2000 Sydney Summer Games
10,651 Athletes, 199 Countries, 300 Events
The Summer Olympics went Down Under for the first time since
Melbourne in 1956 and ended up being one of the most successful
Games on record. One thing is for sure - it was the biggest. 10,649
athletes competed in Sydney and a record 80 nations won a medal.
Six new events were added for the Sydney Games including
synchronized diving, triathlon, and women's weightlifting. In all,
a record number of athletes took part in 300 events.
The 2000 Games were also one of the biggest in history as far as
the Ivy League is concerned. The Ancient Eight sent 52
representatives to Australia for the Olympics, the second-highest
mark ever. The League also brought home 12 medals as one gold, six
silver, and five bronze medals were proudly hung around the necks
of Ivy Leaguers.
The one gold belonged to Penn wrestler Brandon
Slay '98. Slay was defeated in the gold medal bout by
Alexander Leipold but three weeks after the
Olympics, Slay was presented with the gold on the Today Show after
Leipold had tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone. To
make the gold medal round, Slay defeated defending Olympic champion
Buvaisar Saytyev in the second match of the
preliminary pool.
In the inaugural women's modern pentathlon Yale's Emily
DeRiel ('90) took silver after claiming first place in
both the shooting and riding portions of the event. In fact,
DeRiel's worst finish was a ninth in fencing but a dominating
cross-country run by Oxford teammate Stephanie
Cook gave Cook the gold by a narrow eight-point margin.
DeRiel has a master's in English literature from Oxford.
The Ivy League picked up its second ever medal in men's
basketball when Dartmouth's Crawford Palmer earned
a secondplace finish with the French team. Palmer scored ten points
in the gold medal game. It was the first time an Ivy Leaguer had
earned an Olympic medal in basketball since Princeton's
Bill Bradley '65 captained the 1964 Tokyo squad to
gold.
| Name |
School |
Sport |
| Igor Boraska |
Brown University |
Men's Rowing |
| Angela "Dawn" Chuck |
Brown University |
Women's Swimming |
| Porter Collins |
Brown University |
Men's Rowing |
| Tina Dancevic |
Brown University |
Women's Swimming |
| Jamie Koven |
Brown University |
Men's Rowing |
| Siri Lindley |
Brown University |
Women's Triathlon |
| Xeno Mueller |
Brown University |
Men's Rowing |
| Alex Ottiano |
Brown University |
Men's Judo |
| Jim Pedro |
Brown University |
Men's Judo |
| Raj Shah |
Brown University |
Men's Rowing |
| Nikda Shojic |
Brown University |
Women's Rowing |
| Dave Simon |
Brown University |
Men's Rowing |
| Susan Smith |
Brown University |
Women's Athletics |
| Joanna Zieger |
Brown University |
Women's Triathlon |
| Tom Auth |
Columbia University |
Men's Rowing |
| Anne Marsh |
Columbia University |
Women's Fencing |
| Matt Napoleon |
Columbia University |
Men's Soccer |
| Erinn Smart |
Columbia University |
Women's Fencing |
| Cristina Teuscher |
Columbia University |
Women's Swimming |
| Ted Murphy |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Rowing |
| Adam Nelson |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Athletics |
| Crawford Palmer |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Basketball |
| Dominic Seiterle |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Rowing |
| Dora Gyorffy |
Harvard University |
Women's Athletics |
| Elizabeth McCagg |
Harvard University |
Women's Rowing |
| Wolfgang Moeser |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| Henry Nuzum |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| Nick Peterson |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| Greg Ruckman |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| Nick Sweeney |
Harvard University |
Men's Athletics |
| Cliff Bayer |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Fencing |
| Tamir Bloom |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Fencing |
| Sarah Garner |
University of Pennsylvania |
Women's Rowing |
| Garrett Miller |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Rowing |
| Brandon Slay |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Wrestling |
| Chris Ahrens |
Princeton University |
Men's Rowing |
| Lianne Bennion |
Princeton University |
Men's Rowing |
| Kevin Cotter |
Princeton University |
Men's Rowing |
| Morgan Crooks |
Princeton University |
Men's Rowing |
| Tom Herschmiller |
Princeton University |
Men's Rowing |
| Sean Kamman |
Princeton University |
Men's Rowing |
| Paul Teti |
Princeton University |
Men's Rowing |
| Juan Pablo Valdivieso |
Princeton University |
Men's Swimming |
| Tom Welsh |
Princeton University |
Men's Rowing |
| Peter Coghlan |
Yale University |
Men's Athletics |
| Emily DeRiel |
Yale University |
Women's Modern Pentathlon |
| Stephen Fahy |
Yale University |
Men's Swimming |
| George Gleason |
Yale University |
Men's Swimming |
| J.J. Isler |
Yale University |
Men's Sailing |
| Jonathan McKee |
Yale University |
Men's Sailing |
| Celita Schutz |
Yale University |
Women's Judo |
| Matt Taylor |
Yale University |
Men's Kayaking |