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2000 in the sport of athletics

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Field	Value
Title	2000 in athletics
Major world competitions	Olympic Games
IAAF Athletes of the Year	Jan Železný
Marion Jones
Previous	1999
Next	2001

|No. of world records = |IAAF Athletes of the Year = Jan Železný Marion Jones

This article contains an overview of the sport of athletics, including track and field, cross country and road running, in the year 2000.

The primary athletics competition for the 2000 season was at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Major events

World

Regional

African Championships
Asian Championships
Balkan Games
Commonwealth Youth Games
South American Cross Country Championships
European Indoor Championships
European Cross Country Championships
European Cup
European Race Walking Cup
Ibero-American Championships

National

2000 Lithuanian Athletics Championships

World records

Men

None this year

Women

Event	Athlete	Nation	Performance	Meeting	Place	Date
20,000 metres	Tegla Loroupe		1:05:26.6		GER Borgholzhausen, Germany	3 September
3000 m steeplechase	Cristina Iloc-Casandra		9:43.64		ROM Bucharest, Romania	7 August
3000 m steeplechase	Cristina Iloc-Casandra		9:40.20		FRA Reims, France	30 August
4 × 200 metres relay	LaTasha Jenkins
LaTasha Colander-Richardson
Nanceen Perry
Marion Jones		1:27.46		USA Philadelphia, USA	29 April
Pole vault	Stacy Dragila		4.62 m		USA Atlanta, USA	3 March
Pole vault	Stacy Dragila		4.63 m		USA Sacramento, USA	23 July
Javelin Throw (new)	Trine Hattestad		68.22 m		ITA Rome, ITA	30 June
Javelin Throw (new)	Trine Hattestad		69.48 m		NOR Oslo, NOR	28 July

Awards

Men

2000 TRACK & FIELD AWARDS	ATHLETE
IAAF World Athlete of the Year	Jan Železný
Track & Field Athlete of the Year	Virgilijus Alekna
European Athlete of the Year Award	Jan Železný
Best Male Track Athlete ESPY Award	Michael Johnson

Women

2000 TRACK & FIELD AWARDS	ATHLETE
IAAF World Athlete of the Year	Marion Jones
Track & Field Athlete of the Year	Marion Jones
European Athlete of the Year Award	Trine Hattestad
Best Female Track Athlete ESPY Award	Marion Jones

Men's Best Year Performances

Marathon

Main article: 2000 Marathon Year Ranking

[[Hurdling|400m Hurdles]]

RANK	2000 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Angelo Taylor	47.50
2.	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	47.53
3.	Llewellyn Herbert	47.81
4.	Eric Thomas	47.94
5.	Samuel Matete	48.01

[[Steeplechase (athletics)|3,000m Steeplechase]]

RANK	2000 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Bernard Barmasai	8:02.76
2.	Brahim Boulami	8:02.90
3.	Ali Ezzine	8:03.57
4.	Kipkirui Misoi	8:03.74
5.	Reuben Kosgei	8:03.92

[[Pole vault|Pole Vault]]

RANK	2000 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Jeff Hartwig	6.03 m
2.	Michael Stolle	5.95 m
3.	Lawrence Johnson	5.90 m
Pavel Gerasimov
Maksim Tarasov
Danny Ecker
Nick Hysong

[[Hammer Throw]]

Main article: 2000 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

[[Decathlon]]

Main article: 2000 Decathlon Year Ranking

Women's Best Year Performances

[[100 metres]]

RANK	2000 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Marion Jones	10.78
2.	Chandra Sturrup	10.86
3.	Ekateríni Thánou	10.91
Inger Miller
5.	Zhanna Block	10.93

[[200 metres]]

RANK	2000 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Marion Jones	21.94
2.	Inger Miller	22.09
3.	Pauline Davis-Thompson	22.27
4.	Susanthika Jayasinghe	22.28
5.	Beverly McDonald	22.35

[[Half Marathon]]

RANK	2000 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Paula Radcliffe	1:07:07

Marathon

Main article: 2000 Marathon Year Ranking

[[Hurdling|100m Hurdles]]

RANK	2000 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Gail Devers	12.33
2.	Delloreen Ennis-London	12.52
3.	Glory Alozie	12.54
4.	Michelle Freeman	12.57
Melissa Morrison

[[Hurdling|400m Hurdles]]

RANK	2000 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Irina Privalova	53.02
2.	Sandra Glover	53.33
3.	Deon Hemmings	53.45
4.	Nezha Bidouane	53.53
5.	Daimí Pernía	53.68

[[Steeplechase (athletics)|3,000m Steeplechase]]

RANK	2000 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Cristina Casandra	9:40.20
2.	Yekaterina Volkova	9:52.40
3.	Anzhelika Averkova	9:54.10
4.	Daniela Petrescu	9:54.86
5.	Luminita Gogârlea	9:56.99

[[High jump|High Jump]]

RANK	2000 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Monica Iagăr	2.02 m
2.	Hestrie Cloete	2.01 m
Yelena Yelesina
Venelina Veneva
Kajsa Bergqvist

[[Pole vault|Pole Vault]]

RANK	2000 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Stacy Dragila	4.63 m
2.	Anzhela Balakhonova	4.56 m
3.	Tatiana Grigorieva	4.55 m
4.	Kellie Suttle	4.53 m
5.	Emma George	4.50 m
Svetlana Feofanova
Daniela Bártová
Yelena Belyakova
Nicole Humbert
Vala Flosadóttir

[[Hammer Throw]]

Main article: 2000 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

[[Heptathlon]]

RANK	2000 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Eunice Barber	6842
2.	Denise Lewis	6831
3.	Yelena Prokhorova	6765
4.	Natalya Roshchupkina	6633
5.	Natalya Sazanovich	6527

Deaths

March 7 — Masami Yoshida (41), Japanese javelin thrower (b. 1958)
August 7 — Mona-Lisa Pursiainen (49), Finnish sprinter (b. 1951)

References

ARRS

References

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