Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Single sculls details Ekaterina Karsten ( BLR ) Rumyana Neykova ( BUL ) Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski ( GER )
Double sculls details Jana Thieme and Kathrin Boron ( GER ) Pieta van Dishoeck and Eeke van Nes ( NED ) Birutė Šakickienė and Kristina Poplavskaja ( LTU )
Quadruple sculls details Germany ( GER ) Meike Evers Kerstin Kowalski Manja Kowalski Manuela Lutze Great Britain ( GBR ) Guin Batten Miriam Batten Katherine Grainger Gillian Lindsay Russia ( RUS ) Oksana Dorodnova Irina Fedotova Yuliya Levina Larisa Merk
Coxless pair details Georgeta Damian and Doina Ignat ( ROU ) Kate Slatter and Rachael Taylor ( AUS ) Karen Kraft and Melissa Ryan ( USA )
Coxed eight details Romania ( ROM ) Veronica Cochelea Georgeta Damian Maria Magdalena Dumitrache Liliana Gafencu Elena Georgescu Doina Ignat Elisabeta Lipă Ioana Olteanu Viorica Susanu Netherlands ( NED ) Tessa Appeldoorn Carin ter Beek Pieta van Dishoeck Elien Meijer Eeke van Nes Nelleke Penninx Martijntje Quik Anneke Venema Marieke Westerhof Canada ( CAN ) Buffy Alexander Laryssa Biesenthal Heather Davis Alison Korn Theresa Luke Heather McDermid Emma Robinson Lesley Thompson Dorota Urbaniak
Lightweight double sculls details Constanța Burcică and Angela Alupei ( ROU ) Valerie Viehoff and Claudia Blasberg ( GER ) Christine Collins and Sarah Garner ( USA )
Medal summary -- Women 's events
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.