The 2000 Sydney Games featured athletes from 199 nations competing in 300 medal events. The United States finished atop the medal count with 93 medals: 37 gold, 24 silver and 32 bronze.
Gold medal winners at the Sydney Olympic Games
U.S. gold-medal winning teams
- softball
- baseball
- women’s basketball
- men’s basketball
Shooting
- Nancy Johnson won a gold medal in the 10-meter air rifle
Men’s swimming
- Lenny Krayzelburg (100-meter backstroke and 200-meter backstroke)
- Tom Malchow (200-meter butterfly)
- Tom Dolan (400-meter individual medley)
- Anthony Ervin and Gary Hall Jr. (50-meter freestyle)
- the 4×100-meter medley relay team of Ian Crocker, Hall Jr., Tommy Hannan, Lenny Krayzelburg, Jason Lezak, Ed Moses and Neil Walker
Women’s swimming
- Brooke Bennett (400-meter freestyle and 800-meter freestyle)
- Megan Quann (100-meter breaststroke)
- Misty Hyman (200-meter butterfly)
- the 4×100-meter freestyle relay team of Erin Phenix, Courtney Shealy, Ashley Tappin, Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres and Amy Van Dyken
- the 4×200-meter freestyle relay team of Samantha Arsenault, Lindsay Benko, Kim Black, Diana Munz, Julia Stowers and Thompson
- the 4×100-meter medley relay team of Barbara Bedford, Quann, Shealy, Staciana Stitts, Tappin, Thompson, Torres and Van Dyken
Men’s track and field
- Maurice Greene (100-meter dash)
- Michael Johnson (400-meter run)
- Angelo Taylor (400-meter hurdles)
- Nick Hysong (pole vault)
- the 4×100-meter relay team of Kenneth Brokenburr, Jon Drummond, Greene, Brian Lewis, Tim Montgomery and Bernard Williams
Women’s track and field
- Stacy Dragila (pole vault)
- the 4×400-meter relay team of Andrea Anderson, LaTasha Colander, Monique Hennagan and Jearl Miles Clark
Weightlifting
- Tara Nott won gold in the women’s 48-kilogram
Cycling
- Marty Nothstein won gold in the men’s sprint
Equestrian
- David O’Connor won gold in individual eventing
Diving
- Laura Wilkinson won gold in the women’s platform
Beach volleyball
- Dain Blanton
- Eric Fonoimoana
Tennis
- Venus Williams won the women’s singles gold medal
- Venus Williams teamed with her sister Serena to win gold in women’s doubles
Wrestling
- Rulon Gardner (Greco-Roman 130 kilograms)
- Brandon Slay (freestyle 76 kilograms)
Taekwondo
- Steven Lopez won gold at 68 kilograms
Sailing
- Magnus Liljedahl and Mark Reynolds won gold in the star class
