Olympic summer games 2000

the plays of the XXVII. 15 found Olympiad of. September up to the 1. October 2000 in the Australian Sydney instead of. Sydney was entrusted 1993 with delivering. Other candidate cities were Peking, Manchester, Berlin and Istanbul.

table of contents 1 high points 2 outstanding sportsmen 3 worth mentioning of 4 competitions 5 Web on the left of 6 see also

high points

• Cathy Freeman won with its olympia victory over 400 meters as the first Aborigine medal with olympic plays. Days before it had 11 with the opening celebration as indication of the desiredAustralian reconciliation the olympic fire ignites.

• As a first woman Marion Jones ( the USA) won 5 medals at one time with the same olympic plays. Had aimed at it to win in all 5 competitions, in which it began, gold. In the long run it won three times gold and twiceBronze.

silver medal won

• outstanding sportsmen of the 17-jährige Australian Ian Thorpe in swimming 3 gold medals and, whereby it improved its world record over 400 m freestyle and with the relays over 4x200 m and 4x100 m freestyle likewise new world records set up.

• Most successful Sportlerinthe plays was the Netherlands Radfahrerin Leontien Zijlaard with three gold medals and silver medal.

• Like 1996 in Atlanta the Russian Turner Alexej Nemov with two gold , already won most medals silver and three bronze medals.

worth mentioning

• the German Freistilringer Alexander Leipoldwas doped in Sydney. He had to return the achieved gold medal and from the olympic plays Sydney 2000 was later excluded.

• Fahnenträgerin of the German crew with the opening celebration was the Kanutin Birgit Fischer from Kleinmachnow.

• The Britisher Steve Redgrave won from 1984 in Los Angelesuntil 2000 in Sydney with all olympic plays in rudders the gold medal.

• The Kubaner Félix Savón won Teófilo Stevenson in Sydney as a third olympic sportsman after László sticks and with three sequential olympic plays in boxes the gold medal.

• With the closing ceremony Kylie Minogue steppedup and did not only sing to its Australian No. 1-Hit on A Night Like This, but also the ABBA - classical author Dancing Queen.

• Eric Moussambani, the slowest participant (1: 56), which one olympic 100-m-Freistil-Rennen each has denied - and even won -. The man outEquatorial Guinea learned to swim only in January 2000 and fought on the two 50m-Bahnen more it swam. But Eric “the Aal” did not only come into the goal - because both advance opponents were this-qualified because of false starts, it his running even had won - and was promoted toStar of the plays.

competitions

bath min clay/tone baseball basketball elbow shooting boxes fencing Feldhockey football Gewichtheben hand ball Judo Kanu Leichtathletik modern five-fight cycle racing riding

rhythmic sport gymnastic rings rudders shooting swimming sails soft ball Taekwondo tennis table tennis Trampolinturnen Triathlon doing gymnastics Volleyball Wasserball Wasserspringen

Web on the left of

• http://www.olympic.org/ - to side of the IOC to the olympic plays 2000

see also

• international olympic committee,
• list of the olympic land contractions
• Sydney Olympic park