Slovakia at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Slovakia at the
2000 Summer Olympics
Slovakia at the; 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	SVK
NOC	Slovak Olympic and Sports Committee
Website	www.olympic.sk (in Slovak)
in Sydney
Competitors	114 (87 men and 27 women) in 16 sports
Flag bearer	Slavomír Kňazovický
Medals; Ranked 39th	Gold 1 Silver 3 Bronze 1 Total 5
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;
Other related appearances
	Hungary (1896–1912); Czechoslovakia (1924–1992)

Slovakia competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Pavol Hochschorner Peter Hochschorner	Canoeing	Men's slalom C-2	September 20
Silver	Martina Moravcová	Swimming	Women's 100 metre butterfly	September 17
Silver	Martina Moravcová	Swimming	Women's 200 metre freestyle	September 19
Silver	Michal Martikán	Canoeing	Men's slalom C-1	September 18
Bronze	Juraj Minčík	Canoeing	Men's slalom C-1	September 18

Athletics

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying _target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Men
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Štefan Balošák	400 m	46.42	5	did not advance
Radoslav Holúbek	400 m hurdles	51.18	7	did not advance
Igor Kollár	20 km walk	—						1:26:31	31
Igor Kováč	110 m hurdles	DNS		did not advance
Peter Korčok	50 km walk	—						3:58:46	23
Štefan Malík	50 km walk	—						3:56:44	20
Róbert Štefko	Marathon	DNF		did not advance
Peter Tichý	50 km walk	—						3:54:47	17
Róbert Valíček	20 km walk	—						1:30:46	41
Marián Vanderka	200 m	21.28	6	did not advance
Štefan Balošák Radoslav Holúbek Marcel Lopuchovský Marián Vanderka	4 × 400 m	03:09.54	27	did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Marián Bokor	Javelin throw	75.49	27	did not advance
Libor Charfreitag	Hammer throw	72.52	30	did not advance
Milan Haborák	Shot Put	20.00	6 q	19.06	11
Mikuláš Konopka	Shot Put	18.99	23	did not advance
Mikuláš Konopka	Hammer throw	70.55	32	did not advance

Women
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Zuzana Blažeková	20 km walk	—						1:44:03	43

Basketball

Women's tournament

Preliminary round

	Qualified for the quarterfinals

The four best teams from each group advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Group A

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Australia	5	0	394	274	+120	10
France	4	1	338	287	+51	9
Brazil	2	3	358	353	+5	7	1.12
Slovakia	2	3	294	282	+12	7	0.97
Canada	2	3	313	317	−4	7	0.91
Senegal	0	5	199	383	−184	5

16 September
11:30

Brazil

76–60

Slovakia

The Dome, Sydney

18 September
19:30

France

58–51

Slovakia

The Dome, Sydney

20 September
21:30

Australia

70–47

Slovakia

The Dome, Sydney

22 September
11:30

Slovakia

68–56

Canada

The Dome, Sydney

24 September
9:30

Slovakia

68–32

Senegal

The Dome, Sydney

Quarterfinals

27 September
9:30

United States

58–43

Slovakia

The Dome, Sydney

Classification matches

29 September
9:30

7th place

Slovakia

64–57

Poland

Sydney Superdome, Sydney

Team Roster

Canoeing

Slalom

Athlete	Event	Qualifying						Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Total	Rank	Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Peter Hochschorner Pavol Hochschorner	Men's C-2	132.64	1	136.49	2	269.13	1 Q	121.01	1	116.73	1	237.74
Elena Kaliská	Women's K-1	141.58	1	143.32	2	284.90	1 Q	126.68	5	129.27	5	255.95	4
Michal Martikán	Men's C-1	128.69	1	134.00	5	262.69	1 Q	119.17	5	114.59	1	233.76
Juraj Minčík	Men's C-1	133.88	4	133.28	3	267.16	4 Q	117.55	2	116.87	4	234.22
Peter Nagy	Men's K-1	129.48	12	132.68	14	262.16	12 Q	117.66	13	116.37	14	234.03	12
Gabriela Stacherová	Women's K-1	148.55	6	146.38	6	294.93	5 Q	134.02	11	134.61	11	268.63	11

Sprint

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Róbert Erban	K-1 500 m	01:43.109	4 QS	01:42.300	6	Did not advance	15
Slavomír Kňazovický	C-1 500 m	01:52.146	3 QF	BYE		02:29.613	5
Rastislav Kužel	K-1 1000 m	03:38.893	3 QS	03:43.203	5	Did not advance	16
Peter Páleš	C-1 1000 m	03:58.036	3 QF	—		04:03.091	9
Jan Kubica Mario Ostrcil	C-2 500 m	01:47.934	7 QS	01:48.749	8	Did not advance	14
Jan Kubica Mario Ostrcil	C-2 1000 m	03:40.865	5 QS	03:45.636	5	Did not advance	11
Juraj Bača Michal Riszdorfer	K-2 500 m	01:32.026	2 QS	01:31.484	4	Did not advance	10
Juraj Bača Michal Riszdorfer	K-2 1000 m	03:16.854	3 QF	BYE		03:18.325	6
Róbert Erban Richard Riszdorfer Juraj Tarr Erik Vlček	K-4 1000 m	03:00.955	2 QF	BYE		02:57.696	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Marcela Erbanova	K-1 500 m	01:55.782	6 QS	01:58.472	8	Did not advance	14

Qualification Legend: 'R = Qualify to repechage; QS = Qualify to semi-final; QF = Qualify directly to final

Cycling

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Roman Broniš	Men's road race	dnf
Milan Dvorščík		5:51:53	87
Martin Riška		5:52:47	90
Róbert Nagy		dnf

Track

Men's Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualifying round		1/16		1/16 repechage		1/8 final		1/8 repechage		Classification 9–12		Quarter-finals		Classification 5–8		Semi-finals		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jan Lepka	Men's sprint	10.530 68.378	10 Q	Eadie (AUS) L	Arrue (USA) Nagatsuka (JPN) L	did not advance

Men's Keirin

Athlete	Event	First round		First repechage		Second round		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jaroslav Jeřábek	Men's Keirin		5		3	did not advance

Team sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		First round		Final
Athlete	Event	Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Peter Bazálik Jan Lepka Jaroslav Jeřábek	Men's team sprint	45.659 59.134	7 Q	Great Britain (GBR) L 45.523 59.311	6	did not advance

Judo

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Marek Matuszek	Men's −60 kg	Voskanyan (ARM) W 1001–0010	Ayed (TUR) W 1000–0000	Nomura (JPN) L 0000–1000	—	BYE	Greczkowski (USA) L 0000–1000	did not advance		9

Football

Men's team competition

Team roster

Group D

Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	2	1	5	4	+1	6
Japan	3	2	1	4	3	+1	6
South Africa	3	1	2	5	5	0	3
Slovakia	3	1	2	4	6	−2	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

14 September 2000

19:00

Brazil	3–1	Slovakia
Edu 30' Čišovský 68' (o.g.) Alex 90+1'	Report	Porázik 26'

Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane

Attendance: 24,616

Referee: Simon Micallef (Australia)

17 September 2000

20:00

Slovakia	1–2	Japan
Porázik 83'	Report	Nakata 67' Inamoto 74'

Bruce Stadium, Canberra

Attendance: 15,289

Referee: Falla N'Doye (Senegal)

20 September 2000

20:00

Slovakia	2–1	South Africa
Czinege 64' Šlahor 72'	Report	McCarthy 75'

Bruce Stadium, Canberra

Attendance: 14,562

Referee: Mario Sánchez Yantén (Chile)

Gymnastics

Artistic

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		F	V	UB	BB	Total	Rank	F	V	UB	BB	Total	Rank
Zuzana Sekerová	All-around	8.743	9.087	9.462	7.325	34.617	59	did not advance

Rowing

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ján Žiška	Single sculls	7:26.21	4 R	7:14.31	2 SA/B	7:26.51	5 FB	7:06.96	10

Sailing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Net points	Final rank
Patrik Pollák	Mistral	11	20	27	26	17	24	25	27	21	17	30	188	26

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; CAN = Race cancelled

Shooting

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Ján Fabo	10 m air pistol	576	17	did not advance
Ján Fabo	50 m pistol	548	27	did not advance
Jozef Gönci	50 m rifle three positions	1165	8 Q'	1261.3	8
	50 m rifle prone	DNS		did not advance
	10 m air rifle	590	11	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Andrea Stranovská	Skeet	67	13	did not advance

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Miroslav Machovič	100 m backstroke	56.95	28	did not advance
Miroslav Machovič	200 m backstroke	2:04.73	31	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jana Korbašová	200 metre backstroke	2:19.37	27	did not advance
Jana Korbašová	400 metre individual medley	4:59.05	24	did not advance
Martina Moravcová	50 metre freestyle	25.39	5 Q	25.49	4 Q	25.24	5
	100 metre freestyle	55.42	4 Q	55.06	2 Q	54.72	5
	200 metre freestyle	2:00.46	8 Q	1:59.75	1 Q	1:58.32
	100 metre butterfly	58.95	6 Q	58.49	2 Q	57.97

Synchronized Swimming

Athlete	Event	Technical routine		Free routine (preliminary)			Free routine (final)
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank
Lívia Allárová Lucia Allárová	Duet	28.187	24	51.826	80.013	24 Q	did not advance

Tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Dominik Hrbatý	Singles	Ivan Ljubičić (CRO) L 1–6, 6–1, 3–6	did not advance
Karol Kučera	Singles	Tim Henman (GBR) L 6–3, 6–2	Roger Federer (SUI) L 4–6, 6–7	did not advance
Dominik Hrbatý Karol Kučera	Doubles	BYE	Satoshi Iwabuchi Thomas Shimada (JPN) W 6–4, 6–3	Massimo Bertolini Cristian Brandi (ITA) W 6–4, 6–7, 6–3	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde (AUS) L 6–7, 4–6	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Karina Habšudová	Singles	Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) W 6–3, 7–6	Conchita Martínez (ESP) W 1–6, 6–0, 6–4	Elena Dementieva (RUS) L 2–6, 1–6	did not advance
Henrieta Nagyová	Singles	Venus Williams (USA) L 2–6, 2–6	did not advance
Karina Habšudová Janette Husárová	Doubles	BYE	Cho Yoon-jeong Park Sung-hee (KOR) W 7–5, 6–7, 6–4	Els Callens Dominique Monami (BEL) L 3–6, 2–6	did not advance

Water polo

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	5	4	1	0	51	28	+23	9	Quarter Finals
2	Italy	5	4	1	0	43	32	+11	9
3	Spain	5	2	1	2	32	34	−2	5
4	Australia (H)	5	1	2	2	38	36	+2	4
5	Kazakhstan	5	1	1	3	41	46	−5	3
6	Slovakia	5	0	0	5	30	59	−29	0

Source: LA84
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
(H) Hosts

23 September 2000 10:45	Slovakia	8–11	Italy	Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre Referees: Boyer (USA), Ludecke (GER)
	Score by quarters: 0–3, 2–3, 3–2, 3–3

24 September 2000 15:45	Spain	7–6	Slovakia	Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre Referees: Clemencon (FRA), Janseen (NED)
	Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–1, 2–2, 2–0

25 September 2000 20:30	Slovakia	6–11	Australia	Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre Referees: Bookelman (NED), Boyer (USA)
	Score by quarters: 1–4, 1–3, 2–3, 2–1

26 September 2000 15:45	Kazakhstan	9–5	Slovakia	Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre Referees: Rajevic (YUG), Mendendez Betancourt (CUB)
	Score by quarters: 4–0, 1–0, 1–2, 3–3

27 September 2000 10:45	Slovakia	5–21	Russia	Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre Referees: Klaric (CRO), Janseen van de Laak (NED)
	Score by quarters: 1–7, 1–5, 1–6, 2–3

Classification 9th–12th

Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Kazakhstan	3	2	0	1	23	18	+5	5
Greece	3	1	0	2	24	20	+4	4
Netherlands	3	1	1	1	19	20	−1	3
Slovakia	3	0	3	0	24	32	−8	0

29 September 2000 10:45	Slovakia	8–9	Netherlands	Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre Referees: Bower (AUS), Moradi Shahpar (IRI)
	Score by quarters: 1–1, 2–2, 3–4, 2–2

30 September 2000 10:00	Kazakhstan	11–8	Slovakia	Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre Referees: Boyer (USA), Melliar (RSA)
	Score by quarters: 4–1, 3–1, 2–2, 2–4

1 October 2000 9:00	Slovakia	8–12	Greece	Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre Referees: Takata (USA), Moradi Shahpar (IRI)
	Score by quarters: 2–3, 4–3, 1–1, 1–5

Team Roster

Weightlifting

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Dagmar Daneková	−58 kg	82.5	11	105.0	9	187.5	9

Wrestling

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Andrej Fašánek	−58 kg	Ri Yong-sam (PRK) L 1–5	David Pogosian (GEO) L 1–5	—	3	did not advance			16
Štefan Fernyák	−63 kg	Shamil Afandiyev (AZE) L 1–6	Jang Jae-sung (KOR) L 3–13	Musa Ilhan (AUS) W 4–0	3	did not advance			8
Radion Kertanti	−76 kg	Nasir Gadzhikhanov (MKD) W 2–3	Alexander Leipold (GER) W 0–5	Yosmany Romero (CUB) W 2–3	4	did not advance			15
Peter Pecha	−130 kg	Sven Thiele (GER) L 0–10	David Musulbes (RUS) L 0–4	—	3	did not advance			16

References

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International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
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International Olympic Committee Web Site