At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, 46 events in athletics were contested, 24 for men and 22 for women. There were a total number of 2,134 participating athletes from 193 countries.
Medal table
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Participating nations
A total of 193 nations participated in the different athletics events at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Two athletes from East Timor participated as individual Olympic athletes. A total of 2135 athletes competed at the competition.
Medal summary
Men
{|
|-
|100 metres<br />
|||9.87
|||9.99
|||10.04
|-
|200 metres<br />
|||20.09
|||20.14
|||20.20
|-
|400 metres<br />
|||43.84
|||44.40
|||44.70
|-
|800 metres<br />
|||1:45.08
|||1:45.14
|||1:45.16
|-
|1500 metres<br />
|||3:32.07<br /><small>(OR)</small>
|||3:32.32
|||3:32.44
|-
|5000 metres<br />
|||13:35.49
|||13:36.20
|||13:36.47
|-
|10,000 metres<br />
|||27:18.20
|||27:18.29
|||27:19.75
|-
|110 metres hurdles<br />
|||13.00
|||13.16
|||13.22
|-
|400 metres hurdles<br />
|||47.50
|||47.53
|||47.81
|-
|3000 metres<br />steeplechase<br />
|||8:21.43
|||8:21.77
|||8:22.15
|-valign="top"
|4 × 100 metres relay<br />
|valign=top|<br />Jon Drummond<br />Bernard Williams<br />Brian Lewis<br />Maurice Greene<br />Tim Montgomery*<br />Kenneth Brokenburr*||37.61
|valign=top|<br />Vicente Lenilson<br />Édson Ribeiro<br />André da Silva<br />Claudinei Quirino<br />Cláudio Souza*||37.90
|valign=top|<br />Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda<br />Ivan García<br />Freddy Mayola<br />José Ángel César||38.04
|-valign="top"
|4 × 400 metres relay<br />
|valign=top|<br />Clement Chukwu<br />Jude Monye<br />Sunday Bada<br />Enefiok Udo-Obong<br />Nduka Awazie*<br />Fidelis Gadzama*||2:58.68
|valign=top|<br />Michael Blackwood<br />Greg Haughton<br />Christopher Williams<br />Danny McFarlane<br />Sanjay Ayre*<br />Michael McDonald*||2:58.78
|valign=top|<br />Avard Moncur<br />Troy McIntosh<br />Carl Oliver<br />Chris Brown<br />Timothy Munnings* || 2:59.23
|-
|Marathon<br />
|||2:10:11
|||2:10:31
|||2:11:10
|-
|20 kilometres walk<br />
|||1:18:59<br /><small>(OR) </small>
|||1:19:03
|||1:19:27
|-
|50 kilometres walk<br />
|||3:42:22
|||3:43:40
|||3:44:36
|-
|High jump<br />
|||2.35 m
|||2.32 m
|||2.32 m
|-
|Pole vault<br />
|||5.90 m
|||5.90 m
|||5.90 m
|-
|Long jump<br />
|||8.55 m
|||8.49 m
|||8.31 m
|-
|Triple jump<br />
|||17.71 m
|||17.47 m
|||17.46 m
|-
|Shot put<br />
|||21.29 m
|||21.21 m
|||21.20 m
|-
|Discus throw<br />
|||69.30 m
|||68.50 m
|||68.19 m
|-
|Hammer throw<br />
|||80.02 m
|||79.64 m
|||79.17 m
|-
|Javelin throw<br />
|||90.17 m<br /><small>(OR)</small>
|||89.85 m
|||88.67 m
|-
|Decathlon<br />
|||8642
|||8606
|||8595
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.
Women
{|
|-
|rowspan=2|100 metres<br />
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|colspan=2 rowspan=2|Not awarded
|||11.12
|rowspan=2||| rowspan=2|11.19
|-
|||11.18
|-
|200 metres<br />
|
|-
|Pole vault<br />
|||4.60 m<br /><small>(OR)</small>
|||4.55 m
|||4.50 m
|-
|Long jump<br />
|||6.99 m
|||6.92 m
| ||6.83 m
|-
|Triple jump<br />
|||15.20 m
|||15.00 m
|||14.96 m
|-
|Shot put<br />
|||20.56 m
|||19.92 m
|||19.62 m
|-
|Discus throw<br />
|||68.40 m
|||65.71 m
|||65.20 m
|-
|Hammer throw<br />
|||71.16 m
|||69.77 m
|||69.28 m
|-
|Javelin throw<br />
|||68.91 m<br /><small>(OR)</small>
|||67.51 m
|||66.18 m
|-
|Heptathlon<br />
|||6584
|||6531
|||6527
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.
See also
- Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Qualification
- Athletics at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- 2000 in athletics (track and field)