Sport Events in September 2000
Sep. 3:
National Cricket Academy (NCA) wins the MRF Buchi Babu cricket tournament in Chennai.
Sep. 9:
Venus Williams wins the women's singles in the U.S. Open championship.
Sep. 10:
Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship.
Tejas Bakre and Koneru Humpy annex the boys' and girls' title in the Asian junior chess tournament in Mumbai.
Michael Schumacher wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza (Italy).
Sep. 13:
Viswanathan Anand of India and Xu Yuhua of China claim the men's and women's title in the North Group World Cup in Shenyang.
Sep. 15:
Sydney Olympics gets underway.
Sep. 16:
Ian Thorpe (Australia) betters his own world record in the 400 freestyle swimming event (3.40.59) in Sydney Olympics.
Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event in the Sydney Olympics.
Sep. 17:
Chetan Baboor of India loses to Petr Korbel of Czech Republic in the preliminary league of the table tennis event in the Sydney Olympics.
Simon Whitfield of Canada claims the Triathlon gold in the Olympics.
Sep. 18:
Pieter Van Den Hoogenband of Holland breaks the world record in the men's 200m freestyle in record time (1.45.35) at Sydney.
Sep. 19:
Karnam Malleswari becomes the first Indian woman to win a Olympic medal (bronze) at the Sydney Olympics.
Gopi Chand of India falls to Henderawan of Indonesia in the quarterfinals of the badminton event of the Sydney Olympics.
Sep. 22:
Americans Gary Hall Jr and Anthony Ervin finish joint first in the 50m freestyle in Sydney.
Sep. 23:
Maurice Greene and Marion Jones - both from USA, claim the men's and women's 100m gold respectively in Sydney Olympics.
Redgrave wins the roving gold for the fifth successive time at Sydney.
Sep. 24:
Naoko Takahashi becomes the first women to win an Olympic gold for Japan at Sydney.
Sep. 25:
Cathy Freeman of Australia wins the women's 400m gold at Sydney.
Kong Linghui of China claims the men's table tennis crown at Sydney.
Sep. 26:
The International Olympic Committee disqualifies Romanian gymnast Andrea Raducan- a gold medal winner following a positive dope test.
Sep. 27:
Jan Ullrich of Germany wins the gold in the men's cycling road race at Sydney.
India fails to qualify for the semifinals of the hockey tournament in Sydney Olympics. They drew with Poland after squandering a one goal lead.
Venus Williams of USA claims the women's gold in the tennis event in the Sydney Olympics.
Gurucharan Singh goes down fighting to Ukraine Andri Fedtchouk of Ukraine in the 81 Kg bout of the Olympics boxing.
Sep. 28:
Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov claims the men's gold in the tennis event of the Sydney Olympics.
Marion Jones wins the 200m gold medal at Sydney.
Fu Mingxia of China wins the women's 3m springboard title for the fourth time at Sydney.
Konstantinos Kenteris of Greece claims the men's 200 m gold in Sydney.
Sep. 29:
India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match of the Sydney Olympics.
Heike Drechsler of Germany captures the women's long jump gold at Sydney.
Nayudu Award goes to former India cricket captain, Lt. Col. Hemu Adhikari.
Sep. 30:
Felix Savon wins the gold medal, for the third successive time in the heavy weight category at Sydney.