Belarus at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Belarus at the 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	BLR
NOC	Belarus Olympic Committee
Website	www.noc.by (Russian) (English)
in Sydney
Competitors	139 (72 men and 67 women) in 20 sports
Flag bearer	Sergey Lishtvan
Medals Ranked 23rd	Gold Silver Bronze Total 3 3 11 17
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1900–1912) Poland (1924–1936) Soviet Union (1952–1988) Unified Team (1992)

Belarus competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 139 competitors, 72 men and 67 women, took part in 109 events in 20 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Gold

• Yanina Karolchik — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
• Ellina Zvereva — Athletics, Women's Discus
• Ekaterina Karsten — Rowing, Women's Single Sculls

Silver

• Yulia Raskina — Rhythmic Gymnastics, Women's Individual Competition
• Tatyana Ananko, Tatyana Belan, Anna Glazkova, Irina Ilyenkova, Maria Lazuk, and Olga Puzhevich — Rhythmic gymnastics, Women's Team Competition
• Igor Basinsky — Shooting, Men's 50m Pistol

Bronze

• Irina Yatchenko — Athletics, Women's Discus
• Igor Astapkovich — Athletics, Men's Discus
• Natalya Sazanovich — Athletics, Women's Heptathlon
• Anatoly Laryukov — Judo, Men's Half-Middleweight
• Pavel Dovgal — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition
• Igor Basinsky — Shooting, Men's 10m Air Pistol
• Lolita Evglevskaya — Shooting, Women's 25m Pistol
• Sergei Martynov — Shooting, Men's 50m Rifle (prone)
• Gennady Oleshchuk — Weightlifting, Men's 62 kg
• Sergey Lavrenov — Weightlifting, Men's 69 kg
• Dmitry Debelka — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 97–130 kg

Archery

In its second Olympic archery competition, Belarus was represented by two women and one man. They were not as successful as they had been four years earlier, but two of the archers still managed to win their first matches.

Women's Individual
	Anna Karaseva			Olga Moroz
1/32 eliminations	Defeated	Almudena Gallardo Spain	163-162	Lost to	Joanna Nowicka Poland	152-139
1/16 eliminations	Lost to	Mi-Jin Yun Korea	162-152	-	-	-

Men's Individual Competition:

• Nico Hendrickx — round of 32 → 27th place (1-1)

Athletics

Men's 800 metres

• Pavel Pelepyagin
  • Round 1 — 01:46.67
  • Semifinal — 01:50.37 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400m Hurdles

• Leonid Vershinin
  • Round 1 — 51.84 (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put

• Andrei Mikhnevich
  • Qualifying — 19.97
  • Final — 19.48 (→ 9th place)

Men's Discus

• Vasiliy Kaptyukh
  • Qualifying — 65.90
  • Final — 67.59 (→ 4th place)
• Vladimir Dubrovshchik
  • Qualifying — 64.03
  • Final — 65.13 (→ 7th place)
• Leonid Cherevko
  • Qualifying — 58.32 (→ did not advance)

Men's Javelin Throw

• Vladimir Sasimovich
  • Qualifying — 78.04 (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Igor Astapkovich
  • Qualifying — 79.81
  • Final — 79.17 (→ Bronze Medal)
• Ivan Tikhon
  • Qualifying — 76.90
  • Final — 79.17 (→ 4th place)

Men's High Jump

• Aleksei Lelin
  • Qualifying — 2.15 (→ did not advance)

Men's 20 km Walk

• Andrey Makarov
  • Final — 1:23:33 (→ 17th place)
• Artur Meleshkevich
  • Final — 1:24:50 (→ 21st place)
• Mikhail Khmelnitskiy
  • Final — 1:28:02 (→ 34th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

• Viktor Ginko
  • Final — DSQ

Women's 800 metres

• Natalya Dukhnova
  • Round 1 — 02:03.20 (→ did not advance)

Women's 4x400 metres

• Elena Bunnik, Anna Kazak, Irina Khlyustova, and Natalya Sologub
  • Round 1 — 03:26.31 (→ did not advance)

Women's Shot Put

• Yanina Karolchyk
  • Qualifying — 19.36
  • Final — 20.56 (→ Gold Medal)

Women's Discus

• Irina Yatchenko
  • Qualifying — 62.72
  • Final — 65.20 (→ Bronze Medal)
• Ellina Zvereva
  • Qualifying — 64.81
  • Final — 68.40 (→ Gold Medal)

Women's Hammer Throw

• Svetlana Sudak
  • Qualifying — 63.83
  • Final — 64.21 (→ 10th place)
• Lyudmila Gubkina
  • Qualifying — 63.29
  • Final — 67.08 (→ 6th place)
• Olga Tsander
  • Qualifying — no mark (→ did not advance)

Women's Triple Jump

• Natallia Safronava
  • Qualifying — 13.91 (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

• Tatyana Shevchik
  • Qualifying — 1.85 (→ did not advance)

Women's 20 km Walk

• Nataliya Misyulya
  • Final — 1:33:08 (→ 9th place)
• Valentina Tsybulskaya
  • Final — 1:36:44 (→ 28th place)
• Larisa Ramazanova
  • Final — 1:37:39 (→ 32nd place)

Women's Heptathlon

• Natalya Sazanovich
  • 100m Hurdles — 13.45
  • High Jump — 1.84
  • Shot Put — 14.79
  • 200m — 24.12
  • Long Jump — 6.50
  • Javelin Throw — 43.97
  • 800m — 02:16.41
  • Points — 6527 (→ Bronze Medal)

Boxing

Men's Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)

• Sergey Bykovsky
  • Round 1 — Defeated Romeo Brin of Philippines
  • Round 2 — Defeated Nurhan Suleymanoglu of Turkey
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Mahamadkadyz Abdullaev of Uzbekistan (→ did not advance)

Canoeing

Flatwater

Men's Competition

Men's Canoe Singles 500m

• Aleksandr Maseikov
  • Qualifying Heat — 01:54.468
  • Semifinal — 01:55.035 (→ did not advance)

Women's Competition

Women's Kayak Doubles 500m

• Elena Bet and Svetlana Vakula
  • Qualifying Heat — 01:55.757
  • Semifinal — 01:49.758 (→ did not advance)

Women's Kayak Fours 500m

• Alesya Bakunova, Elena Bet, Natalya Bondarenko, and Svetlana Vakula
  • Qualifying Heat — 01:34.734
  • Semifinal — Bye
  • Final — 01:37.748 (→ 6th place)

Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

• Vyacheslav Khamulkin
  • Preliminary — 357.03 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 3m Springboard

• Svetlana Alekseeva
  • Preliminary — 260.91
  • Semi-final — 216.48 — 477.39 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Fencing

Four fencers, all men, represented Belarus in 2000.

Men's épée

• Vitaly Zakharov
• Vladimir Pchenikin
• Andrey Murashko

Men's team épée

• Vitaly Zakharov, Andrey Murashko, Vladimir Pchenikin

Men's sabre

• Dmitry Lapkes

Gymnastics

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Women's Individual Competition

• Janna Choubenok — 5086 pts (→ 6th place)

Men's Individual Competition

• Pavel Dovgal — 5338 pts (→ Bronze Medal)

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rhythmic Gymnastics Individual

• Yulia Raskina — 39.548 pts (→ Silver Medal)
• Valerina Vatkina — 38.957 pts (→ 8th place)

Rhythmic Gymnastics Team:

• Tatyana Ananko, Tatyana Belan, Anna Glazkova, Irina Ilyenkova, Maria Lazuk, and Olga Puzhevich — 39.500pts (→ Silver Medal)

Rowing

Women's Single Sculls

• Yekaterina Khodatovich-Karsten

Women's coxed eight

• Irina Bazilevskaya
• Marina Kuzhmar
• Olga Berezneva
• Marina Znak
• Yuliya Bichik
• Inessa Zakharevskaya
• Nataliya Gelakh
• Olga Tratsevskaya
• Valentina Khokhlova

Sailing

Men's Double Handed Dinghy (470)

• Igor Ivashintsov and Mikhail Protasevich
  • Race 1 — 15
  • Race 2 — (29)
  • Race 3 — 20
  • Race 4 — 20
  • Race 5 — 23
  • Race 6 — 14
  • Race 7 — 18
  • Race 8 — (30) DSQ
  • Race 9 — 24
  • Race 10 — 5
  • Race 11 — 14
  • Final — 153 (→ 21st place)

Men's Laser

• Aleksandr Mumyga
  • Race 1 — 28
  • Race 2 — 27
  • Race 3 — 20
  • Race 4 — 29
  • Race 5 — 20
  • Race 6 — 29
  • Race 7 — (40)
  • Race 8 — 34
  • Race 9 — 28
  • Race 10 — 32
  • Race 11 — 30
  • Final — 243 (→ 32nd place)

Women's Single Handed Dinghy (Europe)

• Tatiana Drozdovskaya
  • Race 1 — 25
  • Race 2 — 16
  • Race 3 — 17
  • Race 4 — 17
  • Race 5 — 26
  • Race 6 — (27)
  • Race 7 — (28) OCS
  • Race 8 — 18
  • Race 9 — 21
  • Race 10 — 17
  • Race 11 — 19
  • Final — 176 (→ 24th place)

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

• Dmitry Kalinovsky
  • Heat — 23.21 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Oleg Rukhlevich
  • Heat — 50.96 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

• Igor Koleda
  • Heat — 1:49.01
  • Semi-final — 1:49.52 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400m Freestyle

• Dmitry Koptur
  • Heat — 03:55.26 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1500m Freestyle

• Dmitry Koptur
  • Heat — 15:29.62 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

• Aleksandr Gukov
  • Heat — 01:04.96 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

• Aleksandr Gukov
  • Heat — 02:16.93 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle

• Igor Koleda, Pavel Lagun, Dmitry Kalinovsky, Oleg Rukhlevich
  • Heat — 03:20.85 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle

• Igor Koleda, Pavel Lagun, Dmitry Koptur, Valery Khuroshvili
  • Heat — 07:24.83 (→ did not advance)

Women's 50m Freestyle

• Alena Popchanka
  • Heat — 26.1 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100m Freestyle

• Alena Popchanka
  • Heat — 56.33
  • Semi-final — 56.4 (→ did not advance)

Women's 200m Freestyle

• Natalya Baranovskaya
  • Heat — 02:00.58
  • Semi-final — 01:59.90
  • Final — 01:59.28 (→ 6th place)

Women's 400m Freestyle

• Natalya Baranovskaya
  • Heat — 04:12.67 (→ did not advance)

Synchronized swimming

Women's Duet

• Kristina Nadezhdina and Natalia Sakharuk
  • Technical Routine — 30.287 (→ did not compete in the free routine)

Table tennis

Tennis

Trampolining

Women's Trampoline

• Natalia Karpenkova — 35.80 pts (→ 6th place)

Men's Trampoline

• Dimitri Polyarush — 38.10 pts (→ 5th place)

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch			Clean & Jerk			Total	Rank
		1	2	3	1	2	3
Vitaly Derbenyov	– 56 kg	115.0	120.0	125.0	145.0	150.0	155.0	275.0	7
Gennady Oleshchuk	– 62 kg	137.5	142.5	145.0	172.5	175.0	177.5	317.5	03 !
Sergey Lavrenov	– 69 kg	152.5	157.5	163.0	182.5	187.5	187.5	340.0	03 !
Pavel Bazuk	– 94 kg	162.5	167.5	170.0	197.5	202.5	202.5	365.0	16

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch			Clean & Jerk			Total	Rank
		1	2	3	1	2	3
Hanna Batsiushka	– 58 kg	85.0	90.0	90.0	102.5	107.5	112.5	197.5	8

Wrestling

Notes

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