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Games of the XXVII Olympiad - Sydney 2000
Date: 15 September - 1 October.
Country: 199.
Athletes: 10,551 (6,582 men, 4,049 women)
Sports: 28.
Events: 300.
Official opening of the Games by:
Sir William Deane, Governor General of Australia.
Olympic flame: - Cathy Freeman (athletics).
Olympic flag: - Rechelle Hawkes (hockey).
Official oath: - Peter Kerr (water polo).
Number of medal-winning nations: 80.
National medal total:
1. USA 97 (40, 24, 33).
   
                   
      After 44 years Australia again hosted the Games (first time Melbourne 1956).
A record number of athletes and participant nations resulted in a record number of medal-winning nations – 80, and the excellent organisation renewed faith in the Games and the Olympic movement somewhat lost in Atlanta because of the transport problems, informational system…
The opening ceremony saw North and South Korea marching behind the same flag, but they competed in separate teams.
Britain’s Steven Redgrave (rowing) won his fifth medal at his fifth Games and became the first Olympian (not only rower) to achieve this. Germany’s Birgit Fischer became the first female Olympian to win a gold medal (two actually) after 20 years.

Yugoslavia participated with 111 athletes in 14 sports and won 3 medals - gold was won by men’s volleyball team, silver by Jasna Šekarić and bronze by men’s water polo team.

Candidate cities: Beijing, Berlin, Istanbul and Manchester. 		 
The most successful athlete: Marion Jones (USA), won five medals		  
               
     

SPORTS (28)

    
 		  
     
  • Aquatics1
  • Athletics
  • Baseball
  • Badminton
  • Cycling
  • Boxing
  • Rowing
  • Gymnastics
  • Weightlifting
  • Sailing
  • Canoe/kayak
  • Equestrian
  • Basketball
  • Fencing
  • Modern Pentathlon
  • Volleyball
  • Wrestling
  • Handball
  • Softball
  • Table tennis
  • Archery
  • Shooting
  • Taekwando
  • Tennis
  • Triathlon
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Judo
  1 - swimming, diving, water polo and starting with 1984, synchronized swimming  
             
     

NATIONAL MEDAL TOTAL

      
     
  Country Gold Silver Bronze
1. USA 40 24 33
2. RUSSIA 32 28 28
3. CHINA 28 16 15
4. AUSTRALIA 16 25 17
5. GERMANY 13 17 26
6. FRANCE 13 14 11
7. ITALY 13 8 13
8. NETHERLANDS 12  9 4
9. CUBA 11 11 7
10. GREAT BRITAIN 11 10 7
11. ROMANIA 11 6 8
12. SOUTH KOREA 8 10 10
13. HUNGARY 8 6 3
14. POLAND 6 5 3
15. JAPAN 5 8 5
16. BULGARIA 5 6 2
17. GREECE 4 6 3
18. SWEDEN 4 5 3
19. NORWAY 4 3 3
20. ETHIOPIA 4 1 3
21. UKRAINE 3 10 10
22. KAZAKHSTAN 3 4 0
23. BELARUS 3 3 11
24. CANADA 3 3 8
25. SPAIN 3 3 5
26. TURKEY 3 0 2
27. IRAN 3 0 1
28. CZECH REPUBLIC 2 3 3
29. KENYA 2 3 2
30. DENMARK 2 3 1
31. FINLAND 2 1 1
32. AUSTRIA 2 1 0
33. LITHUANIA 2 0 3
34. AZERBAIJAN 2 0 1
35. SLOVENIA 2 0 0
36. SWITZERLAND 1 6 2
37. INDONESIA 1 3 2
38. SLOVAKIA 1 3 1
39. MEXICO 1 2 3
40. ALGERIA 1 1 3
41. UZBEKISTAN 1 1 2
42. YUGOSLAVIA 1 1 1
43. LATVIA 1 1 1
44. BAHAMAS 1 1 0
45. NEW ZEALAND 1 0 3
46. THAILAND 1 0 2
47. ESTONIA 1 0 2
48. CROATIA 1 0 1
49. MOZAMBIQUE 1 0 0
50. CAMEROON 1 0 0
51. COLOMBIA 1 0 0
52. BRAZIL 0 6 6
53. JAMAICA 0 4 3
54. NIGERIA 0 3 0
55. SOUTH AFRICA 0 2 3
56. BELGIUM 0 2 3
57. ARGENTINA 0 2 2
58. TAIWAN 0 1 4
59. MOROCCO 0 1 4
60. DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA 0 1 3
61. SOUTH ARABIA 0 1 1
62. MOLDOVA 0 1 1
63. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 0 1 1
64. IRELAND 0 1 0
65. VIETNAM 0 1 0
66. URUGUAY 0 1 0
67. GEORGIA 0 0 6
68. COSTA RICA 0 0 2
69. PORTUGAL 0 0 2
70. QUATAR 0 0 1
71. KUWAIT 0 0 1
72. KYRGYZSTAN 0 0 1
73. SRI LANKA 0 0 1
74. CHILE 0 0 1
75. ARMENIA 0 0 1
76. BARBADOS 0 0 1
77. MACEDONIA 0 0 1
78. ISRAEL 0 0 1
79. ICELAND 0 0 1
80. INDIA 0 0 1
     
             
           
                   
             
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