Belarus at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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]

Belarus at the 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	BLR
NOC	Belarus Olympic Committee
Website	www.noc.by (in Russian and English)
in Sydney
Competitors	139 (72 men and 67 women) in 20 sports
Flag bearer	Sergey Lishtvan
Medals Ranked 23rd	Gold 3 Silver 3 Bronze 11 Total 17
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1900–1912)  Poland (1924–1936)  Soviet Union (1952–1988)  Unified Team (1992)

Medalists

Main article: 2000 Summer Olympics medal table

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Yanina Karolchik	Athletics	Women's shot put
Gold	Ellina Zvereva	Athletics	Women's discus
Gold	Ekaterina Karsten	Rowing	Women's single sculls
Silver	Yulia Raskina	Gymnastics	Women's individual all-around
Silver	Tatyana Ananko Tatyana Belan Anna Glazkova Irina Ilyenkova Maria Lazuk Olga Puzhevich	Gymnastics	Women's group all around
Silver	Igor Basinsky	Shooting	Men's 50 metre pistol
Bronze	Irina Yatchenko	Athletics	Women's discus throw
Bronze	Igor Astapkovich	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Bronze	Natalya Sazanovich	Athletics	Women's heptathlon
Bronze	Anatoly Laryukov	Judo	Men's half-middleweight
Bronze	Pavel Dovgal	Modern pentathlon	Men's competition
Bronze	Igor Basinsky	Shooting	Men's 10 metre air pistol
Bronze	Lalita Yauhleuskaya	Shooting	Women's 25 metre pistol
Bronze	Sergei Martynov	Shooting	Men's 50 metre rifle prone
Bronze	Gennady Oleshchuk	Weightlifting	Men's 62 kg
Bronze	Sergey Lavrenov	Weightlifting	Men's 69 kg
Bronze	Dmitry Debelka	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Anna Karaseva	Women's individual	629	29	Gallardo (ESP) W 163-162	Yun (KOR) L 152-162	Did not advance
Olga Moroz		620	41	Nowicka (POL) L 139-152	Did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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

Main article: Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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

Main article: Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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

Main article: Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's 3m Springboard

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

Women's 3m Springboard

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

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Women's Individual Competition

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

Men's Individual Competition

• Pavel Dovgal — 5338 pts (→ Bronze Medal)

Rhythmic gymnastics

Individual

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Rope	Hoop	Ball	Ribbon	Total	Rank	Rope	Hoop	Ball	Ribbon	Total	Rank
Yulia Raskina	Individual	9.900	9.908	9.908	9.908	39.624	2 Q	9.908	9.791	9.983	9.916	39.548
Valeria Vatkina		9.750	9.733	9.775	9.800	39.058	6 Q	9.791	9.750	9.666	9.750	38.957	8

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Clubs	Ribbons & Hoops	Total	Rank	Clubs	Ribbons & Hoops	Total	Rank
Tatyana Ananko Tatyana Belan Anna Glazkova Irina Ilyenkova Maria Lazuk Olga Puzhevich	Group	19.700	19.666	39.366	2 Q	19.800	19.700	39.500

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ekaterina Karsten	Single sculls	7:47.73	1 Q	BYE		7:40.36	2 FA	7:28.14
Irina Bazilevskaya Marina Kuzhmar Olga Berezneva Marina Znak Yuliya Bichik Inessa Zakharevskaya Nataliya Gelakh Olga Tratsevskaya Valentina Khokhlova	Eights	6:19.02	3 R	6:19.42	4 FA	N/A		6:13.57	4

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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

Main article: Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Igor Basinski	10 m air pistol	583	4 Q	682.7
	50 m pistol	569	2 Q	663.3
Anatoli Klimenko	10 m air rifle	593	2 Q	693.4	4
	50 m rifle three positions	1157	25	Did not advance
Oleg Khvatsovas	25 m rapid fire pistol	586	5 Q	682.4	6
Kanstantsin Lukashyk	10 m air pistol	577	15	Did not advance
	50 m pistol	560	9	Did not advance
Sergei Martynov	50 m rifle prone	598	2 Q	700.3
	50 m rifle three positions	1164	9	Did not advance
Georgi Nekhayev	10 m air rifle	588	18	Did not advance
	50 m rifle prone	593	19	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Viktoria Chaika	10 m air pistol	381	11	Did not advance
Oksana Kovtonovich	10 m air rifle	389	32	Did not advance
Olga Pogrebniak	50 m rifle three positions	578	11	Did not advance
	10 m air rifle	393	9	Did not advance
Irina Shilova	50 m rifle three positions	574	20	Did not advance
Yulia Sinyak	25 m pistol	584	4 Q	685.9	4
Lalita Yauhleuskaya	25 m pistol	583	5 Q	686.0
	10 m air pistol	381	11	Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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

Main article: Synchronized swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Women's Duet

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

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Trampolining

Women's Trampoline

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

Men's Trampoline

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

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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
Sergey Lavrenov	– 69 kg	152.5	157.5	163.0	182.5	187.5	187.5	340.0
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

Main article: Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Notes

• Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
• International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• International Olympic Committee Web Site

References

1. "Belarus at the 2000 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2012.