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Sydney 2000

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Opening date	15.09.2000
Closing date	01.10.2000
Candidate cities	Beijing, Berlin, Istanbul, Manchester
Participating countries	199
Athletes	10651- (4069 women, 6582 men)
Chairman of Olympic Management Committee	Michael Knight
Official opening of the Games by	Sir William Deane, Governor General of Australia
Lighting the Olympic Flame by	Cathy Freeman (athletics)
Olympic Oath by	Rechelle Hawkes (hockey)
Official Oath by	Peter Kerr (water polo)
Obverse	Reverse

Discus throw

Final	25.09.2000	19:00
Athlete	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Alekna Virgilijus	58.55	67.54	68.73	66.64	69.3	64.78
Riedel Lars	65.18	x	68.5	68.08	67.33	63.87
Kruger Frantz	67.89	x	68.19	68.06	x	62.72
Kaptyukh Vasiliy	58.93	64.5	67.59	64.42	65.07	66.7
Setliff Adam	60.5	66.02	64.72	65.1	63.1	61.99
Tunks Jason	59.59	64.58	65.35	x	65.8	64.38
Dubrovshchik Vladimir	63.95	65.13	x	64.32	x	60.15
Schult J�rgen	x	60.83	63.34	64.41	62.63	61.96
Tammert Aleksander	55.84	59.26	63.25
M?llenbeck Michael	61.19	60.13	63.14
Shevchenko Dmitriy	x	x	62.65
Washington Anthony	x	x	59.87

Group A	24.09.2000	10:00
Athlete	1st	2nd	3rd
Riedel Lars	68.15
Kruger Frantz	67.54
Kaptyukh Vasiliy	65.9
Shevchenko Dmitriy	62.82	63.09	65.29
Dubrovshchik Vladimir	64.03
Schult J�rgen	63.76	60.97	x
Tammert Aleksander	63.52	61.84	60.9
Li Shaojie	62.29	x	59.71
Hallgrmsson Magnœs	60.95	58.79	60.03
Casanas Yennifer Frank	60.84	x	60.79
Malina Libor	59.38	x	60.83
Ubartas Romas	60.43	60.5	x
Weir Robert	57.57	x	60.01
Stanski Olgierd	59.31	58.06	x
Winchester Ian	58.61	58.64	x
Cherevko Leonid	57.63	x	58.32
Mustapic Dragan	53.76	58.1	x
Conjungo Mickael	x	57.85	55.6
Pugliese Marcelo	x	53.49	56.3
Menton John	x	54.21	50.95
Poltoratskiy Roman	45.4	x	47.83
Mamedov Khary	x	x	x
Kövago Zoltan	x	x	x

Group B	24.09.2000	12:10
Athlete	1st	2nd	3rd
Alekna Virgilijus	67.1
Tunks Jason	64.4
Setliff Adam	x	63.25	-
Washington Anthony	62.82	x	x
M”llenbeck Michael	62.3	62.72	61.92
Fortuna Diego	60.12	x	62.24
Borichevskiy Aleksandr	59.78	61.98	61.89
Fazekas Robert	x	x	61.76
Godina John	57.67	61.6	x
Potgieter Frits	61.56	60.27	60.83
Martnez David	61.5	x	59.97
Elizalde Alexis	57.75	61.13	59.96
Van Daele Jo	60.89	60.93	x
Mate Gabor	59.43	60.69	60.86
Sidorov Vitaliy	58.32	59.43	60.65
Kidykas Vaclovas	57.86	58.96	58.09
Chuprynin Kyrylo	x	58.38	57.32
Sweeney Nick	56.73	56.24	57.37
Smith Glen	56.22	55.31	54.36
Aldosari Rashid S	x	54.47	53.42
Gervais Jason	x	x	x
Grasu Costel	x	-	-

Sydney 2000 maskot
Olly, Syd & Millie