The People's Republic of China competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The team excluded athletes from the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, after the territory's return to Chinese rule in 1997, and which competed separately as Hong Kong, China.
271 competitors, 91 men and 180 women, took part in 163 events in 28 sports. China finished for the first time in the top 3 with 28 gold medals. China also broke the record for the most gold medals won by Asian countries at a single Summer Olympics (28), which was previously set by Japan in 1964 (16) and by China in 1992 (16) and 1996 (16).
Medalists
Results by event
Unless otherwise indicated, all results are derived from the Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad.
Archery
Defending silver medalist He Ying was defeated by one of the Korean women in the round of 16.
Individual events
Teams
Athletics
Men's track
Men's field
Women's track
Women's field
Badminton
Men
Singles
Doubles
Women
Singles
Doubles
Mixed doubles
Basketball
Men's
Team roster
Guo Shiqiang
Hu Weidong
Li Nan
Li Qun
Li Xiaoyong
Liu Yudong
Mengke Bateer
Sun Jun
Wang Zhizhi
Yao Ming
Zhang Jingsong
Zheng Wu
Results
Group A Summary
Preliminary round
9/10th classification match
Beach volleyball
Boxing
Cycling
Road
Cross-country
Track
Sprint
Time trial
Diving
China won ten medals at the diving competition — five gold medals and five silver medals. Fu Mingxia, who had retired after the 1996 Olympics, came back to win a gold and silver medal and became the first woman to win five Olympic medals.
Men
Women
Fencing
Thirteen fencers, six men and seven women, represented China in 2000. Men
Women
Football
The Chinese women's team finished fifth overall in the competition.
Women's tournament
Team roster
Bai Jie
Fan Yunjie
Gao Hong
Jin Yan
Liu Ailing
Liu Ying
Pu Wei
Sun Wen – Top scorer (4 goals) Wang Liping Wen Lirong Xie Huilin Zhang Ouying Zhao Lihong
Group stage
Gymnastics
Men's artistic
Team
Individual events
Women's artistic
Team
The Chinese women's gymnastics team won the bronze medal but their medals were stripped ten years later, in 2010, due to Dong Fangxiao's age at the time of the competition. Their bronze medals were awarded to the United States' team.
Individual events
Hockey
Women's team competition
Team roster
Cai Xuemei
Chen Zhaoxia
Cheng Hui
Hou Xiaolan
Huang Junxia
Liu Lijie
Long Fengyu
Nie Yali
Shen Lihong
Tang Chunling
Wang Jiuyan
Yang Hongbing
Yang Huiping
Yu Yali
Zhou Wanfeng
Summary
Judo
Men
Women
Modern pentathlon
Rowing
Sailing
One man and three women competed for the People's Republic of China in the sailing competition at the 2000 Olympics, in three events.
Men's Mistral
Zhou Yuanguo
Race 1 – (37) OCS
Race 2 – 6
Race 3 – 23
Race 4 – (37) DSQ
Race 5 – 18
Race 6 – 2
Race 7 – 3
Race 8 – 2
Race 9 – 1
Race 10 – 1
Race 11 – 8
Final – 64 (5th place)
Women's Mistral
Zhang Chujun
Race 1 – 10
Race 2 – (17) Race 3 – 8 Race 4 – (11) Race 5 – 6 Race 6 – 3 Race 7 – 5 Race 8 – 5 Race 9 – 8 Race 10 – 8 Race 11 – 7 Final – 60 (7th place)
Women's Double Handed Dinghy (470) Yang Xiaoyan and Li Dongying Race 1 – (19) Race 2 – 14 Race 3 – (19) Race 4 – 18 Race 5 – 11 Race 6 – 16 Race 7 – 18 Race 8 – 18 Race 9 – 16 Race 10 – 17 Race 11 – 12 Final – 140 (19th place)