Poland at the 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	POL
NOC	Polish Olympic Committee
Website	www.pkol.pl (in Polish)
inSydney
Competitors	187 (129 men and 58 women) in 20 sports
Flag bearer	Andrzej Wroński
Medals Ranked 14th	Gold 6 Silver 5 Bronze 3 Total 14
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1900, 1912)  Austria (1908–1912)

Poland competed at the2000 Summer Olympics inSydney, Australia. 187 competitors, 129 men and 58 women, took part in 133 events in 20 sports.^[1]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Robert Korzeniowski	Athletics	Men's 20 km walk	22 September
Gold	Robert Korzeniowski	Athletics	Men's 50 km walk	29 September
Gold	Tomasz Kucharski Robert Sycz	Rowing	Men's lightweight double sculls	24 September
Gold	Renata Mauer	Shooting	Women's 50 m rifle three positions	20 September
Gold	Kamila Skolimowska	Athletics	Women's hammer throw	29 September
Gold	Szymon Ziółkowski	Athletics	Men's hammer throw	24 September
Silver	Sylwia Gruchała Magdalena Mroczkiewicz Anna Rybicka Barbara Wolnicka-Szewczyk	Fencing	Women's team foil	23 September
Silver	Daniel Jędraszko Paweł Baraszkiewicz	Canoeing	Men's C-2 500 metres	1 October
Silver	Szymon Kołecki	Weightlifting	Men's 94 kg	24 September
Silver	Krzysztof Kołomański Michał Staniszewski	Canoeing	Men's slalom C-2	20 September
Silver	Agata Wróbel	Weightlifting	Women's +75 kg	22 September
Bronze	Leszek Blanik	Gymnastics	Men's vault	22 September
Bronze	Grzegorz Kotowicz Adam Seroczyński Dariusz Białkowski Marek Witkowski	Canoeing	Men's K-4 1000 metres	30 September
Bronze	Beata Sokołowska Aneta Pastuszka	Canoeing	Women's K-2 500 metres	1 October

Poland entered three women and two men in its seventh appearance in Olympic archery. Four of the five archers won their first match, withJoanna Nowicka making it to the quarterfinal and taking eighth place.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Grzegorz Targoński	Men's individual	633	21	Matsushita (JPN) (44) W 166–164	van Alten (NED) (12) L 157–160	did not advance				22
Bartosz Mikos	Men's individual	606	49	Fu S (CHN) (16) W 157–155	Tsyrempilov (RUS) (17) L 154–163	did not advance				23
Joanna Nowicka	Women's individual	633	24	Moroz (BLR) (41) W 152–139	Ericsson (SWE) (9) W 162–152	Yang J (CHN) (25) W 162–158	Kim S-N (KOR) (1) L 106–100	did not advance		8
Anna Łęcka	Women's individual	630	28	Plotnikova (KAZ) (37) W 163–149	Sadovnycha (UKR) (5) W 159–158	Bolotova (RUS) (21) L 161–157	did not advance			13
Agata Bulwa	Women's individual	603	60	Sadovnycha (UKR) (5) L 163–155	did not advance					37
Joanna Nowicka Agata Bulwa Anna Łęcka	Team	1866	11	—		Turkey (TUR) (6) L 217–227	did not advance			11

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Piotr Balcerzak	100 m	10.42	36Q	10.38	29	did not advance
Piotr Gładki	Marathon	—						DNF
Piotr Haczek	400 m	45.61	14Q	45.43	13Q	45.66	12	did not advance
Paweł Januszewski	400 m hurdles	51.40	48Q	—		48.42	5q	48.44	6
Robert Korzeniowski	20 km walk	—						1:18:59
	50 km walk	—						3:42:22
Marcin Kuśzewski	110 m hurdles	DNF		did not advance
Tomasz Lipiec	50 km walk	—						DNF
Robert Maćkowiak	400 m	45.39	7Q	45.01	2Q	45.53	8Q	45.14	5
Roman Magdziarczyk	50 km walk	—						3:48:17	8
Marcin Nowak	100 m	10.27	7Q	10.37	27	did not advance
Piotr Rysiukiewicz	400 m	46.67	50	did not advance
Tomasz Ścigaczewski	110 m hurdles	13.53	5Q	13.60	12Q	13.51	12	did not advance
Marcin Urbaś	200 m	20.62	10Q	20.43	13	did not advance
Rafał Wójcik	3000 m steeplechase	08:33.51	21	—				did not advance
Piotr Balcerzak Marcin Nowak Ryszard Pilarczyk Marcin Urbaś	4 × 100 m relay	38.74	4q	—		38.60	6q	38.96	8
Jacek Bocian Piotr Długosielski Piotr Haczek Robert Maćkowiak Piotr Rysiukiewicz Filip Walotka	4 × 400 m relay	03:01.30	2Q	—		03:00.66	5q	03:03.22	6

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Maciej Pałyszko	Hammer throw	76.33	13	did not advance
Olgierd Stański	Discus throw	59.31	29	did not advance
Dariusz Trafas	Javelin throw	83.98	7Q	82.30	10
Szymon Ziółkowski	Hammer throw	77.81	4Q	80.02

Women

Track & road events

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska	Shot put	18.93	4Q	19.18	5
Monika Pyrek	Pole vault	4.30	12q	4.40	7
Kamila Skolimowska	Hammer throw	66.30	3Q	71.16OR
Katarzyna Żakowicz	Shot put	16.95	18	did not advance

Combined events –Heptathlon

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Katarzyna Krasowska	Women's singles	Grether (GER) L 12–13, 2–11	did not advance
Michał Łogosz Robert Mateusiak	Men's doubles	—	Bamford / Blackburn (AUS) W 15–5, 16–17, 15–6	Archer / Robertson (GBR) L 1–15, 10–15	did not advance

• Team roster

• Dorota Bukowska
• Joanna Cupryś
• Patrycja Czepiec
• Katarzyna Dydek
• Małgorzata Dydek
• Edyta Koryzna
• Ilona Mądra
• Beata Predehl
• Krystyna Szymańska-Lara
• Elżbieta Trześniewska
• Anna Wielebnowska
• Sylwia Wlaźlak

• Group play

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
United States	5	0	446	312	+134	10
Russia	3	2	398	325	+73	8	1.30
South Korea	3	2	343	296	+47	8	0.91
Poland	3	2	327	339	−12	8	0.84
Cuba	1	4	318	358	−40	6
New Zealand	0	5	304	396	−92	5

16 September 9:30

Poland

75–52

New Zealand

The Dome,Sydney

18 September 11:30

Russia

84–46

Poland

The Dome,Sydney

20 September 19:30

Poland

87–62

South Korea

The Dome,Sydney

22 September 21:30

Poland

72–65

Cuba

The Dome,Sydney

24 September 19:30

United States

76–57

Poland

The Dome,Sydney

27 September 19:30

Australia

76–48

Poland

The Dome,Sydney

29 September 9:30

7th place

Slovakia

64–57

Poland

Sydney Superdome,Sydney

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Andrzej Rżany	Flyweight	Augustin (MAD) W RSC	Lerio (PHI) L 18*-18	Sidorenko (UKR) L RSC	did not advance		5
Robert Ciba	Bantamweight	Sabo (NGR) L RSC-3	did not advance
Mariusz Cendrowski	Light welterweight	Hwang (KOR) L 4–14	did not advance
Paweł Kakietek	Middleweight	Abudoureheman (CHN) W RSC	Lacy (USA) L 7–21	did not advance
Wojciech Bartnik	Heavyweight	—	Bennett (USA) L 2–11	did not advance
Grzegorz Kiełsa	Super Heavyweight	—	Dildabekov (KAZ) L 5–16	did not advance

Athlete	Event	Qualifying				Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Result	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Result	Rank
Krzysztof Bieryt	Men's C-1	132.85	132.19	265.04	3Q	126.36	126.87	253.23	11
Krzysztof Kołomański Michał Staniszewski	Men's C-2	148.46	137.48	285.94	6Q	124.19	119.62	243.81
Andrzej Wójs Sławomir Mordarski		144.48	142.48	286.96	7Q	121.74	133.77	255.51	6
Beata Grzesik	Women's K-1	208.80	147.58	356.38	19	did not advance

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Michał Gajownik	C-1 500 m	02:04.704	9	did not advance			18
Daniel Jędraszko	C-1 1000 m	04:25.726	9	did not advance			18
Grzegorz Kotowicz	K-1 500 m	1:40.204	1Q	1:41.198	3Q	2:07.711	9
Rafał Głażewski	K-1 1000 m	3:43.227	6Q	3:46.761	8	did not advance	21
Daniel Jędraszko Paweł Baraszkiewicz	C-2 500 m	1:41.511	1Q	BYE		1:51.536
Paweł Baraszkiewicz Michał Gajownik	C-2 1000 m	3:39.311	3Q	BYE		3:52.229	8
Marek Twardowski Adam Wysocki	K-2 500 m	1:32.350	2Q	1:30.026	2Q	1:48.963	5
	K-2 1000 m	3:15.909	5Q	3:18.026	3Q	3:19.939	8
Dariusz Białkowski Grzegorz Kotowicz Adam Seroczyński Marek Witkowski	K-4 1000 m	3:00.166	2Q	BYE		2:55.704

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Elżbieta Urbańczyk	K-1 500 m	1:53.202	3Q	BYE		2:18.018	5
Aneta Pastuszka Beata Sokołowska	K-2 500 m	1:42.905	2Q	BYE		1:58.784
Aneta Pastuszka Joanna Skowroń Aneta Michalak Beata Sokołowska	K-4 500 m	1:35.887	2Q	BYE		1:37.076	4

1000m time trial

Men's Sprint

Team sprint

Men's Keirin

Ten fencers, six men and four women, represented Poland in 2000.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Adam Krzesiński	Individual foil	BYE	D Shevchenko (RUS) L 8–15	did not advance				26
Sławomir Mocek		Ben Aziza (TUN) W 15–2	García (CUB) W 15–9	Breutner (GER) L 8–15	did not advance			16
Ryszard Sobczak		BYE	Bayer (USA) L 9–15	did not advance				24
Adam Krzesiński Ryszard Sobczak Sławomir Mocek	Team foil	—			Germany (GER) W 45–37	France (FRA) L 38–45	Italy (ITA) L 38–45	4
Norbert Jaskot	Individual sabre	BYE	Covaliu (ROU) L 12–15	did not advance				26
Marcin Sobala		Frosin (RUS) L 11–15	did not advance					24
Rafał Sznajder		BYE	Huttsait (UKR) L 14–15	did not advance				22
Janusz Olech Norbert Jaskot Rafał Sznajder	Team sabre	—		BYE	Romania (ROU) L 26–45	Classification semi-final  Hungary (HUN) L 41–45	7th place final  Italy (ITA) W 45–39	7

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sylwia Gruchała	Individual foil	BYE	Knapek (HUN) W 15–8	Vezzali (ITA) L 8–15	did not advance			13
Magdalena Mroczkiewicz		BYE	Boyko (RUS) W 15–9	Xiao A (CHN) L 13–15	did not advance			14
Anna Rybicka		BYE	Meng J (CHN) L 9–15	did not advance				22
Sylwia Gruchała Magdalena Mroczkiewicz Anna Rybicka Barbara Wolnicka-Szewczyk	Team foil	—		BYE	China (CHN) W 45–43	Germany (GER) W 45–34	Italy (ITA) L 36–45

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB			F	PH	R	V	PB	HB
Leszek Blanik	Vault	—	8.575	9.275	9.700Q	8.775	—			—			9.475	—		9.475

Women

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Australia	5	3	2	0	12	6	11
South Korea	5	2	2	1	9	7	8
India	5	2	2	1	9	7	8
Argentina	5	1	2	2	13	13	5
Poland	5	1	2	2	12	14	4
Spain	5	0	2	3	7	15	2

  Advanced to semifinals

17 September 2000 08:30 Australia  4–0  Poland Elmer 34', 52' Stacy 47' Brennan 58' Report Umpires: Christian Siebrecht (GER) Jason McCracken (NZL)

19 September 2000 10:30 Spain  1–4  Poland Arnau 51' Report Grzeszczak 15' Mikula 16', 38' Grotowski 28' Umpires: Amarjit Singh (MAS) Steven Horgan (USA)

21 September 2000 10:30 Argentina  5–5  Poland Lombi 6', 23', 41', 63' Capurro 66' Report L. Wybieralski 31' Mikula 45', 51' Jakubiak 60' Grotowski 67' Umpires: Jason McCracken (NZL) Sumesh Putra (CAN)

24 September 2000 21:00 Poland  2–3  South Korea Grotowski 53' Mikula 62' Report Yeo Woon-Kon 11' Kang Keon-Wook 18' Hwang Jong-Hyun 37' Umpires: Christian Siebrecht (GER) Jason McCracken (NZL)

26 September 2000 20:30 Poland  1–1  India Cichy 69' Report Tirkey 53' Umpires: Eric Denis (BEL) Christian Siebrecht (GER)

28 September 2000 17:30 Canada  3–2  Poland Gifford 37' Wettlaufer 39' Bird 59' Report K. Wybieralski 23' Gaczkowski 45' Umpires: Henrik Ehlers (DEN) Amrjit Singh (MAS)

30 September 2000 11:30 Malaysia  3–2 (a.e.t.)  Poland Mirnawan 5' Nor Saiful 48' Kuhan 73' Report L. Wybieralski 17' Jakubiak 52' Umpires: Henrik Ehlers (DEN) Murray Grime (AUS)

• Team roster

• [01.]Paweł Sobczak (gk)
• [03.]Paweł Jakubiak
• [04.]Dariusz Małecki
• [06.]Tomasz Szmidt
• [07.]Robert Grzeszczak
• [08.]Zbigniew Juszczak
• [10.]Rafał Grotowski
• [13.]Krzysztof Wybieralski
• [14.]Tomasz Choczaj
• [15.]Piotr Mikuła
• [17.]Tomasz Cichy
• [19.]Dariusz Marcinkowski
• [20.]Łukasz Wybieralski
• [21.]Aleksander Korcz
• [25.]Eugeniusz Gaczkowski
• [30.]Marcin Pobuta (gk)

• Head coach:Jerzy Wybieralski

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jarosław Lewak	−73 kg	BYE	Stangl (AUT) W 1000-0000	Nakamura (JPN) L 0000-1001	did not advance						AC
Robert Krawczyk	−81 kg	Arteaga (CUB) L 0000-1000	did not advance								AC
Paweł Nastula	−100 kg	BYE	Ze'evi (ISR) L 0000-1110	did not advance							AC
Rafał Kubacki	+100 kg	BYE	Rusliakov (UKR) L 0001-0003	did not advance							AC

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Beata Maksymow	+78 kg	BYE	Rosensteel (USA) L 0010–0001	did not advance						AC

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Piotr Basta Piotr Bochenek	Pair	6:58.47	5R	6:48.74	2Q	6:43.38	5FB	6:39.44	10
Adam Korol Marek Kolbowicz	Double Sculls	6:31.91	2R	6:32.30	1Q	6:31.26	3Q	6:32.11	6
Karol Łazar Sławomir Kruszkowski Adam Bronikowski Michał Wojciechowski	Quadruple sculls	5:58.09	3Q	BYE		6:02.11	6FB	5:51.79	8
Paweł Jarosiński Rafał Smoliński Artur Rozalski} Arkadiusz Sobkowiak	Coxless four	6:22.00	4R	6:15.75	4	did not advance
Robert Sycz Tomasz Kucharski	Lwt double scull	6:34.28	1Q	BYE		6:20.60	1Q	6:21.75

Women

Poland competed in seven Sailing events with three top 10 finishes.

Men

Women

Open

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Renata Mauer	50 m rifle three positions	585	3Q	684.6
	10 m air rifle	392	15	did not advance
Mirosława Sagun	10 m air pistol	379	16	did not advance

Men

Women

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Bronze medal	Final
		Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Lucjan Błaszczyk	Men's singles	Group F  Crişan (ROU) W 3 – 2  Gerada (AUS) W 3 – 0	1Q	Gatien (FRA) W 3 – 0	Kong (CHN) L 2 – 3	did not advance
Tomasz Krzeszewski	Men's singles	Group K  Lavale (AUS) W 3 – 0  Heister (NED) L 0 – 3	2	did not advance

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Group round		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Bronze medal	Final
		Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Lucjan Błaszczyk Tomasz Krzeszewski	Men's doubles	Group F  Hoyama / Issamu (BRA) W 2 – 0  Korbel / Plachy (CZE) W 2 – 0	1Q	Kong / Liu G (CHN) L 2 – 3	did not advance

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch			Clean & Jerk			Total	Rank
		1	2	3	1	2	3
Krzysztof Siemion	– 85 kg	162.5	167.5	167.5	202.5	207.5	212.5	380.0	4
Mariusz Rytkowski	– 85 kg	160.0	165.0	170.0	200.0	205.0	205.0	370.0	9
Szymon Kołecki	– 94 kg	175.0	180.0	182.5	222.5	227.5	-	405.0
Grzegorz Kleszcz	– 105 kg	180.0	185.0	190.0	220.0	227.5	227.5	405.0	8
Mariusz Jędra	– 105 kg	175.0	180.0	180.0	215.0	215.0	220.0	390.0	9
Paweł Najdek	+ 105 kg	180.0	185.0	185.0	240.0	245.0	250.0	425.0	7

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch			Clean & Jerk			Total	Rank
		1	2	3	1	2	3
Aleksandra Klejnowska	– 58 kg	85.0	90.0	92.5	112.5	112.5	112.5	202.5	5
Beata Prei	– 69 kg	95.0	100.0	102.5	125.0	130.0	130.0	225.0	8
Agata Wróbel	+ 75 kg	125.0	125.0	132.5	155.0	162.5	170.0	295.0

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mariusz Dąbrowski	−69 kg	Sánchez (CUB) L 0–7	Kasabov (BUL) L 2–3	—	3	did not advance			18
Marcin Jurecki	−76 kg	Ozoline (AUS) W 10–0	Muzayev (UKR) L 1–3	Eui-jae (KOR) L 1–5	3	did not advance			8
Marek Garmulewicz	−97 kg	Schmeichel (CAN) W 3–0	Szerda (AUS) W 3–0	Shemarov (BLR) W 3–2	1Q	BYE	Bairamukov (KAZ) L 0–3	Kurtanidze (GEO) L 1–4	4

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Dariusz Jabłoński	−54 kg	Kwon-ho (KOR) L 0–10	Assembekov (KAZ) L 2–7	—	3	did not advance			19
Włodzimierz Zawadzki	−63 kg	Samurgashev (RUS) L 0–8	Eroğlu (TUR) L PA	—	3	did not advance			19
Ryszard Wolny	−69 kg	Glushkov (RUS) L 1–8	Adzhi (UKR) W 7–1	Kopytov (BLR) W PA	2	did not advance			7
Artur Michalkiewicz	−76 kg	Iutana (SAM) W 11–0	Makaranka (BLR) L 1–4	Manukyan (UKR) L 2–8	3	did not advance			9
Andrzej Wroński	−97 kg	Chkhaidze (GEO) L 0–2	Mambetov (TUR) W 7–1	—	2	did not advance			13
Marek Sitnik	−130 kg	Vala (CZE) L 0–4	Bakir (TUR) L 0–1	Evseitchik (ISR) W 0–3	4	did not advance			17

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