The 2000 Sydney Olympics rowing regatta featured Steve Redgrave's fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal across a record 16-year span.
Key Facts
- Competitors
- 547 (363 men, 184 women)
- Nations represented
- 51
- Events contested
- 14
- Medal-winning nations
- 20
- Redgrave's gold medals span
- 16 years (1984–2000)
- Top nation (gold medals)
- Romania with 3 golds
By the Numbers
Location
Cause → Event → Consequence
As part of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, rowing events were scheduled at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in Penrith, drawing 547 athletes from 51 nations competing across 14 events in both men's and women's disciplines.
The regatta produced a series of closely contested races. Great Britain's Steve Redgrave won his fifth consecutive Olympic gold in the coxless four, Romania's Elisabeta Lipă claimed her fourth gold, and Belarus's Ekaterina Karsten won the women's single sculls by one hundredth of a second in a photo finish.
Medals were distributed across 20 nations, with Romania topping the table on three golds and Germany leading in overall count with six. Great Britain's victory in the men's eight ended a drought stretching back to 1912, and Redgrave's achievement set a benchmark for Olympic rowing longevity.
Result
at Sydney International Regatta Centre, Penrith