  Korea at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  South Korea competed as Korea at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Athletes from North and South Korea marched together in the opening ceremony under the Korean Unification Flag.- Gold:*Yun Mi-Jin — Archery, Women's individual competition...
  
   → 9th place
• Team Roster:
• Marilyn Agliotti
  Marilyn Agliotti
  Marilyn Agliotti is a field hockey player from the Netherlands.After she moved to the Netherlands and was awarded a Dutch passport she represents the Dutch national team. She was selected for the 2007 European Championships in Manchester where the Dutch won the silver medal...
  
  
• Kerry Bee
• Caryn Bentley
• Lindsey Carlisle
• Pietie Coetzee
• Alison Dare
• Jacqueline Geyser
• Anli Kotze
• Michele MacNaughton
  Michele MacNaughton
  Michele MacNaughton is a retired female field hockey player from South Africa, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There she was a member of the women's national team that finished in tenth place.-References:*...
  
  
• Luntu Ntloko
• Karen Roberts
  Karen Roberts (field hockey)
  Karen Lynn Roberts is a retired female field hockey player from South Africa, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There she captained the women's national team that finished in tenth place.-References:*...
  
  
• Karen Symons
• Inke van Wyk
• Carina van Zyl
• Paola Vidulich
• Susan Wessels
  Susan Wessels-Webber
  Susan Wessels-Webber is a field hockey player from South Africa who represented her country at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. She captained the women's national team at the 2003 All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria, where South Africa won the title by defeating Nigeria 10-0.-References:*...
  
  

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:

• Karina Gerber — 4617 points (18th place)

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....

Men's Single Handed Dinghy (Finn)

• Ian Ainslie
• Race 1 — 7
• Race 2 — 17
• Race 3 — 14
• Race 4 — (19)
• Race 5 — (22)
• Race 6 — 15
• Race 7 — 7
• Race 8 — 7
• Race 9 — 12
• Race 10 — 9
• Race 11 — 11
• Final — 99 (→ 14th place)

Open Laser

• Gareth Blanckenberg
• Race 1 — (24)
• Race 2 — 10
• Race 3 — (32)
• Race 4 — 6
• Race 5 — 1
• Race 6 — 11
• Race 7 — 4
• Race 8 — 21
• Race 9 — 19
• Race 10 — 12
• Race 11 — 8
• Final — 92 (→ 9th place)

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

• Brendon Dedekind
  Brendon Dedekind
  Brendon Dedekind . He won an international championship gold medal in the 50 m freestyle at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. Nicknamed Skinny Man, he competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996, when he was a finalist in the 50 m...
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 22.46
• Semi-final — 22.39 (→ did not advance)
• Roland Schoeman
• Preliminary Heat — 22.53
• Semi-final — 22.41 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

• Roland Schoeman
• Preliminary Heat — 49.74
• Semi-final — 49.84 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

• Ryk Neethling
  Ryk Neethling
  Ryk Neethling is a South African swimmer. He won an Olympic gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He is the former joint owner of the 4×100 m freestyle relay world record and holds several South African records...
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

• Ryk Neethling
  Ryk Neethling
  Ryk Neethling is a South African swimmer. He won an Olympic gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He is the former joint owner of the 4×100 m freestyle relay world record and holds several South African records...
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 03:48.08
• Final — 03:48.52 (→ 8th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

• Ryk Neethling
  Ryk Neethling
  Ryk Neethling is a South African swimmer. He won an Olympic gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He is the former joint owner of the 4×100 m freestyle relay world record and holds several South African records...
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 15:09.12
• Final — 15:00.48 (→ 5th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

• Theo Verster
• Preliminary Heat — 53.95 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

• Theo Verster
• Preliminary Heat — 02:00.90 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

• Brett Petersen
• Preliminary Heat — 01:02.20
• Semi-final — 01:01.42
• Final — 01:01.63 (→ 7th place)
• Terence Parkin
  Terence Parkin
  Terence Parkin is a deaf swimmer from South Africa, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres breaststroke...
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 01:03.20 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

• Terence Parkin
  Terence Parkin
  Terence Parkin is a deaf swimmer from South Africa, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres breaststroke...
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 02:15.06
• Semi-final — 02:13.57
• Final — 02:12.50 (→ Silver Medal)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

• Simon Thirsk
• Preliminary Heat — 57.06 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

• Simon Thirsk
• Preliminary Heat — DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

• Terence Parkin
  Terence Parkin
  Terence Parkin is a deaf swimmer from South Africa, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres breaststroke...
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 02:03.33 (→ did not advance)
• Theo Verster
• Preliminary Heat — 02:03.64 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

• Terence Parkin
  Terence Parkin
  Terence Parkin is a deaf swimmer from South Africa, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres breaststroke...
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 04:18.14
• Final — 04:16.92 (→ 5th place)

Men's 4x100 m Freestyle

• Roland Schoeman, Brendon Dedekind
  Brendon Dedekind
  Brendon Dedekind . He won an international championship gold medal in the 50 m freestyle at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. Nicknamed Skinny Man, he competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996, when he was a finalist in the 50 m...
  
  , Nicholas Folker, Terence Parkin
  Terence Parkin
  Terence Parkin is a deaf swimmer from South Africa, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres breaststroke...
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 03:21.28 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x100 m Medley

• Simon Thirsk, Brett Petersen, Theo Verster, Nicholas Folker
• Preliminary Heat — 03:42.44 (→ did not advance)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

• Helene Muller
• Preliminary Heat — 26.07 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

• Helene Muller
• Preliminary Heat — 55.45 (→ did not advance)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

• Helene Muller
• Preliminary Heat — 01:59.89
• Semi-final — 02:00.04 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

• Mandy Loots
  Mandy Loots
  Mandy Loots is an Olympic and national-record-holding swimmer from South Africa. She swam for South Africa at the 1996, 2000 and 2008 Olympics....
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 59.94
• Semi-final — 59.63 (→ did not advance)
• Renate du Plessis
• Preliminary Heat — 01:01.32 (→ did not advance)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

• Mandy Loots
  Mandy Loots
  Mandy Loots is an Olympic and national-record-holding swimmer from South Africa. She swam for South Africa at the 1996, 2000 and 2008 Olympics....
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 02:11.38
• Semi-final — 02:10.58 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

• Penny Heyns
• Preliminary Heat — 01:07.85
• Semi-final — 01:08.33
• Final — 01:07.55 (→ Bronze Medal)
• Sarah Poewe
  Sarah Poewe
  Sarah Poewe is an Olympic Breaststroke swimmer, who has swum internationally for both South Africa and Germany....
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 01:08.06
• Semi-final — 01:07.48
• Final — 01:07.85 (→ 4th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

• Sarah Poewe
  Sarah Poewe
  Sarah Poewe is an Olympic Breaststroke swimmer, who has swum internationally for both South Africa and Germany....
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 02:27.84
• Semi-final — 02:25.54
• Final — 02:25.72 (→ 6th place)
• Penny Heyns
• Preliminary Heat — 02:30.17 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

• Charlene Wittstock
• Preliminary Heat — 01:03.18 (→ did not advance)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

• Irina Raevskaia
• Preliminary Heat — 02:16.13 (→ did not advance)

Women's 4x100 m Medley

• Mandy Loots
  Mandy Loots
  Mandy Loots is an Olympic and national-record-holding swimmer from South Africa. She swam for South Africa at the 1996, 2000 and 2008 Olympics....
  
  , Helene Muller, Sarah Poewe
  Sarah Poewe
  Sarah Poewe is an Olympic Breaststroke swimmer, who has swum internationally for both South Africa and Germany....
  
  , Charlene Wittstock
• Preliminary Heat — 04:07.19
• Final — 04:05.15 (→ 5th 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:...

Men's Individual Competition:

• Conrad Stoltz
  Conrad Stoltz
  Conrad Stoltz is a triathlete from South Africa.He competes in triathlons and is four time World Champion of the XTERRA Series and ITU Cross Triathlon World Champion of off-road triathlon races....
  
   — 1:50:24.39 (→ 20th place)

Women's Individual Competition:

• Lizel Moore
  Lizel Moore
  Lizel Moore is an athlete from South Africa, who competes in triathlon.Moore competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She took thirtieth place with a total time of 2:08:18.19.-References:...
  
  — 2:08:18.19 (→ 30th place)