Kuwait at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Kuwait at the 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	KUW
NOC	Kuwait Olympic Committee
Website	www.kuwaitolympic.net (in Arabic and English)
in Sydney
Competitors	29 (all men) in 6 sports
Flag bearer	Fawzi Al-Shammari[1]
Medals Ranked 71st	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
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Kuwait competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The nation won its first Olympic medal at these Games. 29 competitors, all men, took part in ten events in six sports.^[2]

Medalists

Further information: 2000 Summer Olympics medal table and List of 2000 Summer Olympics medal winners

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Fehaid Al-Deehani	Shooting	Men's double trap	September 20

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's 400m

• Fawzi Al Shammari
  1. Round 1 – 46.38 (did not advance)

Men's 4 × 400 m

• Musad Al Azimi, Badar Al Fulaij, Mishal Al Harbi, Fawzi Al Shammari
  1. Round 1 – DQ (did not advance)

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

One fencer represented Kuwait in 2000.

Men's foil

• Abdul Muhsen Ali

Football

Main article: Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's team competition

Team Roster

• ( 1.) Shehab Kankune
• ( 2.) Naser Al-Omran
• ( 3.) Jamal Mubarak
• ( 4.) Bader Najem
• ( 5.) Abdullah Husan
• ( 6.) Nawaf Humaidan
• ( 7.) Adel Al-Anezi
• ( 8.) Naser Al-Othman
• ( 9.) Bashar Abdulaziz
• ( 10.) Faraj Saeed
• ( 11.) Abdullah Saihan
• ( 12.) Hamad Al-Tayyar
• ( 13.) Sadoun Salman
• ( 14.) Khalaf Al-Mutairi
• ( 15.) Saleh Al-Buraiki
• ( 16.) Yousef Zayed
• ( 17.) Esam Al-Kandari
• ( 18.) Nawaf Al-Khaldi

Group C

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	1	2	0	6	4	+2	5
Cameroon	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	5
Kuwait	3	1	0	2	6	8	−2	3
Czech Republic	3	0	2	1	5	6	−1	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

13 September 2000

19:00

Cameroon	3–2	Kuwait
Alnoudji 37' M'Boma 76' Lauren 86'	Report	Mutairi 63' Mubarak 88'

Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane

Attendance: 26,730

Referee: Bruce Grimshaw (New Zealand)

16 September 2000

19:00

Czech Republic	2–3	Kuwait
Heinz 2' Lengyel 90+1'	Report	Mutairi 56' Saeed 64', 73'

Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane

Attendance: 22,182

Referee: Mourad Daami (Tunisia)

19 September 2000

20:00

United States	3–1	Kuwait
Califf 40' Albright 63' Donovan 88'	Report	Najem 83'

Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne

Attendance: 19,684

Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's 100m Backstroke

• Faisal Al Mahmeed
  1. Preliminary Heat – 01:05.17 (did not advance)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

• Sultan Altotaibi
  1. Preliminary Heat – 02:16.23 (did not advance)

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo 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. "Fawzi Al-Shammari". olympedia.org. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
2. "Kuwait at the 2000 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2012.