Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. British athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games. 310 competitors, 181 men and 129 women, took part in 179 events in 23 sports. These were the first Summer Olympics in which the team of selected athletes was officially known as Team GB in a highly successful attempt to unify all the competing athletes across all the sports and events and boost team morale. Going into the games following their exceptionally poor performance in Atlanta widespread expectations of the team were low.
The Sydney Games was at the time the best performance by Great Britain in the Summer Olympic Games since 1920, with British competitors winning a total of 28 medals, 11 of which were gold. This represented a vast improvement in performance over the previous Summer Olympics in 1996, in which Great Britain won only one gold medal and 15 in total, and was the first of five consecutive Summer Olympics in which Great Britain would not only dramatically increase its overall performance and expectations but also see them dramatically increase its overall Summer Olympics medal tally. This was also the first Summer Olympic Games where British competitors benefited from £58.9m of National Lottery funding when it was introduced in 1997.
Medallists
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Multiple medallists
The following Team GB competitors won multiple medals at the 2000 Olympic Games.
Archery
The three British archers had a combined record of 3-3.
Athletics
Men
Track & road events
Field events
Combined events – Decathlon
Women
Track & road events
Field events
Combined events – Heptathlon
Badminton
Men
Women
Mixed
Boxing
Canoeing
Slalom
Sprint
Cycling
Road
Men
Women
Track
Sprint
Pursuit
Qualification legend: FA=Gold medal final; FB=Bronze medal final
Keirin
Time trial
Omnium
Mountain biking
Diving
Men
Women
Equestrian
Fencing
Three fencers, two men and one woman, represented Great Britain in 2000.
Gymnastics
Lisa Mason, Annika Reeder, Emma Williams, Sharna Murray, Kelly Hackman & Paula Thomas represented Great Britain. The Team placed 10th which was the highest placing attained by GBR Women's Artistic Gymnastics at an Olympic Games.
Artistic
Men
Women
Team
Individual finals
Trampoline
Field hockey
Men's tournament
Squad
Head coach: Barry Dancer
Simon Mason (GK)
David Luckes (GK)
Jon Wyatt (c)
Julian Halls
Tom Bertram
Craig Parnham
Guy Fordham
Ben Sharpe
Mark Pearn
Jimmy Wallis
Brett Garrard
Bill Waugh
Daniel Hall
Michael Johnson
Calum Giles
David Hacker
Group stage
5th–8th classification
Crossover
5th–6th place final
Women's tournament
Squad
Head coach: Chris Spice
Carolyn Reid (GK)
Hilary Rose (GK)
Kirsty Bowden
Jane Smith
Melanie Clewlow
Christina Cullen
Kath Johnson
Lucilla Wright
Jane Sixsmith
Rhona Simpson
Denise Marston-Smith
Helen Richardson
Fiona Greenham
Pauline Stott (c)
Kate Walsh
Mandy Nicholson
Group stage
7th–10th classification
Crossover
7th–8th place final
Judo
Men
Women
Modern pentathlon
Rowing
Men
Women
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; R=Repechage
Sailing
Great Britain competed in ten of the eleven Sailing events at the Sydney Olympics. They won three gold medals and two silver medals.
Men
Women
Open
Fleet racing
Match racing
Shooting
Swimming
Men
Qualifiers for the latter rounds (Q) of all events were decided on a time only basis, therefore positions shown are overall results versus competitors in all heats.
* Competed in the heats only
Women
Qualifiers for the latter rounds (Q) of all events were decided on a time only basis, therefore positions shown are overall results versus competitors in all heats.
Table tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
Men
Women
Triathlon
The three British triathletes that finished the inaugural Olympic triathlon placed highly, with none lower than fifteenth place and two in the top ten. However, three more British athletes did not finish the competition.
Weightlifting
See also
Great Britain at the Olympics
Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Notes
Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. .
International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
International Olympic Committee Web Site
Gymnastics Results
References
Nations at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000
Summer Olympics