| September 23 |
| Badminton |
| Men's Singles |
 Taufik Hidayat, Indonesia |
 Hendrawan, Indonesia |
 Peter Gade Christensen, Denmark |
| Hidayat, 19, is nation's teen idol |
| Women's Doubles |
| Gong Zhichao, China |
| Camilla Martin, Denmark |
| Dai Yun, China |
| Defending gold medalists Ge Fei and Gu Jun teamed up at age nine |
| Cycling |
| Women's Mountain Bike (cross country) |
| Alison Sydor, Canada |
| Marga Fullana, Spain |
| Alison Dunlap, U.S. |
| Ex-road racer Dunlap has led in World Cup points much of year |
| Fencing |
| Women's Team Foil |
| Italy |
| Germany |
| Hungary |
| Italy won five world and two Olympic titles in '90s |
| Gymnastics |
| Men's Trampoline |
| Alexander Moskalenko, Russia |
| Dmitri Poliarush, Belarus |
| David Martin, France |
| Moskalenko and best friend Poliarush unretired when event was added for Sydney Games |
| Rowing |
| Men's Eight |
| U.S. |
| Great Britain |
| Russia |
| U.S. has won last three world titles |
| Men's Lightweight Double Sculls |
| Luini & Pettinari, Italy |
| Touron & Chapelle, France |
| Gier & Gier, Switzerland |
| World champ Leonardo Pettinari first paired with Elia Luini in June |
| Men's Lightweight Four without Coxwain |
| France |
| Austria |
| U.S. |
| U.S. is so deep that choosing oarsmen for team was difficult |
| Men's Quadruple Sculls |
| Italy |
| Austria |
| Ukraine |
| Field is so deep that world champ Germans are shut out |
| Women's Eight |
| Romania |
| U.S. |
| Canada |
| Romania has won every world title since '95 loss to U.S |
| Women's Lightweight Double Sculls |
| Alupei & Macoviciuc, Romania |
| Garner & Smith Collins, U.S. |
| Blasberg & Viehoff, Germany |
| Duel between '98 (U.S.) and '99 (Romania) world champs |
| Women's Quadruple Sculls Finals |
| Germany |
| Russia |
| Great Britain |
| Germans overpowering this year |
| Sailing |
| Open Multihull (Tornado) |
| Gäbler & Schwall, Germany |
| Bundock & Forbes, Australia |
| Hagara & Steinacher, Austria |
| The Games' fastest craft, the catamarans used in this event can exceed 35 mph |
| Women's Sailboard (Mistral) |
| Barbara Kendall, New Zealand |
| Lee Lai-shan, Hong Kong |
| Jessica Crisp, Australia |
| Lee, eighth of 10 kids, won Hong Kong's first-ever gold in '96 |
| Swimming |
| Men's 1,500-meter Freestyle |
| Grant Hackett, Australia |
| Kieren Perkins, Australia |
| Erik Vendt, U.S. |
| Hackett stops beloved countryman Perkins from threepeating |
| Men's 4x100-meter Medley Relay |
| U.S. |
| Australia |
| Russia |
| Americans won't be caught after leading back- and breaststroke |
| Women's 4x100-meter Medley Relay |
| U.S. |
| Australia |
| Japan |
| In nine Games, U.S. has seven gold and two silver medals |
| Women's 50-meter Freestyle |
| Therese Alshammar, Sweden |
| Inge de Bruijn, the Netherlands |
| Dara Torres, U.S. |
| De Bruijn holds the world mark, but unheralded Alshammar rules |
| Table Tennis |
| Men's Doubles |
| Kong & Liu, China |
| Persson & Waldner, Sweden |
| Wang & Yan, China |
| Jörgen Persson and Ja-Ove Waldner have world singles titles |
| Track and Field |
| Women's 100 Meters |
| Marion Jones, U.S. |
| Inger Miller, U.S. |
| Ekaterini Thanou, Greece |
| Jones has run history's seven fastest non-Flo-Jo times |
| Men's 100 Meters |
| Maurice Greene, U.S. |
| Bruny Surin, Canada |
| Francis Obikwelu, Nigeria |
| Victory here will mean much green for Greene |
| Men's Javelin |
| Aki Parviainen, Finland |
| Jan Zelezny, Czech Republic |
| Kostas Gatsioudis, Greece |
| Zelezny, who had pitching tryout with Braves, can throw a baseball from warning track to mound |
| Women's Marathon |
| Tegla Loroupe, Kenya |
| Lidia Simon, Romania |
| Naoko Takahashi, Japan |
| Born in maize field, Loroupe now adorns Kenyan postage stamps |
| Waterpolo |
| Women's |
| The Netherlands |
| Australia |
| U.S. |
| Holland has won medals at all 17 major women's competitions in the sport's history |
| Weightlifting |
| Men's 85kg - Group A |
| Pyrros Dimas, Greece |
| Marc Huster, Germany |
| Shahin Nasirinia, Iran |
| Dimas won gold in 1992 and '96 after leaving his native Albania |
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