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Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games:
Men's 400 metres
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Host City: Sydney, Australia
Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales
Date Started: September 22, 2000
Date Finished: September 25, 2000
| Gold: |  Michael Johnson |
| Silver: | Alvin Harrison |
| Bronze: |  Greg Haughton |
Summary
The defending champion was Michael Johnson (USA) who had won the last four World Championships. At the 1999 Worlds in Sevilla, Spain, he had finally broken the world record with 43.18. There was probably not a bigger favorite in Sydney. The runners expected to challenge him were, well, … nobody. And that was how it worked out. Johnson won the final by six metres over teammate Alvin Harrison. A few days later he anchored the US team to the 4×400 gold medal and said adieu to his track career. In 2008, after revelations about two runners of the US 4×400 team having taken drugs in 2000, that medal was removed from the United States and Johnson willingly returned his final gold medal to the IOC.
Final Standings
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Johnson | 33 | United States | USA | Gold | |
| 2 | Alvin Harrison | 26 | United States | USA | Silver | |
| 3 | Greg Haughton | 26 | Jamaica | JAM | Bronze | |
| 4 | Sanderlei Parrela | 23 | Brazil | BRA | ||
| 5 | Robert Maćkowiak | 30 | Poland | POL | ||
| 6 | Hendrik Mokganyetsi | 25 | South Africa | RSA | ||
| 7 | Danny McFarlane | 28 | Jamaica | JAM | ||
| 5 h1 r3/4 | Avard Moncur | 21 | Bahamas | BAH | ||
| 5 h2 r3/4 | Daniel Caines | 21 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 6 h1 r3/4 | Piotr Haczek | 23 | Poland | POL | ||
| 6 h2 r3/4 | Casey Vincent | 21 | Australia | AUS | ||
| 7 h1 r3/4 | Pat Dwyer | 22 | Australia | AUS | ||
| 7 h2 r3/4 | Alessandro Attene | 23 | Italy | ITA | ||
| 8 h1 r3/4 | Hamdan Al-Bishi | 19 | Saudi Arabia | KSA | ||
| AC h2 r3/4 | Davian Clarke | 24 | Jamaica | JAM | ||
| 5 h1 r2/4 | Éric Milazar | 25 | Mauritius | MRI | ||
| 5 h2 r2/4 | Ibrahima Wade | 32 | France | FRA | ||
| 5 h3 r2/4 | Dmitry Golovastov | 29 | Russia | RUS | ||
| 5 h4 r2/4 | Marc Raquil | 23 | France | FRA | ||
| 6 h1 r2/4 | Sugath Thilakaratne | 27 | Sri Lanka | SRI | ||
| 6 h2 r2/4 | Davis Kamoga | 32 | Uganda | UGA | ||
| 6 h3 r2/4 | Chris Brown | 21 | Bahamas | BAH | ||
| 6 h4 r2/4 | Alejandro Cárdeñas | 25 | Mexico | MEX | ||
| 7 h1 r2/4 | David Canal | 21 | Spain | ESP | ||
| 7 h2 r2/4 | David Kirui | 25 | Kenya | KEN | ||
| 7 h3 r2/4 | Sofiène Laâbidi | 20 | Tunisia | TUN | ||
| 7 h4 r2/4 | Sunday Bada | 31 | Nigeria | NGR | ||
| 8 h1 r2/4 | Arnaud Malherbe | 27 | South Africa | RSA | ||
| 8 h2 r2/4 | Jun Osakada | 26 | Japan | JPN | ||
| 8 h3 r2/4 | Jude Monye | 26 | Nigeria | NGR | ||
| 8 h4 r2/4 | Ibrahim Ismail | 28 | Qatar | QAT | ||
| 4 h2 r1/4 | Neil De Silva | 30 | Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | ||
| 4 h5 r1/4 | Rohan Pradeep Kumara | 25 | Sri Lanka | SRI | ||
| 4 h6 r1/4 | Tasos Gousis | 21 | Greece | GRE | ||
| 4 h7 r1/4 | Malik Louahla | 22 | Algeria | ALG | ||
| 4 h9 r1/4 | Matija Šestak | 27 | Slovenia | SLO | ||
| 5 h1 r1/4 | Takahiko Yamamura | 21 | Japan | JPN | ||
| 5 h2 r1/4 | Gustavo Aguirre | 23 | Argentina | ARG | ||
| 5 h3 r1/4 | Tawanda Chiwira | 26 | Zimbabwe | ZIM | ||
| 5 h5 r1/4 | Salaheddine Bakar Al-Safi | 20 | Qatar | QAT | ||
| 5 h6 r1/4 | Fawzi Al-Shammari | 21 | Kuwait | KUW | ||
| 5 h7 r1/4 | Sean Baldock | 23 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 5 h8 r1/4 | Štefan Balošák | 27 | Slovakia | SVK | ||
| 5 h9 r1/4 | Tom Coman | 20 | Ireland | IRL | ||
| 6 h1 r1/4 | Carlos Santa | 22 | Dominican Republic | DOM | ||
| 6 h2 r1/4 | Troy McIntosh | 27 | Bahamas | BAH | ||
| 6 h3 r1/4 | Nduka Awazie | 19 | Nigeria | NGR | ||
| 6 h4 r1/4 | Ato Modibo | 21 | Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | ||
| 6 h5 r1/4 | Zsolt Szeglet | 23 | Hungary | HUN | ||
| 6 h6 r1/4 | Paramjit Singh | 29 | India | IND | ||
| 6 h7 r1/4 | Fabian Rollins | 24 | Barbados | BAR | ||
| 6 h8 r1/4 | Kenji Tabata | 25 | Japan | JPN | ||
| 6 h9 r1/4 | Juan Pedro Toledo | 22 | Mexico | MEX | ||
| 7 h1 r1/4 | Piotr Rysiukiewicz | 26 | Poland | POL | ||
| 7 h3 r1/4 | Johnson Kubisa | 28 | Botswana | BOT | ||
| 7 h4 r1/4 | Benjamin Youla | 24 | Congo (Brazzaville) | CGO | ||
| 7 h5 r1/4 | Jamie Baulch | 27 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 7 h6 r1/4 | Phillip Mukomana | 26 | Zimbabwe | ZIM | ||
| 7 h7 r1/4 | Oleksandr Kaidash | 24 | Ukraine | UKR | ||
| 7 h8 r1/4 | Rudy Sylvan | 21 | Grenada | GRN | ||
| 8 h1 r1/4 | Gerald Clervil | 24 | Haiti | HAI | ||
| 8 h4 r1/4 | Iliya Dzhivondov | 22 | Bulgaria | BUL | ||
| 8 h8 r1/4 | Basheer Al-Khewani | 18 | Yemen | YEM | ||
| AC h2 r1/4 | Kennedy Ochieng | 28 | Kenya | KEN | ||
| AC h2 r1/4 | Jonas Motiejūnas | 25 | Lithuania | LTU | ||
| AC h3 r1/4 | Euripidis Dimosthenous | 27 | Cyprus | CYP | ||
| AC h9 r1/4 | Daniel Batman | 19 | Australia | AUS | ||
| AC | Antonio Pettigrew | 32 | United States | USA | DQ (doping) |
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