• the 2000 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the heptathlon was Denise Lewis?
• friends of the family raised $3,500 for Laurie Phenix to travel to the 2000 Summer Olympics and see her daughter Erin Phenix win a gold medal?
• at age 17 years and 331 days, Polish hammer thrower Kamila Skolimowska (pictured) was the youngest Olympic champion in the 2000 Summer Olympics?

Facts on topics related to 2000 Summer Olympics

1988 Summer Olympics

• Brazilian judoka and 1988 Olympic Champion Aurélio Miguel was later elected to the city council of São Paulo?

Olympics

• Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Raatbek Sanatbayev was running for President of the National Olympic Committee of Kyrgyzstan, when he was assassinated, as the previous head of the Committee had been?
• Michael Bates was an Olympic bronze medalist sprinter and a Pro Bowl American football player?
• Michelle Ford was the first woman to win individual swimming medals at the Olympics in two distinct specialized strokes?

1996 Summer Olympics

• Stanford University biochemist Annette Salmeen was both an Olympic gold medalist and a Rhodes Scholar?
• Michael Matz, who trained the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, saved the lives of four children on the ill-fated United Airlines Flight 232 in 1989, and also carried the U.S. flag at the 1996 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremonies?
• although Hungarian hammer thrower Balázs Kiss won the 1996 Olympic gold medal, his best result at the World Championships was two fourth places?
• the metal finishing on more than 10,000 Olympic torches used in the torch relay for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia was done by the Erie Plating Company?

Olympic Games

• amateur wrestling Olympic gold medalist Robin Reed could pin every member of the 1924 United States Olympic wrestling team, despite being in the second lowest weight class?
• Australian sprinter Stanley Rowley is the only Olympic participant to win medals for two countries at the same Olympic Games?
• East German Olympic bronze medalist Wilfried Hartung was once married to two-time Olympic silver medalist Gabriele Wetzko?
• Hungarian fencer Pal Szekeres is the only person ever to have won medals at both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games?
• Kentucky State Representative Sam B. Thomas coached fellow army soldiers in Olympic basketball trials in Japan after World War II?
• Norwegian actress Beate Eriksen is the granddaughter of Olympic gymnast Marius Eriksen, and daughter of World War II flying ace Marius Eriksen, Jr.?
• Olympic marathon runner Lisa Weightman won the Award for Business Excellence from Australian broadsheet The Age?
• Olympic Rower Steven Coppola was the first athlete from Western New York's West Side Rowing Club to medal at the Olympic Games?
• speed skater Tomomi Okazaki, currently competing in her fifth Olympic Games, is the oldest member of the Japanese team at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
• US Olympic discus throw gold medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton said that the downside of the Beijing Games was that they conflicted with the opening of hunting season in California?