Estonia at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Estonia at the 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	EST
NOC	Estonian Olympic Committee
Website	www.eok.ee (in Estonian)
in Sydney
Competitors	33 (31 men and 2 women) in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Tõnu Tõniste
Medals Ranked 47th	Gold 1 Silver 0 Bronze 2 Total 3
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1908–1912)  Soviet Union (1952–1988)

Estonia competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 33 competitors, 31 men and 2 women, took part in 29 events in 11 sports.^[1]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Erki Nool	Athletics	men's decathlon
Bronze	Aleksei Budõlin	Judo	men's middleweight (81 kg)
Bronze	Indrek Pertelson	Judo	men's heavyweight (+100 kg)

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Pavel Loskutov	Marathon	—						2:19:41	35

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Aleksander Tammert	Discus throw	63.52	9 Q	63.25	9
Andrus Värnik	Javelin throw	81.34	15	Did not advance

Combined events – Decathlon

Athlete	Event	100 m	LJ	SP	HJ	400 m	110H	DT	PV	JT	1500 m	Final	Rank
Erki Nool	Result	10,68	7.76	15.11	2.00	46,71	14,48	43.66	5.00	65.82	4.29,48	8641
	Points	933	1000	796	803	973	913	739	910	826	748
Indrek Kaseorg	Result	11,31	7.22	13.26	1.97	50,03	14,57	41.98	4.80	66.54	4.35,64	7932	17
	Points	793	866	683	776	813	902	705	849	837	708

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hain Helde	K-1 500 m	1.42,772	7 Q	1.45,91	9	Did not advance	25
	K-1 1000 m	3.40,407	5 Q	3.43,499	7	Did not advance	18

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Lauri Aus	Men's road race	DNF
	Men's time trial	1:02.16	32
Jaan Kirsipuu	Men's road race	5:30:46	18
Innar Mändoja		DNF
Janek Tombak		DNF
Erki Pütsep		5:30:46	55

Four fencers, all men, represented Estonia 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
Kaido Kaaberma	Individual épée	BYE	Mauricio Rivas (COL) L 13–15	Did not advance				17
Andrus Kajak		BYE	Aleksandr Poddubny (KGZ) L 13–15	Did not advance				33
Meelis Loit		Wang Weixin (CHN) W 15–7	Pavel Kolobkov (RUS) L 9–15	Did not advance				30
Meelis Loit Kaido Kaaberma Nikolai Novosjolov Andrus Kajak	Team épée	—		Hungary (HUN) L 42–45	Did not advance	BYE	9th place final  Austria (AUT) W 45–44	9

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
Aleksei Budõlin	−81 kg	BYE	Sergei Aschwanden (SUI) W 1000-0000	Krisztián Tölgyesi (HUN) W 0010-0000	Cho In-Chul (KOR) L 0000-0010	Did not advance	BYE	Florian Wanner (GER) W 1000-0000	Kazem Sarikhani (IRI) W 1000-0000	Djamel Bouras (FRA) W 0010-0000
Indrek Pertelson	+100 kg	BYE	Steeve Nguema Ndong (GAB) W 1000-0000	Ernesto Pérez (ESP) W 1000-0000	Daniel Hernandes (BRA) W 1001-0001	David Douillet (FRA) L 0000-1000	BYE			Ruslan Sharapov (BLR) W 1000-0000

Athlete	Event	Shooting (10 m air pistol)			Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Fencing (épée one touch)			Riding (show jumping)			Running (3000 m)			Total points	Final rank
		Points	Rank	MP Points	Time	Rank	MP points	Wins	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP Points
Imre Tiidemann	Men's	179	10	1084	2:18.05	23	1120	9	21	720	90	9	1010	9:23.85	5	1146	5080	14

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jüri Jaanson	Single sculls	7.06,58	3 R	7.05,16	1 Q	7:06.70	3 FA	6.59,15	6
Leonid Gulov Andrei Šilin	Double Sculls	6.41,74	4 R	6.35,09	3 Q	6.38,75	5 FB	6.22,78	9

Estonia competed in three events in the Sailing competition of the Sydney Olympics. The highest they placed in any event was 22nd.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Imre Taveter	Finn	22	22	19	17	23	22	26	23	9	21	17	172	22
Tõnu Tõniste Toomas Tõniste	470	7	14	29	17	OCS	25	16	14	21	25	18	157	22

Open

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Peter Saraskin	Laser	25	29	6	30	28	32	27	32	OCS	21	12	210	29

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Andrei Inešin	Skeet	120	19	Did not advance

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Indrek Sei	50 metre freestyle	23,11	29	Did not advance
	100 metre freestyle	52,09	43	Did not advance
Raiko Pachel	100 metre breaststroke	1.03,99	32	Did not advance
	200 metre breaststroke	2.19,71	33	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jana Kolukanova	50 metre freestyle	25,96 NR	1 Q	26,03	16	Did not advance
Elina Partõka	100 metre freestyle	57,71 NR	29	Did not advance
	200 metre freestyle	2.05,90	33	Did not advance

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
Valeri Nikitin	−69 kg	Yalouz (FRA) W PA	Hirbik (HUN) W 4–3	—	1 Q	Duguchiyev (AZE) W 4–1	Ascuy (CUB) L 0–6	Glouchkov (RUS) L 0–5	4
Toomas Proovel	−85 kg	Vahtangadze (GEO) L 4–6	Sanatbajev (KGZ) L 4–2	—	3	Did not advance			9
Helger Hallik	−130 kg	Milian (CUB) L 0–3	Hailin (CHN) L 2–3	—	3	Did not advance			16

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• International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
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• International Olympic Committee Web Site

• EOK – Sydney 2000 (in Estonian)