- Latasha Colander
LaTasha Colander is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for United States. She is a 2004 Olympic Trials 100 m Champion; 2000 Olympic 4x400 m gold medalist; Two-time U.S. 400 m champion (’00, ’01); World Record Holder, 4x200 m relay; 1994 USA Juniors champion (100H); 2nd, 1994 World Junior Champs (100H). She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She missed the 2001 World Championships due to a quadriceps injury. - Morgan Hamm
Morgan Carl Hamm (born September 24, 1982 in Waukesha, Wisconsin) is a US gymnast. He competed at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney while aged 17, and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, alongside his twin brother Paul, helping the American team win the silver medal in the team gymnastics competition. Morgan's contribution to this historic medal was vital: he performed on four of the six pieces and was the highest scorer for the team on vault and high bar, … - Elise Ray
Mary Elise Ray (born February 6, 1982) is an American gymnast who represented the United States at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and the 1999 World Championships. Ray trained at Hill's Angels club in Maryland under Kelli Hill, former coach of Olympic medalists Dominique Dawes and Courtney Kupets. She earned her first US national team berth as a junior in 1996 and turned in a strong performance in her international debut, the 1996 Junior Pan American Championships, … - Sonia O'Sullivan
Sonia O'Sullivan (born November 28, 1969) is an Irish runner from Cobh, County Cork. She was one of the leading female 5000 m runners for most of the 1990s and early 2000s. Her crowning achievement was a Gold medal at the 1995 World Athletics Championships.She won a silver medal at the 2000 Olympics, narrowly beaten by the Romanian Gabriela Szabo and in front of third placed Ethiopian Gete Wami. - Kristen Maloney
Kristen Ann Maloney (born March 10 1981, Hackettstown, New Jersey) is an American gymnast who competed in the 2000 Olympics. Maloney trained at the Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and was a consistent member of the U.S. national gymnastics team from 1993 to 2000. She competed in a variety of minor international competitions as a junior elite and, as a senior, qualified for the 1996 Olympic Trials. - Liu Xuan
Liu Xuan is a Chinese Gymnast. She was born on March 12, 1979 in Changsha, China. She was coached by Guo Xinming and Zhang Zhen. Liu was the first female gymnast to perform a one-arm giant swing on the uneven bars which is named after her in the Gymnastic's Code of Points; she also performed this skill into a Geinger release move. She was strong on balance beam and uneven bars, but weak on vault and floor exercise. - Shareef Abdur-Rahim
Julius Shareef Abdur-Rahim (born December 11, 1976 in Marietta, Georgia) is an American professional basketball player. He is a member of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and can either play as forward or center. Abdur-Rahim was a standout player during his high school days and he left college after one year to enter the 1996 NBA Draft. In his early NBA career, Abdur-Rahim was the star of the Vancouver Grizzlies franchise for five seasons. - Jason Queally
Jason Queally (born 11 May 1970) is an English track cyclist from Chorley, England. He won an Olympic Gold at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. While a student at Lancaster University, he represented Lancaster and British Universities in water polo. He took up competitive cycling aged 25. In 1996, he was nearly killed in an accident at the Meadowbank cycling track in Edinburgh, where an 18-inch sliver of the wooden track entered his chest cavity via his armpit. - Susanthika Jayasinghe
Susanthika Jayasinghe (born December 17, 1975 in Atnawala, Sri Lanka) is a sprint athlete specializing in the 100 and 200 metres. Brought up in a poor family in a small village 60 kilometres north of Colombo, where running spikes cost more than the average month's wage, Susanthika had no access to proper sports equipment or coaches. - Beverly McDonald
Beverly McDonald (born February 15, 1970 in Saint Mary, Jamaica) is a Jamaican sprinter. Her accomplishments include winning the silver medal in 4x100m relay at the 2000 Olympics. Beverly McDonald is the sister of Michael McDonald. - Anky van Grunsven
Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda 'Anky' van Grunsven (born 2 January 1968 in Erp) is a Dutch Dressage champion who won the gold medal in the 2000 Olympics with her horse "Bonfire" and gold in the 2004 Olympics with "Salinero". Anky is married to her trainer/coach Sjef Janssen who entered the world of horses at the age of 28 and introduced new views on training. In 2005, accusations of abusive training by Van Grunsven appeared in the German horse magazine St. Georg. - Javier Sotomayor
Javier Sotomayor (born October 13, 1967 in Matanzas, Cuba) is a Cuban former athlete who specialized in the high jump. He is 1.94 meters tall. Sotomayor set an age 16 world record in 1984 of 2.33 metres in Havana, but was not able to go to the 1984 Olympics due to the Cuban boycott. In 1985 he took silver in the World Indoor Championships with a best jump of 2.30 metres, and won his first title in 1987, at the Pan American Games. - Jamie Dantzscher
Jamie Annette Dantzscher (b. May 2, 1982, Canoga Park, California, USA) is a retired American gymnast. She was a member of the fourth-place US team at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Training at Charter Oak Gliders club in southern California, Dantzscher was a member of the US national gymnastics team for eight years, starting in 1994. In her international debut, the 1996 City of Popes competition in France, she won the all-around and the floor exercise titles. - Maria Olaru
Maria Olaru is a retired Olympic gymnast from Romania. Olaru began gymnastics at the age of six in her hometown of Fălticeni, but quickly transferred to the local gymnastics club in Deva. She moved up to the junior national team in 1993, but after six months, she returned to her home club. In 1995 she rejoined the junior team in Bucharest. Olaru graduated to the Deva national training facility in 1996, … - Tony Gunawan
Tony Gunawan (born April 9, 1975) is an Indonesian professional doubles badminton player whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful doubles players of all time. He is a former Olympic gold medalist and world champion for Indonesia, and now represents the United States. At the age of 31, he is regarded by many, including his peers, as one of the greatest doubles players of all time. - Butch Johnson
Richard "Butch" Johnson (b. August 30 1955) is an archer from Woodstock, Connecticut in the United States. He has competed in the Summer Olympics four times, and was a part of the gold medal U.S. team at the 1996 Olympics and the bronze medal U.S. team in the 2000 Olympics. At the 2004 Olympics, he was surprisingly eliminated by Ron van der Hoff with 135-145 in the round of 64, placing 52nd overall in men's individual archery. - Patrick Mboma
Henri Patrick Mboma Dem is a former Cameroonian football striker, the all-time top goal-scorer for the Cameroonian national team. He started his domestic football career in 1993, and during his career played for Châteauroux, Paris Saint-Germain, FC Metz, Gamba Osaka, Cagliari, Parma, Sunderland,Al Ittihad, Tokyo Verdy and Vissel Kobe, before retiring on May 16, 2005. After first being capped for Cameroon in 1995, Mboma has scored 33 goals in 57 matches. - Lisa Skinner
Lisa Skinner (born February 17, 1981, Clear Mountain, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian gymnast who competed at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. Skinner began gymnastics in 1987 at Lawnton Academy. Between 1995 and 2004 she was a consistent presence on the Australian team, competing at four World Championships, three Olympic Games and many other international meets. In 1997 and 1996 she was the Australian National Champion. - Annika Reeder
Annika Louise Reeder (born September 28, 1979, Harlow, Essex, Great Britain) is a British gymnast. She was the first gymnast from Great Britain to compete in two Olympic Games, in 1996 and 2000. Reeder began gymnastics at the age of three in 1982, following in the footsteps of her sister Kirsty. She trained at the South Essex Gym Club under coach Rod Smith. - Conor Casey
Conor Patrick Casey (born July 25, 1981 in Dover, New Hampshire) is an American soccer player. He is currently playing in Major League Soccer with the Colorado Rapids. Casey grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he played soccer at South High School. He went on to play two years of college soccer at the University of Portland for legendary coach Clive Charles, from 1999 to 2000. In his first year at Portland, Casey was named Soccer America's Freshman of the Year. - Dave Nilsson
David ("Dave") Wayne Nilsson (born December 14, 1969 in Brisbane, Australia) is a former Australian baseball player who played as catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers from 1992 to 1999. Arguably the most successful Aussie in major league history, he was an all-star in 1999, and ended his career on October 3 1999 with 837 games played, 789 hits, 105 home runs and a .284 career batting average. - Craig MacLean
Craig MacLean (born 31 July, 1971 in Grantown-on-Spey) is a Scottish race cyclist who has represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2000 Olympics and 2004 Olympics winning a Silver Medal in the Team Sprint at the 2000 Olympics. MacLean has also won medals in five Cycling World Championships in the team Sprint, Silver in 1999,Silver in 2000,Bronze in 2001,Gold in 2002,Bronze in 2003 and Bronze in 2004. - Ryan Franklin
Ryan Ray Franklin (born March 5, 1973) is a Major League Baseball player. Franklin is a right-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. On August 2, 2005, Franklin became the eighth Major League player, and second Mariner, to test positive for steroid use. He received a ten day suspension. Franklin was a member of the gold medal winning US baseball team at the 2000 Olympics, where he had a 3-0 pitching record in 4 appearances. - Carles Puyol
Carles Puyol i Saforcada (born April 13, 1978 in La Pobla de Segur, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish footballer who is the current team captain of FC Barcelona. He is a regular in the Spanish national team. Puyol played for Spain at the 2000 Olympics, 2002 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2004 and the 2006 FIFA World Cup; Puyol has been capped over 60 times. He has also played for the unofficial Catalonia national football team in one friendly. - Deon Hemmings
Deon Hemmings (born 10 September 1968 in Saint Ann, Jamaica) is a former female 400 metres hurdler. Hemmings was the first ever Jamaican woman to win an Olympic Gold when she won the 400m Hurdles at the 1996 Olympics breaking the Olympic record which stood to 2004. Hemmings also won two silver medals at the 2000 Olympics in the 400m Hurdles and 4x400m Relay (together with Sandie Richards, Catherine Scott-Pomales and Lorraine Graham). - Michael Blackwood
He has never won any major tournament, although he did come close in the 2003 World Championships in Paris Saint-Denis where he finished fourth. In the 400 Metres competition at the 2004 Olympic Games he finished eighth with 45.55. In the Helsinki 2005, he only reached the semi finals, finishing third in his heat. Blackwood has, however, been part of many successful 4 x 400 relay teams. He won the bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics, … - Donna Fraser
Donna Fraser (born November 7, 1972) is an English athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. She finished 4th at the 2000 Olympics with a personal best time of 49.79 seconds. In addition to winning the bronze medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, she has been a fairly successful relay runner. - Ernie Young
Ernest Wesley Young (born July 8, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois) is a center fielder who has played for the Oakland Athletics (1994-97), Kansas City Royals (1998), Arizona Diamondbacks (1999), Yokohama Baystars (Japan) (2002), Detroit Tigers (2003) and Cleveland Indians (2004). In 8 seasons he played in 288 Games, had 796 At Bats, 108 Runs, 179 Hits, 33 Doubles, 4 Triples, 27 Home Runs, 90 RBI, 10 Stolen Bases, 90 Walks, .225 Batting Average, .310 On-base percentage, … - Josip Skoko
Josip Skoko (born December 10 1975 in Mount Gambier, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder of Croatian descent who plays for Wigan Athletic in the Premier League. He is an Australian international and made his debut for Australia against Macedonia in 1997. Skoko has been a main-stay of the "Socceroos" side since his debut, participating in two World Cup qualifying campaigns. - Derek Porter
Derek Porter (born November 2, 1967 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an olympic rower from Canada. Porter won his gold medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics, stroking the Canadian Men's Eight. In a photo finish, the Canadian boat won by 0.14 seconds, just nipping Romania, with two-time defending World Champion Germany just 1.5 seconds back in third. The Canadian time of 5:29.53 is still the fastest ever rowed in an Olympic final. - Steph Cook
Stephanie Cook MBE (born February 7, 1972 in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland) is a retired modern pentathlete and Olympic gold medallist. She was educated at Bedford High School; The Perse School for Girls; Peterhouse, Cambridge and then Lincoln College, Oxford, where she read medicine. Having rowed at Cambridge she took up modern pentathlon whilst completing her course in clinical medicine at Oxford. - Jai Taurima
Jai Taurima (born June 26, 1972 in Southport, Queensland, Australia) is a former athlete who competed in the long jump. He won a surprising silver medal at the 2000 Olympics with a personal best jump of 8.49 metres. This is also the current Oceanian record. It was during this Olympics that Channel 9 commentator Ray 'Rabbits' Warren coined the catchcry 'Jumpin' Jai, its time to fly'. - Justin Huish
Justin Huish (born January 9, 1975 in Fountain Valley, California) is an internationally known archer. Growing up, his parents ran an archery pro shop, but Justin did not take up shooting until he was fourteen. He practiced by standing on his neighbor's lawn and shooting arrows across the street, through the front door of the garage, through the back door of the garage and into a target in his back yard. - Shinji Ono
is a Japanese football player, who plays as a midfielder for the Japanese national team and Urawa Red Diamonds of J. League Known as "Tensai", Japanese for "Genius", from his youth days, Ono is one of the biggest stars in Asian football, known for his vision and versatility, as well as his big smile. Although his primary position is attacking midfielder, he can play anywhere in the midfield, including defensive midfield and either wing. - Mark Bradtke
Mark Bradtke (born September 27 1968 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian former professional basketball player in Australia's NBL. He started his career with the Adelaide 36ers before moving to the Melbourne Tigers and then to the Brisbane Bullets. He was a prominent player for the Australian Boomers playing in the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics, and the 1990 and 1994 FIBA World Championship. - Ludivine Furnon
Ludivine Furnon is a retired Olympic athlete from France. She was the first French female gymnast ever to medal at the World Gymnastics Championships. Although she attended dance classes from the age of eight, Furnon did not study gymnastics until April 1992, when she was eleven years old. Her rise in the sport was astonishingly rapid. In early 1994, less than two years after beginning gymnastics, … - Kate Howey
Kate Howey (born May 31, 1973) is a former British judoka, the only British judoka to have competed at four Olympic Games. Howey is also the only British woman to have won two Olympic judo medals (silver at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and bronze at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona). She was also selected to carry the British flag at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Olympics in Athens. She announced her retirement from competition on October 27, 2004, … - Delloreen Ennis-London
Delloreen Ennis-London (born March 5, 1975) is a Jamaican hurdling athlete who won the silver medal in the 100 meter hurdles at the 2005 World Championships. She was a mediocre hurdler until 1999, when she improved by more than 50/100. Achieving the result of 12.52 in 2000, she finished fourth at the 2000 Olympics. In Athens 2004, however, she only reached the semi final. She did not beat her own personal best until April 2004 in Denton, Texas, … - Brigita Langerholc
Brigita Langerholc (born July 23 1976) is a Slovenian middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 metres. She finished fourth at the 2000 Olympics in a personal best time of 1:58.51 minutes, which still stands. In 2001 she won the silver medal at the Mediterranean Games and a gold medal at the Universiade. She then finished fifth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg and sixth at the 2007 European Indoor Championships. - Tim Brabants
Tim Brabants (born 23 January 1977 in Chertsey) is a British flatwater canoeist who won the individual kayak 1000m (k1) bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics. He went on to become K-1 1000m European champion at Szeged, Hungary in 2002, the first time a British paddler had won the blue riband event. The 2004 Olympics however were a disappointment.
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