Kuwait at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Kuwait competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The nation won its first ever Olympic medal at these Games.

Medalists

Bronze

*Fehaid Al Deehani – Shooting, Men's Double Trap

Results by event

=Athletics=

Men's 400m
*Fawzi Al Shammari
*# Round 1 - 46.38 (did not advance)

Men's 4x400m
*Musad Al Azimi, Badar Al Fulaij, Mishal Al Harbi, Fawzi Al Shammari
*# Round 1 - DQ (did not advance)

=Football (soccer)=

Men's team competition
*Group C
** Kuwait 2:3 Cameroon
** Kuwait 3:2 Czech Republic
** Kuwait 1:3 USA

*Team Roster
** ( 1.) Shehab Kankune
** ( 2.) Naser Al-Omran
** ( 3.) Jamal Mubarak
** ( 4.) Bader Najem
** ( 5.) Abdullah Husan
** ( 6.) Nawaf Humaidan
** ( 7.) Adel Al-Anezi
** ( 8.) Nasser Al-Othman
** ( 9.) Bashar Abdulaziz
** ( 10.) Faraj Saeed
** ( 11.) Abdullah Saihan
** ( 12.) Hamad Al-Tayar
** ( 13.) Sadoun Salman
** ( 14.) Khalaf Al-Mutairi
** ( 15.) Al-Beraiky
** ( 16.) Yousef Zayed
** ( 17.) Esam Al-Kandari
** ( 18.) Nawaf Al-Khaldi

=Swimming=

Men's 100m Backstroke
*Faisal Al Mahmeed
*# Preliminary Heat - 01:05.17 (did not advance)

Men's 200m Individual Medley
*Sultan Altotaibi
*# Preliminary Heat - 02:16.23 (did not advance)

References

*Wallechinsky, David (2004). "The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition)". Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
*International Olympic Committee (2001). [http://www.gamesinfo.com.au/results/results.pdf The Results] . Retrieved 11/12/05.
*Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). [http://www.aafla.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/2000v1.pdf Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games] . Retrieved 11/20/05.
*Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). [http://www.aafla.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/2000v2.pdf Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games] . Retrieved 11/20/05.
*Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). [http://www.aafla.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Results.pdf The Results] . Retrieved 11/20/05.
* [http://www.olympic.org International Olympic Committee Web Site]