Venues of the 2000 Summer Olympics
Venues -- Sydney
Table:
Venue

Sports

Capacity

Ref.

Blacktown Olympic Park
Baseball, Softball
3,000 (baseball),
2,000 (softball)

[10]

Bondi Beach
Volleyball (beach)
10,000

[11]

Centennial Parklands
Cycling (road)
Not listed.

[12]

Dunc Gray Velodrome
Cycling (track)
3,150

[13]

Marathon course
Athletics (marathon)
Not listed.

[14]

North Sydney
Athletics (marathon start)
Not listed.

[14]

Olympic Sailing Shore Base
Sailing
10,000

[15]

Penrith Whitewater Stadium
Canoeing (slalom)
12,500

[16]

Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre
Water polo
3,900

[17]

Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
Boxing, Fencing, Judo, Weightlifting, Wrestling
7,500 (weightlifting),
9,000 (judo & wrestling),
10,000 (boxing & fencing)

[18]

Sydney Entertainment Centre
Volleyball
11,000

[19]

Sydney Football Stadium
Football (women's final)
42,500

[20]

Sydney International Equestrian Centre
Equestrian
50,000

[21]

Sydney International Regatta Centre
Canoeing (sprint), Rowing
20,000

[22]

Sydney International Shooting Centre
Shooting
7,000

[23]

Sydney Opera House
Triathlon
Not listed.

[24]

Western Sydney Parklands
Cycling (mountain biking)
20,000

[25]

Considering the accompanying table and the supporting evidence listed.

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Blacktown International Sportspark ( formally known as Blacktown Olympic Park ) is a multi-sports venue located in Rooty Hill , a suburb in Sydney , Australia . The venue includes two cricket grounds , which have also been used for Australian rules football , an athletics track and field , three baseball diamonds , two soccer fields , four softball diamonds , administration centers and park land . It was constructed for the 2000 Sydney Olympics to host softball and baseball events . The facilities have since been used as a training and administrative base for the Greater Western Sydney Giants from 2010 to 2012 , and for the Western Sydney Wanderers FC since 2012 . Since 2010 the Sydney Blue Sox of the Australian Baseball League have used the main baseball stadium as their home field .
Final results for the Softball competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics :
Bondi Beach ( /ˈbɒndaɪ/ ) is a popular beach and the name of the surrounding suburb in Sydney , New South Wales , Australia . Bondi Beach is located 7 km ( 4 mi ) east of the Sydney central business district , in the local government area of Waverley Council , in the Eastern Suburbs . Bondi , North Bondi , and Bondi Junction are neighbouring suburbs . Bondi Beach is one of the most visited tourist sites in Australia .
Centennial Parklands is the name given to a group of three urban parklands located in the eastern suburbs of Sydney , New South Wales , Australia . Comprising approximately 360 hectares ( 890 acres ) , the lands encompass Centennial Park , Moore Park and Queen 's Park . The Parklands are listed on the New South Wales Heritage Register , with various components of national , state or local heritage significance . The parks are contained within the local government areas of City of Randwick , Waverley Municipal Council , and City of Sydney . The parklands are managed by the Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust , trading as the Botanic Gardens and Centennial Parklands . The Trust is administered by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage , an agency of the Government of New South Wales . The Parklands were added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 27 March 2000 .
At the 2000 Summer Olympics , 3 different bicycle racing disciplines were contested : Road cycling , track cycling , and mountain biking .
The Dunc Gray Velodrome is an Australian velodrome located at Bass Hill approximately 5 kilometres north west of the Sydney suburb of Bankstown . The cycling venue for the 2000 Olympic games , the Dunc Gray Velodrome was opened on 28 November 1999 and is named after Dunc Gray , the first Australian to win a cycling Gold Medal at the Olympic Games ( Los Angeles 1932 ) . At the time of its construction , the State Government owned the velodrome . Bankstown Council managed the velodrome under a sublease . In 1998 , the council sublet the velodrome to Bankstown Sports Club , under a 21-year sublease . The council is scheduled to resume control of the velodrome in 2019 .
North Sydney is a suburb and major district on the Lower North Shore of Sydney , Australia . North Sydney is located 3 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of North Sydney Council .
Rushcutters Bay is a harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney , in the state of New South Wales , Australia 3 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district , in the local government area of the City of Sydney . The suburb of Rushcutters Bay sits beside the bay it takes its name from , on Sydney Harbour . It is surrounded by the suburbs of Elizabeth Bay , Darlinghurst , Paddington , and Darling Point . Kings Cross is a locality on the western border .
Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was held from 17-30 September 2000 at the Olympic Sailing Shore Base in the Sydney Harbour . The quota for sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics was 400 , of which 124 positions were for men , 92 for women and 184 'open ' to men or women . The Sailing Program of 2000 consisted of a total of eleven sailing classes ( disciplines ) . For each class with the exception of the Soling and the 49er , eleven races were scheduled from 17-30 September 2000 . For the Soling six fleet races were scheduled followed by a series of match races for the top twelve boats of the fleet race result . The 49er had sixteen scheduled fleet races . The sailing was done on six course areas and several types of course configurations . The Sydney 2000 Games featured a name change for the sport , previously known as yachting .
The Penrith Whitewater Stadium is located near Sydney , Australia . It is an artificial whitewater sporting facility which hosted the canoe/kayak slalom events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney . The facility is part of the Penrith Lakes Scheme , which is converting open-pit sand and gravel mines into lakes for recreation . It is close to Cranebrook and is adjacent to the Sydney International Regatta Centre . These lakes are not filled via the Nepean River , but are filled via rain water and ground water . The operation of the facility aerates the water and improves water quality in the flat water rowing and canoeing course .
Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held at the Sydney International Regatta Centre for the sprint events and the Whitewater Stadium in Penrith for the canoe and kayak slalom disciplines . The repechage rounds that ran from the 1960 to the 1996 Games were eliminated in the sprint events while qualifying rounds were added to the slalom events . Additionally , a quota system for each event was enacted , meaning each event had a limited number of competitors that could compete . A total of 16 events were contested , 12 sprint events ( 9 for men and 3 for women ) and 4 slalom events ( 3 for men and 1 for women ) .
The Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre is an aquatics venue located in Ryde , New South Wales , Australia . The original venue was demolished in November 1998 with rebuilding commencing in April 1999 . Rebuilding was completed in April 2000 with opening in May 2000 . During the 2000 Summer Olympics , it hosted the water polo preliminaries and the women 's semifinals .
The Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre , completed in 1988 and closed in 2013 to undergo demolition and revitalisation , was Australia 's first fully integrated convention , exhibition and entertainment precinct . The new Centre , renamed as the International Convention Centre Sydney , was built on the footprint of the 1988 Centre and was opened in December 2016 . The new venue is part of an AU $ 3.4b revitalisation of Darling Harbour by the NSW Government . An interim facility for large consumer and trade shows , the Sydney Exhibition Centre @ Glebe Island , opened in February 2014 and operated during the construction of the new Darling Harbour facilities .
The boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , Australia was held at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour . The event was only open to men and bouts were contested over four rounds of two minutes each . Five judges scored the fighters in real time and the boxer with the most points at the end was the winner . Like other Olympic combat sports , two bronze medals are awarded ; in the case of boxing , both losing semi-finalists receive a bronze medal , with no further play-off . As a result , the quarter-final essentially equates to a bronze medal match , a semi-final to a silver medal match , and the final to a gold medal match . 48 medals are therefore available , half of which are bronze medals .
At the 2000 Summer Olympics , ten fencing events were contested . Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types ( épée , foil and sabre ) . Women competed in the foil and the épée events . The events took place at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre .
Final results for the Judo events at the 2000 Summer Olympics :
The Weightlifting Competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , Australia saw the introduction of women 's weightlifting .
Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place in the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre and was split into two disciplines , Freestyle and Greco-Roman which are further divided into different weight categories . The freestyle competitions were held from 28 September to 1 October , and the Greco-Roman events were held from 24 to 27 September . In the freestyle 76 kg Alexander Leipold of Germany originally placed first , but was disqualified after he tested positive for Nandrolone .
Sydney Entertainment Centre ( later known as Qantas Credit Union Arena ) was a multi-purpose arena located in Haymarket , Sydney , Australia . It opened in May 1983 , to replace Sydney Stadium , which had been demolished in 1970 to make way for the Eastern Suburbs railway line . The centre was owned by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority , which administered the neighbouring Darling Harbour area , and managed under a lease . It was one of Sydney 's larger concert venues , licensed to accommodate over 13,000 people as a conventional theatre or 8,000 as a theatre-in-the-round . It was the largest permanent concert venue in Sydney until 1999 , when the Sydney Super Dome opened at Sydney Olympic Park . The venue averaged attendances of 1 million people each year and hosted concerts , family shows , sporting events and corporate events . It was demolished in January 2016 .
The Sydney Football Stadium , commercially known as Allianz Stadium and previously Aussie Stadium , was a football stadium in Moore Park , Sydney , Australia . Built in 1988 next to the Sydney Cricket Ground , the stadium was Sydney 's premier rectangular field venue for rugby league , rugby union , and football . The Kangaroos , the Wallabies , and the Socceroos occasionally played at the stadium , while the Sydney Roosters , NSW Waratahs , and Sydney FC were the ground 's major tenants . The stadium usually held both National Rugby League semi finals and one preliminary final , and also held the annual pre-season Charity Shield football match between South Sydney and St George Illawarra for a number of years . It hosted all New South Wales Rugby League/Australian Rugby League rugby league grand finals , as well as the first grand final under the NRL banner , between 1988 and 1998 . The NSW Government announced plans in November 2017 for the stadium to be knocked down and rebuilt . The stadium closed in October 2018 , with the last event being a Michael Buble concert . Demolition began in early 2019 , continuing after several legal challenges and becoming a major issue during the 2019 New South Wales state election .
The Sydney International Equestrian Centre ( SIEC for short ) is the facility which was used to host equestrian events during the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2000 Summer Paralympics . The centre is located 45 kilometres from Sydney 's business district and the harbour at Saxony Road , Horsley Park . Construction began in 1997 , was finished in 1999 and it successfully hosted Olympic and Paralympic equestrian events in 2000 .
The equestrian events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney included dressage , eventing , and show jumping . All three disciplines had both individual and team competitions .
The Sydney International Regatta Centre , located in Penrith , Sydney , New South Wales , Australia , is a rowing and canoe sprint venue built for the 2000 Summer Olympics . It is now a popular sporting venue , with the Head of the River Regatta held annually here . Defqon.1 Weekend Festival Australia is also held here ; as a newly established and reasonably popular hard dance music event Defqon.1 Festival requires a large venue which is somewhat removed from residences , making the Regatta Centre an ideal location . In May 2012 the second round of the UIM world powerboat championships for Blown Alcohol and 6 Litre boats was held here over 3 days and will return in 2013 It is part of the Penrith Lakes . The site is managed by NSW Sport and Recreation .
Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in Penrith , New South Wales , Australia . It featured 547 competitors ( 363 men and 184 women ) from 51 nations taking part in 14 events . The medals were split among 20 nations . Romania was the most successful nation , topping the medal table with three golds , all won in the women 's events . Despite finishing second , Germany also dominated the medal table with six in overall . Great Britain and France , on the other hand , had a two-way tie for third place in the standings , with two golds and three in overall . The men 's rowing events became most notable for Great Britain 's Steve Redgrave , who won his fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal for the coxless four . He first won at Los Angeles in 1984 , followed by gold medals in 1988 , 1992 , 1996 , and 2000 , a record span of 16 years between his first and last gold medal . It was also his sixth overall Olympic medal , having won the bronze in 1988 for the coxed pair . At age 38 , Redgrave also became the oldest male rower to win an Olympic gold medal , until he was surpassed by Australia 's James Tomkins at the subsequent games . Tomkins , competing in his fourth games , won the bronze medal , and third medal overall for the men 's coxless pair with his partner Matthew Long . In the women 's rowing events , Romania 's Elisabeta Lipă won her third consecutive Olympic gold medal and fourth overall .
The Sydney International Shooting Centre in Cecil Park , New South Wales , Australia was built for the shooting events at the 2000 Summer Olympics . It has also been used for :
The shooting competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics were carried out at the Sydney International Shooting Centre in Liverpool , New South Wales , Australia during the first week of the Games , from Saturday 16 September 2000 to Saturday 23 September 2000 . While the rifle , pistol and running target rules were largely unchanged from the Atlanta Games , two new shotgun events were added ( women 's trap and women 's skeet ) , raising the number of individual Olympic shooting events to an all-time high of seventeen .
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre at Sydney Harbour in Sydney , New South Wales , Australia . It is one of the 20th century 's most famous and distinctive buildings . Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon , but completed by an Australian architectural team headed up by Peter Hall , the building was formally opened on 20 October 1973 after a gestation beginning with Utzon 's 1957 selection as winner of an international design competition . The Government of New South Wales , led by the premier , Joseph Cahill , authorised work to begin in 1958 with Utzon directing construction . The government 's decision to build Utzon 's design is often overshadowed by circumstances that followed , including cost and scheduling overruns as well as the architect 's ultimate resignation . The building and its surrounds occupy the whole of Bennelong Point on Sydney Harbour , between Sydney Cove and Farm Cove , adjacent to the Sydney central business district and the Royal Botanic Gardens , and close by the Sydney Harbour Bridge . [ citation needed ] The building comprises multiple performance venues , which together host well over 1,500 performances annually , attended by more than 1.2 million people . Performances are presented by numerous performing artists , including three resident companies : Opera Australia , the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra . As one of the most popular visitor attractions in Australia , the site is visited by more than eight million people annually , and approximately 350,000 visitors take a guided tour of the building each year . The building is managed by the Sydney Opera House Trust , an agency of the New South Wales State Government .
Triathlon made its official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , Australia . This sporting event was held at the Sydney Opera House . Forty-eight triathletes contested the female event on September 16 , while fifty-two contested the male event on September 17 , making up a total of 100 competitors . Each competitor starts the event with a 1500-metre swim course , followed by a 40 kilometre road bicycle race and finish with a 10 kilometre road run . Each consecutive event in triathlon runs in sequence , without any respite , so that the athlete who crossed the line in first place at the end of the run would be the winner .
The Western Sydney Parklands is an urban park system and a nature reserve located in Sydney , New South Wales , Australia . The NSW government has spent around $ 400 million for the park . The park is governed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and is listed under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 . The Parklands begin in the north in the City of Blacktown , cross the City of Fairfield , and end in the City of Liverpool . The parklands , being approximately 5,280-hectare ( 13,000-acre ) in size and 27 kilometres ( 17 mi ) in length , are one of the largest in the world , and they would feature picnic areas , sports grounds and walking tracks . The parklands attract 430,000 to 790,000 visitors annually . In addition , the parkland provided lands for the 2000 Olympic Games .