# Venezuela at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Venezuela competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 50 competitors, 36 men and 14 women, took part in 49 events in 17 sports.

## Athletics
### Key

* Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
* Q = Qualified for the next round
* q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
* NR = National record
* N/A = Round not applicable for the event
* Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

### Track & road events

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| José Carabalí Juan Morillo Hely Ollarves José Peña | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.45 s | 20 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Carlos Tarazona | Marathon | — | — | — | — | 2:20:39 | 40 |
| José Alejandro Semprún | Marathon | — | — | — | — | 3:00:02 | 79 |

## Boxing

| Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| José Luis Varela | Light flyweight | M Romero (CUB) L 11–15 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Nehomar Cermeño | Bantamweight | R Durgahed (MRI) W 16–4 | A Agaguloglu (TUR) L 3-11 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Patrick López | Lightweight | N Schuster (GER) W 24–10 | A Maletin (RUS) L RSC | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Hely Yánes | Light Middleweight | N Kasenov (KGZ) W 20–12 | Y Ibraimov (KAZ) L RSC | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Cycling
### Road Cycling
#### Men

| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Omar Pumar | Road race | 5:30:46 | 50 |
| Manuel Guevara | Road race | 5:42:43 | 83 |
| Carlos Maya | Road race | 5:42:43 | 84 |
| Alexis Méndez | Road race | 5:52:47 | 88 |

### Track Cycling
#### Sprint

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Round 1 | Repechage 1 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time Speed (km/h) | Rank | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Opposition Time Speed (km/h) | Rank |
| Daniela Larreal | Women's sprint | 11.526 (62.467) | 5 | T Lindenmuth (USA) W | N/A | M Ferris (AUS)L | Did not advance | Classification 5-8 S Szabolcsi (HUN) T Lindenmuth (USA) T Dubnicoff (CAN) L | 8 |

#### Time trial

| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Daniela Larreal | Women's time trial | 35.728 | 10 |

## Diving
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Ramón Fumadó | 3 m springboard | 343.89 | 28 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Luis Villarroel | 3 m springboard | 365.97 | 21 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Luis Villarroel | 10 m platform | 309.66 | 35 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Alejandra Fuentes | 3 m springboard | 219.81 | 37 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Fencing

One male fencer represented Venezuela in 2000.

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Carlos Rodríguez | Men's foil | Bye | I Mamedov (RUS) W 15–14 | S Sanzo (ITA) L 7-15 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Gymnastics
### Artistic
#### Women

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Qualification | Qualification | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Total | Rank | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | F | V | UB | BB | Total | Rank | F | V | UB | BB | Total | Rank |
| Arlen Lovera | All-around | 9.087 | 9.362 | 9.300 | 8.575 | 36.324 | 50 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Judo
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Reiver Alvarenga | Men's 60 kg | Bye | D Narmandakh (MGL) L | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Ludwig Ortíz | Men's 66 kg | Bye | P Caravana (POR) L | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Eduardo Manglés | Men's 73 kg | Bye | M Almeida (POR) L | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Hermágoras Manglés | Men's 81 kg | Bye | Kwak O (PRK) L | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Luis René López | Men's 90 kg | — | C Santiago (PUR) L | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Luís Gregorio López | Men's 100 kg | Bye | D Gowing (NZL) L | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Douglas Cardozo | Men's +100 kg | Bye | D Douillet (FRA) L | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Jackelin Díaz | Women's 52 kg | I Aluaş (ROU) L | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Xiomara Griffith | Women's 70 kg | Y Scapin (ITA) L | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Sailing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Net points | Final rank |
| Athlete | Event | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Net points | Final rank |
| Yamil Saba Fuentes | Mistral | 18 | 30 | 37 | 15 | 20 | 29 | 34 | 32 | 24 | 10 | 22 | 200 | 27 |

## Shooting
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Felipe Beuvrín | 10 m air pistol | 569 | 30 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Felipe Beuvrín | 50 m pistol | 542 | 34 | Did not advance | Did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| María Gabriela Franco | 10 m air pistol | 366 | 39 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| María Gabriela Franco | 25 m pistol | 563 | 37 | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Swimming
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Francisco Sánchez | 50 m freestyle | DNS | DNS | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Francisco Sánchez | 100 m freestyle | 52.43 | 50 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Francisco Páez | 200 m freestyle | 1:54.32 | 35 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Ricardo Monasterio | 400 m freestyle | 3:55.35 | 23 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Ricardo Monasterio | 1500 m freestyle | 15:17.00 | 15 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Francisco Sánchez | 100 m butterfly | 54.56 | 29 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Oswaldo Quevedo | 100 m butterfly | 55.55 | 39 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Carlos Santander Oswaldo Quevedo Francisco Páez Francisco Sánchez | 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | 3:24.64 | 17 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Synchronized swimming

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Technical | Free | Total | Rank | Technical | Free | Total | Rank |
| Jenny Castro Bravo Virginia Ruiz | Duet | 29.750 | 54.036 | 83.786 | 21 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Table tennis

| Athlete | Event | Group round | Group round | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Fabiola Ramos | Women's singles | Group K Chen-Tonf F (TPE) L 0 – 3 Kovtun O (UKR) L 0-3 | 3 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Taekwondo

| Athlete | Event | Preliminary round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Adriana Carmona | Women's +67 kg | BYE | M Baverel (FRA) W 8–3 | Chen Z (CHN) L 6–8 | D Bosshart (CAN) L 8–9 | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Tennis
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| José de Armas Jimy Szymanski | Doubles | M Ančić / G Ivanišević (CRO) W 6–2, 7–6$^{(7–3)}$ | S Lareau / D Nestor (CAN) L 3–6, 4–6 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| María Alejandra Vento | Singles | A Hopmans (NED) W 6–3, 6–3 | S Appelmans (BEL) L 2–6, 2–6 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| María Alejandra Vento Milagros Sequera | Doubles | — | E Gagliardi / M Vavrinec (SUI) W 6–2, 7–5 | L Montalvo / P Suárez (ARG) W 6–4, 6–1 | E Callens / D van Roost (BEL) L 6–4, 5–7, 4–6 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Triathlon
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Swimming | Cycling | Running | Total Time | Rank |
| Gilberto González | Men's | 18:54.49 | 58:40.40 | 34:38.14 | 1:52:13.03 | 37 |

## Weightlifting
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Julio César Luna | Men's 94 kg | 177,5 | 9 | 215 | 8 | 392,5 | 8 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Karla Fernández | Women's 53 kg | 80 | 8 | 95 | 9 | 175 | 9 |

## Wrestling

* VT – Victory by Fall.
* PP – Decision by Points – the loser with technical points.
* PO – Decision by Points – the loser without technical points.

### Men's Greco-Roman

| Athlete | Event | Group round | Group round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Eddy Bartolozzi | 85 kg | Group 5 A Olczak (AUS) W 3-0 PO M Lidberg (SWE) L 1-3 PP S Bárdosi (HUN) L 0–3 PO | 3 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | 11 |
| Rafael Barreno | 130 kg | Group 3 G Saldadze (UKR) L 0-3 PO L Kovacs (AUS)W 3-0 PO | 2 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | 12 |